vulchor: I only meant that if your facebook profile showed the things that Tarnicus claimed it showed, that would be very troubling. I did not attempt to locate your private profile, and Tarnicus let me know that he showed you how to make it private so that people can't glean personal information about you. That is all.
Now, I do want to counter your opinion that he 'exploited' your private profile. NO facebook profile is private. To assume so is very naive. Any information stored on someone else's server may not be considered private. Just ask the FBI, CIA, and NSA ;)
In all seriousness, I can't fault anyone for finding information out about a person from their facebook profile unless they hacked into the profile to obtain said information. Human Resource departments, journalists, private detectives, the police, politicians, school teachers, etc... they do it all the time. It is up the user to set their privacy settings, not up to humanity to not be curious.
Ungunbu: yes but imagine a newcomer that finds the community and discovers that someone is going to investigate his life through social networs so that -- if he discovers something he judges to be "bad" -- he will be publicly "dishonored" on the forums...
That wasn't my point Ung. My point was that it is human nature to be curious, or worse (as you imply here, which is valid), so that's why it's important to have good privacy settings, however still don't ever assume that your profile that is stored on the servers of a for-profit corporation is private or that it even, in any legal sense, belongs to you.
Now, these forums are public, and anything said in public can be judged, correctly or incorrectly, fairly or unfairly. It's just part of the risk that goes along with living in a free society.
Personally, I don't find any of this too troubling from a new comer's perspective. But I am not everyone. There's plenty of things on these forums that, if an individual is especially predisposed towards that way of thinking, could be very turned off by. Hell, I made a joke about drowning cats in the insomnia sale thread because I was very sleep deprived. Now, granted, I'm taking my own joke out of context, but people will always take things out of context and choose to be offended.
That's another good point to accidentally stumble upon. Being offended is a choice. I'm also really sleepy so I'm gonna let this thread go back to the ninjas. Please control the aim of all shurikens until I vacate. G'night everyone that is still reading, if that's anyone at all.
