Scooter wrote:
I can't imagine what would have possessed him (unless he was drunk or on drugs) to think that it would be a good idea for it to even be possible that members' full names would be displayed publicly.
Answered your own question there mate.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Luckily my second name, according to my registration, is 'aaaaaaaaa', simply because I am quite mistrusting about giving detail about me on public internet sites. And I'm something like 100 years old because I didn't know why my age and birthday were essential to a registration. But my first name used[i/] to be just considered to be 'alice' by most, which is how I like it.
Perhaps he just didn't realise he'd left the setting as 'public'. Or maybe he's got plans to start a sort of rival facebook/myspace site.
And I also found out that I have been listed as 'single' despite not even being asked that question. I don't know how I was deduced as being 'single' but I don't like the idea of 'advertising' my status. I'm not interested in trying to date anyone from the site, and I can't think of any other reason why it would even be relevant.
Life is like photography. You use the negative to develop.
I get teh impression we're being used as guniea pigs to sort out all the "technical problems" before Sean Starts making money out of it.
(Not that I can yet see why anyone would pay for access there.)
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
What I've just learned about myself from this experience is that I'm WAY too trusting and/or a conformist to authority - despite all that liberal education for which I paid a fortune!
I see that many of you entered nonsense - even Steve did - and here I go, Doh!, entering my actual information. Again, I thought it would default to private and be for Gar's eyes only. I did communicate with him about it, others have as well, and he is working on it.
Steve had already stalked me to my general location in Montana; now he knows exactly where I live.
Luckily I live with a guy who owns the biggest guns I've ever seen and is a crack shot. C'mon, Steve!
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
That place has more features than I've ever seen, but I'd like it much more if it had a similar interface to CSB I. It's a bit overwhelming at first glance.
I believe the business model is based on the idea of taking a number of successful models; forums, blogs, facebook, Youtube, etc. (as well as other services like video and audio conferencing)
And make them all available in a single website....
I registered as Gobshite, and am in the same position...
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
