mySpace, Blogs, etc...

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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Hello there.

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! :smile:

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... :wink:

// EDIT: Never realised you were Spikers I saw some maps from at TWHL,
and whose site I checked for articles... heh, nice to realise... :smile:

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Create-ivity - a game development blog

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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I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
http://www.dimebowl.com

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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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

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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I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
http://www.dimebowl.com

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.

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 :smile:

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 :smile:

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Designer @ Haiku Interactive | ReNo-vation.net

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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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

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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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

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

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I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
http://www.dimebowl.com

Dr. Phil?

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Reckless disregard for childrens well being, women and nothing but utter contempt for other cultures.

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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http://maze5.net

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... :smile:

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Nickelplate said:
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. :heee:

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. :wink:

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There is no history until something happens, then there is.

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



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

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Nickelplate is my dad