Just out of curiosity, I'd like some of our technomembers to critique this article. How to Commit Internet Suicide and Disappear from the Web Forever
This has been read 212 times and answered zero times which suggests Kizmet has embedded a curse in the message that causes those who read it to disappe
Let this be a lesson to anyone else who wants to reveal- I mean, falsely accuse me of being an axe-weilding psycho.
A few years ago I saw all my employment history (dates, names, cities, education, etc) showing up in Google search results. Not only was this information showing up from LinkedIn, but all kinds of other websites had this information from crawling LinkedIn. I thought the identity thieves could easily get my information and ruin my life. I made my Linkedin account private a couple years ago. All my employment history prior to this is on the web forever. All my employment history after is not on the web. So making your LinkedIn account private does work. I don't use any social networks. About 10 years ago a few developers and myself interviewed a guy we were going to hire. We decided to Google his name. We found his postings on various forums. His posts were so stupid that we laughed all day. We recommended the company not hire him. Ever since then I try not to use social networks, forums, etc. I so use some but I take precautions and am very careful about what I post.
I don't worry about this stuff. If someone doesn't want to work with me because of what I've written online, it means they don't like the real me and I probably wouldn't enjoy working with them anyway.
I'm not techno, so I didn't want to reply. BUT I did go in and read it; deleted a linkedin accident I started a few years back. I give up, there's just too much to worry about. Lucky I don't have anything to hide (that I know of) so it's out there and that just is what it is.
That article was AWESOME, I may just have to log off this forum and go to some of those sites listed (Spokeo, Pipl, etc.) to find out what they know. So, is mis-spelling my name on this forum enough, or will it still link to the actual me? Anyhow, thank you for this post, it is a very interesting article!
