ammortal1

GOOGLE your suicidegirls.com user name. Go ahead, try it! If your user name is a commonly occurring word/phrase, just append the word suicidegirls to the search term. HOLY SHIT!!! Your SG profile complete with profile pic, journal entries, journal entry pics, comments, and message group memberships, will be the very first item returned, directly linked from the google search.
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Try Yahoo search.
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Try Altavista search.
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All the same!
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Your whole SG profile is available on the internet for any person who wants to dig up dirt on you.
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Alternative choices:
1. Anonymous profile. No name, no pic, no identifiable personality with which to really participate in SG.
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2. Blank profile. Not much different from anonymous profile except that it's a regular profile with all data blanked; can still have visible username and pic if you so desire.
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I had a girlfriend a while back who found out my net name, and google'd it. She then confronted me with the text of some board posts I posted on this site (the boards appear to not be visible to the search engines anymore). That was a bad day. It became a permanant day.
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How about the SG sysadmins implementing some guardrails to prevent the public search engines from linking directly to our user profiles? The popular cry now seems to ring with tones of the erosion of American civil liberties under the Bush regime. At the same time, it seems that I can't really have a private profile on SG without it becoming public domain.
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