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No one cares who you are on the internet. If you're paranoid that someone is going to track you down based on your name, you need to GTFO the internet ASAP.
Well you don't care who I am and the other way around. But if I google my name with friends just for fun and come across a post of me flaming some idiot on the Bnet forums it sure is a whole different feeling than when my future boss does it.
I don't think people really fear being slaughtered by fanatic internet trolls that wield guns IRL. But why take the risk? If there was at least a good reason to this proposition (as it luckily turned out to be) some people might think differently about it. But the only thing this will help is the abolishment of internet privacy and not even a Steven Bonnell can convince me that he does not care about that.
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The point is Stephen that your profile on facebook is not safe for your family and by allowing people to know your name they can pull up specific information on you and your family. You probably need to tweek your account to give them more privacy.
Tuck the pride away and keep your friends and family safe.
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I'm aware of that story and numerous other interventions of the real world into the internet and visa versa.
Schools have a fairly significant amount of control over their employees and students. There was a recent case regarding a girl calling a chick a slut off campus and posting it on face book who was given detention. (Which was ultimately overturned) Then there was bong hits 4 jesus.
There's literally nothing about me on the internet I haven't already told my boss either in casual conversation or otherwise. It's just not something I, personally, have to worry about because I know that since day 1 of posting stuff online it could be tracked down or more likely I'd be sharing it. If I didn't want to share it, I wouldn't have any reason to put it on the internet.
As for "job with merit", I hope you're not implying those of us with employers who allow us to have personal lives without breaking into it don't have jobs with merit.
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On July 07 2010 04:42 Steven.Bonnell.II wrote:Show nested quote +On July 07 2010 04:39 vesicular wrote:On July 07 2010 04:35 Steven.Bonnell.II wrote:
Congratulations, but now what? The point I'm making is that looking up that information is trivial. Anyone can find out that information about you in many different ways.
No one cares who you are on the internet. If you're paranoid that someone is going to track you down based on your name, you need to GTFO the internet ASAP. Some of us would just rather not share our names, but might have something to contribute to the battle.net community. Why is wrong to want the option to not share our names? I think that's all people are asking for and it's not an unreasonable request. I'm not saying it's "wrong", it's just silly to be paranoid about sharing your first and last name when things like your IP is freely viewable, not to mention there are so many areas of your life where your name is available (phone book, job, friends, family, etc...).
And you don't see how all of those can cause problems. I'm unlisted in the phone book ofc it's like extortion i have to pay them to remove it lol.
Also to the avg end user your IP is not freely viewable that's only to blizzard. I'm letting blizzard see and information in agreement that they wont abuse it which this is.
On July 07 2010 04:44 Mulloy wrote:I'm aware of that story and numerous other interventions of the real world into the internet and visa versa. Schools have a fairly significant amount of control over their employees and students. There was a recent case regarding a girl calling a chick a slut off campus and posting it on face book who was given detention. (Which was ultimately overturned) Then there was bong hits 4 jesus. There's literally nothing about me on the internet I haven't already told my boss either in casual conversation or otherwise. It's just not something I, personally, have to worry about because I know that since day 1 of posting stuff online it could be tracked down or more likely I'd be sharing it. If I didn't want to share it, I wouldn't have any reason to put it on the internet. As for "job with merit", I hope you're not implying those of us with employers who allow us to have personal lives without breaking into it don't have jobs with merit.
Not all jobs care about what you do out side of work some do doesn't mean the other job is shitty, i was just using the word merit as a job who's status is often used in other works for validity such as a university professor.
Not everyone is so forget full or forgiving anymore people use shit in your past as reasons not to give you the money or the job etc.
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On July 07 2010 04:42 SexyBimbo wrote:
But if I google my name with friends just for fun and come across a post of me flaming some idiot on the Bnet forums it sure is a whole different feeling than when my future boss does it.
Isn't this exactly what they are trying to discourage you from doing?
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On July 07 2010 04:32 kajeus wrote:Show nested quote +On July 07 2010 04:29 moyk wrote:I too would be quick to scrap the idea that they've supposedly spent "given a great deal of consideration to" if it was getting flamed this much in just mere hours after its announcement. Then you don't know too much about how people respond to edgy new things. (Hint: They often HATE them.)
How exactly is unnecessarily displaying people's name to the public an "edgy new thing"? It's not -- it's merely raising raising potential issues hence why it's being met with such a huge outcry on this and other forums.
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I really dislike the way blizzard is going with the real life stuff.
I mean facebook, realID, it's just dumb. My internet and gaming life is something I'd like to keep separate from my private life, and I don't think it's fair to be forced to reveal my name to post on a forum. So I guess I just wont be posting there.
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They should really add social security number next to names so people arent confused when the same name occurs twice, or i wont be posting there. I would hate to be confused with someone else. Honestly, i think it would be a good idea if there was a separate set of forums just for it, rather than making all of the sc2 forums real name. Let the customers choose.
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Blizzard needs to go back to not announcing anything ever until it's about to ship.
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battle.net forums suck. end of story. don't even bother to use them...
omg 500 posts :D
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On July 07 2010 04:42 Steven.Bonnell.II wrote:
I'm not saying it's "wrong", it's just silly to be paranoid about sharing your first and last name when things like your IP is freely viewable, not to mention there are so many areas of your life where your name is available (phone book, job, friends, family, etc...).
It might be silly, but it's should still be a choice and up to the user. Yes we have the choice of not posting there, but that makes the bnet forums worse, not better.
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On July 07 2010 04:47 Kennigit wrote:
Blizzard needs to go back to not announcing anything ever until it's about to ship.
Apparently they don't have like press filters or something, just someone to run this idea's by before they announce it.
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wow look how many pages this thread has
Well come on blizzard what do you expect...? Is this all apart of your grand plan..? -.-
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On July 07 2010 04:47 Kennigit wrote:
Blizzard needs to go back to not announcing anything ever until it's about to ship.
This. For real.
I don't know I don't see the uproar. But it is what it is, I am apparently one of very few people that is not scared of my own name.
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You guys are funny if you really think the average employer is going to do searches on the internet for your name...
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On July 07 2010 04:42 Razor[cF] wrote:
The point is Stephen that your profile on facebook is not safe for your family and by allowing people to know your name they can pull up specific information on you and your family. You probably need to tweek your account to give them more privacy.
Tuck the pride away and keep your friends and family safe.
A couple of clicks in the "Privacy" section of Facebook can prevent non-friends from viewing your friends list and just about any other piece of information.
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On July 07 2010 04:50 Steven.Bonnell.II wrote:
You guys are funny if you really think the average employer is going to do searches on the internet for your name...
Actually it happens a lot. But I guess it depends on what you're trying to hide. Not doing anything wrong? Than no worries.
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huge blunder. i hope blizzard sees this thread
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