Attn Everyone: STOP TRYING TO REVEAL ALL MY DATAS!

[A Black Falcon]

Privacy is important, but I will say that the dangers of giving out information on the internet are retarded. Who the hell is going to pick out some random person on the internet who lives halfway across the globe, find out their information, travel to their location, all just to rape and murder them? You have a higher probability of being raped and murdered by someone near you than someone who just happened to find out your information online. (Not saying this to you in particular, DJ. I'm just venting at no one in particular about how overhyped the dangers of the internet are perceived.)

True, it's much more likely that they'll just steal your identity and ruin your credit, etc... and yeah, there might not be much you can do about that, a lot of that information isn't stuff that people divulge on message boards. Still, I'd think that the more you say about yourself the more you're opening yourself up to potential issues...

I know that for most people nothing will ever happen, but still, I'm just a little paranoid about it I guess. :) And it is certainly possible...

But yeah, it isn't right for websites to give out private information like that without your permission, and the default option should be "no." It should be your choice what information you share with the world and what information you keep to yourself.

I quite definitely with this part for sure. They want to share it to make more money though, generally (because the more they know about people at their site the more they can probably charge for advertising), so it's a battle of privacy vs. money... and it's hard for privacy to win any such fight, unfortunately.