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Posted by SpiKeRs on Thu Oct 6th at 11:03pm 2005

What do you guys feel about the idea of putting yourself out there on the internet? I dont mean that in some dodgy way, its just a lot of my friends are perfectly happy to put up pictures of themselves (irrelevent how much of a mess they may look) on photo places, blogs, mySpace etc. And speaking of the latter, they have all suddenly become really keen on it, sprouting their opinions and views and feelings, etc etc on there. I personally dont like the idea of that at all, I dont want random people who I have never met checking out my details, tastes and personal feelings tbh. But yeah, just curious whats your thoughts on this sort of thing?



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Posted by Captain P on Thu Oct 6th at 11:26pm 2005

For once, I wouldn't want my inner feelings to be out there. There's some things you just keep to yourself (and hopefully have a good friend to share with).

Other than that, a developer diary when you're working on a map or things like that are something else for me. That sounds like a nice idea and could even be helpfull to others by giving them insight in the design process. Dave Johnston for example does this, and I found quite some posts very inspiring. Never knew he was about to stop mapping 2 times! I thouhgt I had worse with my mapping block last holiday!

Pictures? Nah, not really. Unless you've got a little community or such to share them with but not for open public. I often look bad on pictures anyway...


// EDIT: Never realised you were Spikers I saw some maps from at TWHL, and whose site I checked for articles... heh, nice to realise... <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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Posted by Nickelplate on Fri Oct 7th at 12:00am 2005

I like Blogs and stuff, some of them are really funny. And as for sharing pictures, I like to, because girls tell me I'm attractive most of the time. I take pretty good pictures.


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Posted by satchmo on Fri Oct 7th at 12:04am 2005

I've been blogging for many years now, almost since the blogging movement started. In fact, I kept a website about my personal details even before the word "blog" was invented.

I don't mind sharing my thoughts with others, but I still keep it pretty much anonymous. Virtually no one knows my real name online, and only recently did I start posting pictures of myself on the internet.

I only maintain my anonymity to protect my professional life. I wouldn't want my employer reading what I write in my blog. Otherwise, I couldn't be as candid as I am writing in it.




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Posted by Nickelplate on Fri Oct 7th at 12:09am 2005

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess your real name is "Dr. Lee" or "Dr. Chan" No offense meant, of course. But those are pretty good guesses eh?


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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Fri Oct 7th at 1:10am 2005

About as good as guessing your last name was Smith.

Anyway -- I've been keeping on online journal for five years now, and I've backed it up on Word and its at 179 pages now size 12 Times New Roman.

I started because it was a way to keep up on the lives of many of my friends. Most of them quit using it eventually, but a couple of my friends still do entries now and again. The more personal reflections and typical journally type writing I usually mark as private, but some of the funny things that happen to me I make public written as if my friend (or strangers) were to read them.

I don't have a problem with anyone else keeping an online journal. I personally just try to be discerning with what I share to the general online browser.




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Posted by ReNo on Fri Oct 7th at 1:26am 2005

I kinda get why people do it, but I don't read them personally. I'm sure there are a great deal of interesting blogs out there, but there is also a great deal of poorly written, trivial, and boring ones as well. Par for the course I guess - anything of the sort is always going to have the good, the bad, and the ugly <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">

I kinda lie really, as I guess I do read one or two "blogs" in a sense. Penny Arcade is as much a blog as it is a web comic, and I read it as much for Tycho and Gabe's ever interesting news and thoughts about the games industry / world as I do for the humours strips themselves. I've also been known to read a few game developer's blogs from time to time, but it tends to be a one off thing as opposed to things I follow. For the most part though, I don't really care that Joe Blogg's (coincidental pun, hurrah!) girlfriend is a total whore who lies and cheats and breaks his heart weekly, so anything of the sort just utterly fails to grip me. Hopefully though, random internet person number 2305 wasn't his target audience <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">




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Posted by Crono on Fri Oct 7th at 3:37am 2005

Well, I have one, but I don't use it all that often. It's a really good way to get messages out to your "circle" pretty easily.

Also, you must realize, it's by no means public always. You can set it up so that only one user on the entire planet besides yourself could read your posts. Well, unless someone gets their information, which is something completely different. (Or if the servers themselves get successfully attacked).

But that's all speculative.

Even if you have your "journal", "Blog", whatever, public, there's usually an option to have it NOT caches/booked/logged/whatever by search engines ... so unless someone knows your user name or they find you through interests you put in ... no one's going to find it ... realistically speaking of course.

But, using them for posting up LAN dates is really nice. Hell, even voting on what to play before the event, and it's all kept nice and neat right there on your account. They're also nice to have a private forum, so to speak, for projects.

But, unless you really have a use for them .. they're pointless (like everything else)


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Posted by satchmo on Fri Oct 7th at 5:07am 2005

I basically use it as a diary. Some of my friends from high school and college actually read it, and I do try to post only interesting things on it.

And people at work call me Dr. Lee all the time. I am, of course, not Dr. Lee. In fact, my real name seems more appropriate for a Caucasian girl than anything. I get adolescent girls scheduled with me all the times for pelvic and breast exams,. Only when I walked in to the exam room did they realize that I am a male doctor.



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Posted by Nickelplate on Fri Oct 7th at 5:23am 2005

Dr. Courtney? Dr. Ashley? Dr. Kelly?


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Posted by Gaara on Fri Oct 7th at 8:27am 2005

Dr. Phil?


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Posted by mazemaster on Fri Oct 7th at 10:35am 2005

It wouldn't be hard to peice together who you are from the information you have provided so far... Your profession, location, approximate age, details about your college experience, gender, race, IP address, hobbies, etc - all of those drastically narrow down the potential search space. I'm not going to do that since it would both be rude and time consuming, but the point is that someone so inclined could probably narrow down who you are to within handful of people without much trouble, and then figure out exactly who you are by manually investigating each of those potential people.

It is very difficult to be anonymous online.


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Posted by Loco on Fri Oct 7th at 1:04pm 2005

I blog and photo-blog under a nickname (Loco, of course), but certain things are out of bounds in terms of what I say and give details of generally speaking, such as:
  • Picture(s) of me
  • Real name
  • Accurate location (anything smaller than "UK")
  • etc
Purely for the reason that the internet is a slightly bizarre place. I'm posting to you guys, all of whom I've never met, never will meet, and don't know. Some of you are on different parts of the planet. If this is the case, then revealing personal details doesn't seem to me to be a good idea.

Each to his/her own though... <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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Posted by Underdog on Fri Oct 7th at 1:19pm 2005

? quoting Nickelplate
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess your real name is "Dr. Lee" or "Dr. Chan" No offense meant, of course. But those are pretty good guesses eh?

Haven't you heard? The Chinese have taken it upon themselves to usurp the names "Smith" and "Jones" They figure that with their current lead in pure numbers that they can easily corner the market. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/heee.gif">

Even if they keep their "Chan" and "Lee" titles they still have people to spare.

(laughs silently at paltry attempt at humor)

Sorry, jokes are not my strong point, and please stop looking at me like I have no others either. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif">




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Posted by Windows 98 on Fri Oct 7th at 2:50pm 2005

I hate them, with a passion. I used to not mind them until I saw this...

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I will never be the same again, neither the internet. Oh God MySpace, just die.



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