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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sabrinathecat" data-source="post: 6175361" data-attributes="member: 89838">I created sub-accounts from my primary email, and use those for logging into different boards. All my handles and my one attempt to see what the point of Facebook was (I concluded there wasn't any) are under the names of my cats.The paranoia level is a mixed bag. On the one hand, it is awfully easy for someone interested in doing so to hack your information. On the other hand, they have to want to. There is the thing: someone has to actually want to nail YOU. Sorry, but 99.9999% of the people just aren't that important for the government (or anyone else) to specifically target.As for the generation thing--there might be something to that. People post and email the stupidest things. One of my mother's coworkers had a daughter, and her friends were taking pictures of eachother's backsides (for some reason???) and sending them to each other on their phones (for some reason???). So for christmas, the mothers got together, and presents were addressed to the presents to and from the phone pictures of the girls making asses of themselves. Sadly, the girls seemed to think that was a great idea. As with all tools, there are people who will use them properly, there are people who will abuse them, and there are people who are just plain stupid, and will abuse the tools stupidly. The lack of foresight and judgment combined with that kind of power is sad, and the results are just going to stockpile.As for boards, I always remove any subscription information or direct links to me. Most of my personal info is kept out of them, except for my personal portfolio page. I have a hard time understanding why people need to post every time they break wind, with duration, note(s), and pungency. Who cares? Facebook, Twitter, whatever else... I don't care.</blockquote>

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