05-08-2014, 07:35 AM
(05-08-2014, 06:58 AM)Ridem32_imp Wrote: Well I don't have Facebook. And don't plan on getting it. My wife. & kids have it lol. But I live just like I did in the 70, s I don't care if people know where I live what difference does it make ?? Even with out space age computers if I wanted to find someone I would find them. Simple as that. I don't live in fear of the internet of people knowing where I live.That's romantic and a great point of view, but as a guy who starting developing web content nearly 20 years ago, I have a different perspective.heck come on by for a visit
GOOD DAY !
Michael
Yep, back in our day, people had their addresses in the phone book. However, the phone book was not available to 1 billion people. Those not in your immediate community did not know of you and had no reason to look you up.
The world has changed and we have to change with it or be exposed to a lot more risk. That's the reality. And I am not talking about TV, since I stopped watching it about 15 years ago. Just look up "Heartbleed" or "Target breach" for starters.
These days, in the age of the WWW/Internet, not only can we look up things all over the world, we can connect with millions of people in the click of a mouse. And those millions of people can connect with us.
Not all of those millions are going to abide by a handshake and a square deal, nor will they embrace the four freedoms. In the 70's, 60's, 50's, and so on, our individual world comprised just ourselves, our families, and at most a few dozen folks who knew us well. Take our neighbors and coworkers and add them up, we don't have a large number. Maybe, for someone very popular, we might regularly come into personal contact with a few dozen people. Of those few dozen, no one can tell me that every single one is going to be trustworthy. Every person has a coyote or two in their back yard, and usually a family member or two with whom they don't see eye to eye (otherwise why do we hear so much of Thanksgiving rancor?). School and work rivalries, workplace intrigues, the list goes on and on.
Now multiply those odds across the web. Every time we post something, there will always be someone that disagrees, somewhere. Flame wars have erupted across the "Interwebs" over the most trivial sorts of things. If we take the exponential nature of the web, we've taken those few dozen folks that used to make up our personal community, and turned them into tens of thousands. The odds of one or more of those having less than noble intentions increases.
Any number of garage break-ins and thefts of personal items, particularly bicycles, for example, have been traced to the use of online social networking sites. Members posted GPS tracks of rides they had taken, which included their start/end point. Often that was their home address! Yes, they did it without thinking, and a rash of thefts resulted.
The world doesn't operate on a handshake any longer, it operates on "Privacy Policies" of several thousand words, crafted by litigators who have their client's interests in mind, not ours.