Does anyone know anything about this? I don't mean technical stuff like Aitch-Tee-Em-Ell , I can figure that out and they have lots af FAQs for sad personswho actually read FAQs. I mean giving them personal details (name , postcode, date of birth) when you log on.
It is one of those websites where you have to sign up to see hardly anything let alone Do Stuff and the T&C is that you have to give your real details. I don't want to give my real details as I am sure those who know the virtual me can guess and my work bans us from such websites and even mentioning our real lives etc.
I know I can just make the details up in a technical sense but I remember a case where someone got jailed for giving myspace wrong details, but is this only a problem if you cause enough grief to people in your alter ego though.
I just want to nosey at Real People you see (who turned up in Google search) , I have no wish to promote myself in a Furby will be famous way. So my details would be fake but I would be being real in my dealings. It hurts my head to think of it, on the internet Furby IS the real me.
Secondly, sites and kids today in general
Last time YF was here she wanted to use the computer to talk to the girl next door at her own house who she sees the other 5 days of the week when her (furby's) mother is not off on one , the irony of this does not escape me . They have set them selves up on a penguin site and a haribo site. It is sort of like our chat but you are a little cartoon character and say hi and wow a lot.
YF had said she was born in 1994 (which is untrue). I asked her why she picked this date and she just said "They said I had to 14 so I took just 14 from 2008". To her this was normality, she saw no wrong in this. She had however given a false surname and I asked about this, did they teach her this at school , did the girl next door have this idea. No she said, Girl-next-door gave her real name nobody told me to give a made up name but I though it was best.
Perhaps there are advantages to being a disadvantaged kid after all, the internet seems full of middle class kids telling their whole life stories but a kid who has used a computer only a few dozen times doesn't even need telling. Or perhaps it is just she is A Furby.Furby, you are pyschic, I mentioned this to Pani not an hour ago - tired of clicking on links to see 'you must sign into your Facebook account before you can proceed'. I don't have one, and neither do either of my girls, so I feel the world is rushing on ahead of me (aftr me keeping up all these years) and I will never catch up now.
Loved the story about canny young YF (:lol at 'they say Hi and Wow' a lot). I am sure she is wise because she carries the genes of her Aunt locked inside. They are growing up differently to us, that's for sure. They can transport their avatar selves through time and space and communicate with realy, yet virtual people the world over at any time of day or night. This was called Science Fiction when I was young.I'm thinking of signing up to facebook, but only because my daughter asked me to. I think I'm just being invited to make up the numbers
I have no idea about it or myspace really except that the object seems to be to have more fake friends than anyone else. Oh and to tell 100s of strangers all your business.
If I do sign up I won't call myself by my real name or by Panikos (which IS my real name in many ways)
It made me smile to think of YF being so careful/wise about the net. A useful skill in this day and age.
I feel the world is rushing on ahead of me (aftr me keeping up all these years) and I will never catch up now.
It is all very spooky as this is exactly how I feel about work these days and was thinking as I have to go back in today to find out my job has changed yet again. I can't absorb information now my brain is too old.The abandon that some people hand out personal details is scary. Some of you will no doubt remember my dispute last winter with that fraudulent ebay seller. She posted a photo of quality camera gear for sale at a nice price, then sent junk in its place, i.e. a switch scam. During the dispute I was considering legal action in the small claims court, and was quite legally able to find out her home address, the name and address of her employer, her pets' names, the first name of her boyfriend, her shoe size and her dress size. I also found photos of her on her blog. Fortunately, the dispute was settled in full by Paypal.... and yet I spent hours this morning trying to track down a former piano teacher of Jay's. He is young (20s) has an unusual surname and works in education as a peripatetic music teacher, I have a brilliant Google technique, I can hunt down anything if it's there - and yet he appears to have no Internet footprint whatsoever!
I did find his family address which will do as I'm sure they will forward my card and message, but only because of the unusual surname and because I remembered his father's initial. But it just goes to show, the details of everyone's private life are not yet out there! (mine probably are but then I am indiscreet. I bet ya don't know my shoe size though )My real name is so common that I am virtually invisible. The phone is in my husband's name which adds an extra protection -- his name is unusual.
I was taken aback once to be congratulated by a stranger on my stellar record of fundraising for a religious organization!Stellar as in "black hole"? What is the brilliant google technique on googling unusual names, can merry share with us. Knowledge is Power and all that.
What I do is look at links and then when I find things that are obviously not what I am looking for , I do a minus to reduce the hits.That's my googling method too and it works well enough. Merry is a fast googler. Not especially for names, but for anything at all.
You need a name or something else significant to find someone online. Merry doesn't hide her real name, but if she did it would be impossible to google for 'someone in the cotswolds who likes chocolate and old churches'Next Page...
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