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ScienceRob
United States382 Posts
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l10f
United States3241 Posts
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Husky
United States3362 Posts
On July 07 2010 09:41 iCCup.Diamond wrote: I have one simple question to everyone here. How is is not MORE dangerous to hand out my business card at work which has my cell phone # and full name on there? At the place where I am every single day. Have you printed off enough business cards to hand out to each and every person who has access to the internet? | ||
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iEchoic
United States1776 Posts
On July 07 2010 09:41 iCCup.Diamond wrote: I have one simple question to everyone here. How is is not MORE dangerous to hand out my business card at work which has my cell phone # and full name on there? At the place where I am every single day. That's not linked to your online activities outside of work. Start putting all your online aliases on your business card and then it might be a fair comparison. | ||
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Slow Motion
United States6960 Posts
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Diamond
United States10796 Posts
On July 07 2010 09:45 Vimsey wrote: Your business card doesnt have that you like voilent sports or that you smoke pot or that you play wow 10 hours a day. I has your business address on it and your business phone number and business email. At least mine does. I give it to who I want to give it to. And why do I care if anyone knows this info? I will tell ANYONE why I love MMA and why it's awesome. I had my leg chopped in half so I'm legally allowed to use pot for pain medicine and I don't play WoW. | ||
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MadduX
United States515 Posts
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kajeus
United States679 Posts
On July 07 2010 09:45 Vimsey wrote: Your business card doesnt have that you like voilent sports or that you smoke pot or that you play wow 10 hours a day. I has your business address on it and your business phone number and business email. At least mine does. I give it to who I want to give it to. What's to stop me from googling your name and phone number? I bet I could find your home address in a phone book, online or paper. If you don't want to be associated with your 10-hour wow habit, don't post about your 10-hour wow habit on the official wow forums. Maybe confine yourself to tech support and customer service stuff. | ||
Myles
United States5162 Posts
On July 07 2010 09:47 iCCup.Diamond wrote: And why do I give two shits if anyone knows this info? I will tell ANYONE why I love MMA and why it's awesome. I had my leg chopped in half so I'm legally allowed to use pot for pain medicine and I don't play WoW. And this is how these kinds of things happen. You don't care about people knowing your personal information. Other people do. | ||
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Disastorm
United States922 Posts
I suppose it would be pretty cool if all the ESPORTS guys all created new Bnet accounts and made their names ESPORTS ESPORTS and started posting all over the official boards. | ||
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iEchoic
United States1776 Posts
On July 07 2010 09:47 iCCup.Diamond wrote: And why do I give two shits if anyone knows this info? I will tell ANYONE why I love MMA and why it's awesome. I had my leg chopped in half so I'm legally allowed to use pot for pain medicine and I don't play WoW. This is where we need more information that I don't care to ask for. In a lot of fields, your employer knowing you smoke pot is going to make you much less likely to get hired. If you work as a bouncer for a club, then whatever. If you work as an elementary school teacher and that information is readily available it can ruin your career. | ||
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Vimsey
United Kingdom2235 Posts
On July 07 2010 09:42 Shirolol wrote: Do you have any windows in your house? Glass isn't a very tough thing to get through you know. If someone wanted to get into your house they could whether you locked the door or not, they could actually go through your locked door if they really wanted to. But you don't seem to be worried about that, so why are you so worried about this? If you dont lock your house then the insurance wont pay for anything stolen. The same if you dont lock your car. Yea you could say what is the point of locking it when i have glass windows but insurances and burglars dont see it quite that way. | ||
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RodrigoX
United States645 Posts
On July 07 2010 09:47 MadduX wrote: Someone should make a poll to find out how many TL members actually even post on official bnet forums. If you don't want your name on their forums, just don't post on them. See but that decision shouldnt be there. At least not because of your name. Like I decide whether to be part of a community if I think its cool or not. I dont make the decision based on whether I want everyone to know my real name. It just doesnt make sense. On July 07 2010 09:45 HuskyTheHusky wrote: Have you printed off enough business cards to hand out to each and every person who has access to the internet? the 1.3 billion right? | ||
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Clamev
Germany498 Posts
On July 07 2010 09:47 MadduX wrote: Someone should make a poll to find out how many TL members actually even post on official bnet forums. If you don't want your name on their forums, just don't post on them. It is not just about the forum Today, we wanted to give you a heads up about our plans for Real ID on our official forums, discuss the design philosophy behind the changes we’re making, I don´t think that´s the end of realid | ||
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Narf
United Kingdom6 Posts
On July 07 2010 09:37 InfiniteIce wrote: I submitted the story to CNN via http://www.cnn.com/feedback/tips/newstips.html I fully expect 500 pages by the time i return No, but seriously. This needs public attention. I just did the same for the bbc (uk news). It's like the data protection act doesn't exist anymore... | ||
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ScienceRob
United States382 Posts
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Pandu1986
72 Posts
Customer privacy should be at the top of any businesses agenda. Its not simply an issue about some disgruntled person coming to find you, its more about the avenues that sharing your full name with the internet brings. Think back to the days when people would just type their e-mails out directly, what happened then? There were spam bots that crawled any public forums, and would start spamming you with horrendous amounts of junk mail. With your real name displayed, whats to stop said company from finding your address, which can easily be obtained from just your name, e-mail address and a few other easily discoverable items, and start sending you unwanted mail, try to commit identify fraud, try to vote on your behalf, try to take a mortgage on your name. All of these things while they sound far fetched are within the realm of possibilities. Then there is always the issue of what to do about minors, those above the age of 13, but not above 18, who is going to protect their privacy? In summary, I believe blizzard is making a huge mistake with this and if it goes through in its unaltered state they will definitely reap the consequences when their "community" shrinks accordingly. | ||
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Vimsey
United Kingdom2235 Posts
On July 07 2010 09:47 iCCup.Diamond wrote: And why do I care if anyone knows this info? I will tell ANYONE why I love MMA and why it's awesome. I had my leg chopped in half so I'm legally allowed to use pot for pain medicine and I don't play WoW. As I said I wouldnt get into too many fights they might not see your love for MMA in the same way. Or if an ex girlfriend with an axe to grind accuses you of hitting her. Its just an example of how your internet trail can be used against you. | ||
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Diamond
United States10796 Posts
On July 07 2010 09:51 ScienceRob wrote: Diamond, you are not everyone. Some people are trying to get jobs, and companies will google their name, as many managers can attest to. Even in this day and age gamers will retain that stigma of being lazy to a degree. I don't have to extrapolate this anymore do I? Many people want to keep their real life segregated from their online life. It is quite simple and easy. I think you are intelligent enough to try to see where other people are coming from and understand why they are feeling the way they feel. Than why post on the b.net forums. Avoid them and use TL. Seems pretty basic to me. It's not like they hire someone to hold a gun to your head until you post on there. | ||
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Sherbople
Canada158 Posts
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