Alert! Achtung! Warning!

by patio34 19 Replies latest jw friends

  • patio34
    patio34

    Now call me stupid (but not to my face), but I did not realize that if one types in, say, "patio34" on a search engine, my threads come up. Now, I knew this was a public forum, but not that someone from the "outside" of our community could simply eavesdrop on what I may have said.

    I bring this up because I did start a thread about a person and that person could, if they suspected it, find it on the huge web!! They could realize this because my e-mail name is the same as my name here. @$^%$!!

  • Brummie
    Brummie

    Stupid (but not to your face)

  • Been there
    Been there

    Me thinks you better turn around.

  • patio34
  • ballistic
    ballistic

    I have brought this issue up before. You are unfortunate because you have a unique "word" as a handle. Typing in ballistic brings up 1000s of web pages devoted to ballistic missiles, people going ballistic and so on.

    However, you can find just about anybody here including myself, if you do a search on <your name> Jehovah. (two words in the same search).

  • patio34
    patio34

    Thanks Ballistic. I had very little experience on the net before joining this board, otherwise I wouldn't have had the same name for e-mail and here. I'm sorry I missed your thread on it. If I had a different name here -- I may ask Simon about changing it, then someone receiving my email wouldn't make the connection.

    Pat

  • lauralisa
    lauralisa

    Hi Patio

    OH MY GOD. I just did a search on my username. I'm not sure whether to be amused or to have a cow right now.

    Yikes! There's a "model" with my name and vital statistics.... and she's not an 'escort'... jeez

    My brother was not shot by an italian either

    The internet: JUNGLE

    not stupid either but needing to adjust my assumptions about people in general AGAIN, lauralisa

  • patio34
    patio34

    LOL Lauralisa!

    I'm glad I'm not the only one then! And about that Italian shooter . . .

    Pat

  • patio34
    patio34

    On second thought . . . I am the only one because I used the same name as my e-mail. And answering and personal ads then would give a saavy savvy (I always misspell that!) user a lot more information than you may want.

    Pat

    Edited by - patio34 on 9 February 2003 12:42:14

  • Trotafox
    Trotafox

    I typed in mine in a search and came up with this....scarey.

    http://medlem.spray.se/aaac/kokemuksia.html

    Trot

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