Good guys ride CB1100

[rboe]

Zip code is about 17 miles off, best it can do is show that I'm in Phoenix. Hardly an address.

[Ridem32_imp]

I can find you Rboe. I will just ride around Phoenix till I find a CB1100. Lol

[Guth_imp]

The type of plug-in I've been looking for would work locally within the forum software interface and would be of the interactive type. It would allow members (those who wish to do so anyway) to plot their location on a global map. No location information would be automatically posted in such a situation. Sadly, it might be a while before I find such a solution.

In the meantime, I suppose we can all focus on less risky endeavors — like riding motorcycles?

[Ridem32_imp]

Rboe. I have not seen a single cb1100 on the road in Mississippi at all. When I stop to get gas, banks etc everyone looks at my bike. Some has said you did a great job restoring that that old Honda

[Tortuga_imp]

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. heck come on by for a visit I had rather keep on living as I do with a handshake and a mans word is better than gold! That's just me. I really don't think no crazy person will come to get me just because they know where I live due to being on a forum. As Paul Harvey would say
GOOD DAY !
Michael

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.

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.

I suppose with the wrath and venom I've attracted for sharing my unpopular (with a minority) point of view, I can expect a horde of vengeful assailants turning up at my gaff anytime soon! See illustration below (pinched from World War Z)

Yea red mist I do know what your saying but to me we still human! My son is way high in the computer world working at the Mississippi Supreme Court on computers etc. As far me I still live the same. Me. & wife live alone with lots of land ! We don't even own a house key! I will by no means change my way of life due to computer age. I do like eBay and my bike forums but as far as everyday life I'm still me. My son my daughter and all their friends get a kick out of me. Most saying dang you got it made and live life so simple while everyone else is all caught up in the new age. It's all good I do like my new age 2014 CB1100 red deluxe But I will still trade a chicken, or goat etc for whatever lol. Life's as good as you make it . I'm like you as far as bikes. & not watching TV. When wife not home I never turn TV on. To many remotes lol. To be honest nothing good to watch. Again I say great great forum!
Michael

From my point of view, therein lies the problem. We're all human. We're only human. Not necessarily humane.

Trust but verify.

From my point of view, therein lies the problem. We're all human. We're only human. Not necessarily humane.

Trust but verify.

I am with Red Mist on this issue of PerSec. Keep the information you leak to a minimum. Ferret knows my first name, and I.P. as will Guth have access to that.

I don't think either of these are a threat to me.

However, I would not take a picture of my bike outside my house for example and post it, nor as one guy did show his commute to work including addresses, for which Red Mist intervened and pointed out the implications.

I am VERY security conscious, partly because of my job all those years ago and partly because I've seen the world change and people have less regard for others privacy or property.

When I was in Italy this week, my bike was locked with several high security bike locks, in an alarmed garage, in a house with enormous security locks on all doors, and CCTV recording day and night (with infra red).

O.k I'm probably a little paranoid, but I like it that way.

I also have breakdown cover for that very occasion, and wouldn't offer a bed to some dude I'd met on a forum if he was passing through. Just the way I am I guess.

And if you couldn't already tell, I don't want to be on the map either.

[the Ferret]

For some of us raised in little rural Mayberry's in the US, all this security stuff is just hard to fathom. I understand completely where Ridem is coming from. I just started locking my doors and stuff a couple years ago at the urging of my brother who is a security nut. He can't believe I don't want to carry a gun everywhere I go.

Maybe if I lived in an urban environment, downtown Cinti for example I would have a different attitude. Out where I live it just doesn't seem so necessary. I would hate living in fear all the time.

[Tortuga_imp]

For some of us raised in little rural Mayberry's in the US, all this security stuff is just hard to fathom. I understand completely where Ridem is coming from. I just started locking my doors and stuff a couple years ago at the urging of my brother who is a security nut. He can't believe I don't want to carry a gun everywhere I go.

Maybe if I lived in an urban environment, downtown Cinti for example I would have a different attitude. Out where I live it just doesn't seem so necessary. I would hate living in fear all the time.

Maybe I'm too much like your brother Ferret, but I'd say if I didn't have all the security measures then I would be living in fear. I guess it's horses for courses.

[the Ferret]

I understand where you are coming from as well Tortuga

[Cormanus]

For some of us raised in little rural Mayberry's in the US, all this security stuff is just hard to fathom. I understand completely where Ridem is coming from. I just started locking my doors and stuff a couple years ago at the urging of my brother who is a security nut. He can't believe I don't want to carry a gun everywhere I go.

Maybe if I lived in an urban environment, downtown Cinti for example I would have a different attitude. Out where I live it just doesn't seem so necessary. I would hate living in fear all the time.

Maybe I'm too much like your brother Ferret, but I'd say if I didn't have all the security measures then I would be living in fear. I guess it's horses for courses.

Do you carry a gun everywhere you go? Such a thing would be unthinkable for most people in Australia.

Go Ferret!

[emptysea]

You all are overthinking this. All you need is a rough idea of a person's location, voluntarily submitted, along with some means of contacting that person (which is already available here through the messaging feature). If this info was plotted on a clickable map by state, province, or other larger geographic region, that would be convenient, but a thread broken down by country, then region (state, etc.) with the user's name would provide all the info we are requesting without disclosing anyone's exact location.