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Field Marshal: Big Sister is Watching You

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    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 16th 2009
     
    Someone emailed a link to me for an online service that can search people's social networking accounts, email, and blogs and give the searcher information about them. It's free; all you have to do is register and import your email address list, and they do the rest.

    All the marketing literature on the site encourages going behind people's backs, hacking into their private accounts, and gathering information you can publish in order to confront or embarrass them. Just dying to expose your ex? Want to humiliate the popular girl at school? If you've got an email address for them, you have the power.

    Am I wrong to be appalled by this? Not surprised, but appalled that they're marketing deceit and dishonesty as desirable traits. There's a big picture on the site's home page of 5 girls whispering to one another in a line, and the girl on the right has an expression of surprise. What are we coming to?
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    You are really NOT wrong to be appalled. In fact, it's absolutely horrendous. I mean, this whole social networking thing bothers people because it could be abused for evil purposes, but usually people tend to use it nicely, and here comes a site putting people's paranoia as their flagpole! Unbelievable. This is what's wrong with human society.
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    Will it hack into the past in a screenwriter's chatroom or just the membership of the screenwriter's organization? Hmmmmmmm? What is the link for this info stuff?
    Inquiring minds want to know.

    By the way, this is the only forum where I post, although I do have a facebook.
    But I am seldom on there and it's not with this Fanny name.

    oh crap, I just remembered I have a twitter account under this name and I keep forgetting to post on there. Do they delete your account for inactivity?

    uh-oh, I also got in trouble before I was on this forum, in the Paul McCartney forum. But not under this name. hehehehehehe.
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 17th 2009
     
    I don't know about chatrooms. It says it accesses information from 48 different social networks. I don't know if Ning is one of them, either, but some of us post over on John Cleese's Ning social network (the blog page).

    You have to give them your email address in order to get an account on this site, the link to which I refuse to post. Since most social networks and public forums require your email address when you sign up, you're probably screwed if someone wants to look you up. If you want information on someone else, you have to give them the person's email address.

    I did register on the site to see how easy it was to access information from it, but I made a new gmail account just to be on the safe side. When I found out I had to give them my friends' email addresses, I immediately requested to have my account deleted. They're giving me some hassle over it.

    Twitter doesn't delete your account for inactivity.
 

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