But I don't want you to know who I am!

[€uroMeinke]

Interesting

I do wonder how one would be expected to enforce it. You caould require it part of registration, but what do you verify the information against? I suspect an awful lot of John Smiths and M. Bormans to sign up.

On the other hand, here on LoT there are few of you that I don't know personally, so privacy in some ways has already been forfieted.

I think what troubles me most about this kind of thing is that the lines between home and work are getting fuzzy and the workplace is creeping more into the home and limiting speach in ways governments cannot (i.e. terminating employees that talk about their workplace). Already I've heard too many stories of that kind of thing happening.

I think we need more safe havens than our lawyers, priests, and doctors for us to be able to talk freely about our lives without fear of retribution.

[Prudence]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

I think what troubles me most about this kind of thing is that the lines between home and work are getting fuzzy and the workplace is creeping more into the home and limiting speach in ways governments cannot (i.e. terminating employees that talk about their workplace). Already I've heard too many stories of that kind of thing happening.

Heck, workplaces are limiting speech and behavior outside the workplace, even when the speech/behavior isn't particularly related to their work. We're marching down the road to "we just don't want that type of person associated with my business." Hell, if the taxpayers ever saw the contents of my bedside cabinet I'm sure there'd be an expose on the nightly news. Happened to someone I know.

[Drince88]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Interesting

I do wonder how one would be expected to enforce it. You caould require it part of registration, but what do you verify the information against? I suspect an awful lot of John Smiths and M. Bormans to sign up..

Well, it didn't say you had to DO anything with it? Like taking a photocopy of your Social Security Card when you start a new job - I don't believe there is any requirement to actually CHECK it against a database. (Maybe there is now, but I don't think there was initially)

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

On the other hand, here on LoT there are few of you that I don't know personally, so privacy in some ways has already been forfieted.

But (in my case, anyway) I would not have started posting on any internet message board without an initial anonymity to it. And I've only met a couple of people in person, so that means I give up my privacy to ALL? And THIS is a manageable size community - what about the mega-boards (I've been posting on the Disboards recently because I want to rent points - yikes that place is huge!) - I MAY have met a couple of people on that board only because of their association with other boards, does that mean I give up my privacy to ALL of them?

[alphabassettgrrl]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

On the other hand, here on LoT there are few of you that I don't know personally, so privacy in some ways has already been forfieted.

I think what troubles me most about this kind of thing is that the lines between home and work are getting fuzzy and the workplace is creeping more into the home and limiting speach in ways governments cannot

Meeting people from the boards is not forfeiting your privacy. You can choose to stay a screen-name and never meet anybody in real life. I think requiring your real name and address would indeed be the end of message boards. Possibly if it were closed, only accessible to members... no, not even then. There are too many wack jobs in cyberspace, and I don't want them being able to look up where I live. I have tried very hard to keep a low cyber-profile.

It's a conveniance sometimes to be able to find people through directory assistance or the web, but if a friend can find me, so can a wacko. Not a happy prospect. Luckily I'm not the type that people look up, nor am I worthy of note on the 'net.

I think if companies get bent out of shape over what people do in their off time they'd have few employees. Maybe if something comes to their attention, but really, if you go looking? A whole lot of us have skeletons in our closets. I've probably got enough for a chorus line.

I'm sure it's happening, but there does need to be a limit.

[innerSpaceman]

Ooop, looks like Lisa must have taken over my typing fingers.

[Isaac]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Ooop, looks like Lisa must have taken over my typing fingers.

Shhh!!!! Don't say her name !

Call her 'Kindly tall woman of tangly red hair'.

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by zapppop

Shhh!!!! Don't say her name !

Call her 'Kindly tall woman of tangly red hair'.

The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh


Yeah, maybe I'm tired, but that was my first thought.

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Yeah, maybe I'm tired, but that was my first thought.

oh kindly tall lady of tangly hair, won't you please tell us next of the Laidly Toad of Bamborough Keep?

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

oh kindly tall lady of tangly hair, won't you please tell us next of the Laidly Toad of Bamborough Keep?

ok

[Isaac]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh

Hehehe.. I smell a LoT parody...