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Post by lesbrent on Sept 12, 2006 21:32:46 GMT -5
ha! Just get rid of the evidence and eventually they won't come up in a google cache!
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Post by cbowen4 on Sept 12, 2006 21:40:52 GMT -5
An even better choice is to not put anything on the web in a publicly accessible form that you would not be comfortable with ANYONE seeing. I'm at a University and our incoming freshmen now get a lecture in orientation about Myspace and Facebook. They are specifically told that employers WILL check them and that they should carefully consider what they put online for the world to see. They are also told aby caching and that Google is not the only cache out there and that pulling things off the web does not necessarily make them go away.
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Post by mettle on Sept 12, 2006 23:02:49 GMT -5
Right, but what if you just want to explore a new art form that involves the internet? Is ones privacy the toll we want to exact for entry into that world? Or what if you're a 14 y-o kid and you want to make friends? Or put stuff up for your friends to see? Then, 4 years later, you're an adult... I mean, there's stuff I posted on usenet groups back in the 90s when I was a minor that I'm embarrassed about. Should I have to have that follow me around forever and be accessable to anyone who knows how to google? Some way to at least keep pages from being cached would be ideal. Some way to say to google "don't cache this page". Employers check myspace for job candidates to see what their background is or if they have a picture of them drinking and smokin dope. I agree, there is no such thing as internet privacy. Everyone should think twice before putting anything personal online. Celebrities want fame and with fame comes lack of privacy.
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Post by cbowen4 on Sept 13, 2006 6:51:24 GMT -5
If you shout something out in a large room and someone hears it and blabs to the press, don't cry that it's a privacy issue. A Myspace privacy issue is hiding your personal information. But, what you put up is not private anymore. You can't put the Jeannie back into the bottle. You could convince Google to not cache something, but it would not matter, because anyone with a simple web spider, a good connnection, and some time can copy any site at any time. I would not be surprised to know that some companies are already doing this so they will know what your Facebook pictures looked like a year before you applied, not what the sanitized version that's up right now looks like.
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mettle
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Post by mettle on Sept 13, 2006 10:23:23 GMT -5
Right, but half these people are kids. The press has an ethical guideline that they don't mention kid's names in articles. Teh internets has no such ethics or guidelines. Plus, what if you don't want to "shout" but whisper to your friends. Well, turns out that's being all saved, too. If you shout something out in a large room and someone hears it and blabs to the press, don't cry that it's a privacy issue. A Myspace privacy issue is hiding your personal information. But, what you put up is not private anymore. You can't put the Jeannie back into the bottle. You could convince Google to not cache something, but it would not matter, because anyone with a simple web spider, a good connnection, and some time can copy any site at any time. I would not be surprised to know that some companies are already doing this so they will know what your Facebook pictures looked like a year before you applied, not what the sanitized version that's up right now looks like.
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Post by oahkoah on Sept 13, 2006 18:25:14 GMT -5
Some way to at least keep pages from being cached would be ideal. Some way to say to google "don't cache this page". Google obeys Robots.txt, however you have no control of it on your MySpace or Photobucket unless they're made private. Google has always obeyed robots.txt for all my websites, and so has all other web crawlers I've come across.
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Post by ka on Sept 14, 2006 7:01:51 GMT -5
(Friend's college asked for her myspace and facebook address when she went to apply there) Now there's a nightmare vision of the future - a world where getting off the network merry-go-round will be regarded as suspicious. "He has no Myspace address - what's he up to?"
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Post by invitroblossoms on Sept 18, 2006 0:41:45 GMT -5
I've been considering deleting mine for awhile now it stresses me out.
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