Today a concerned resident spoke about ...
ron thomas
Some folks stopped by to speak to me about the fact that you can enter your phone number into the Search Engine... GOOGLE. It will then tell the name and address of that phone number and draw a map to your front door. This panicked them as they had never heard of it before. They immediately contacted Google and had their information removed.
This has been around for quite awhile. As time moves forward you will know more and more about each other. Every bit of knowledge in the world is easily stored on a computer. Your particulars make it to some data base somewhere every time you fill out any kind of form... Whether it is on the internet or at a local store. Your information is a matter of public record on many government data bases.. In time someone will sell information about you to some advertising company... And so it goes... This has been referred to as the age of information and they (whoever they are) have an insatiable appetite for knowledge about you.
Personally, I don't think you can avoid having information about you on the net... Take our tiny little web site for instance. Probably several times a day or at least every two or three days everything written here is digested by scanning robots looking for names and facts and then categorizing them and then passing it on to Yahoo or MSN or Google or hundreds of other search engines. Later a person may do a search for that name or fact and it will show up. Over time our entire civilization will be at your finger tips. The only way to stop your information from reaching the search engine databases is not to give it to anybody ever.. And that is just not going to happen in my opinion. We've opened Pandora's Box and now we have to live with what came out. Just keep in mind the smallest request for information on you for whatever reason is going to go on a computer and from there it's an easy step to some company's data base.
Some folks stopped by to speak to me about the fact that you can enter your phone number into the Search Engine... GOOGLE. It will then tell the name and address of that phone number and draw a map to your front door. This panicked them as they had never heard of it before. They immediately contacted Google and had their information removed.
This has been around for quite awhile. As time moves forward you will know more and more about each other. Every bit of knowledge in the world is easily stored on a computer. Your particulars make it to some data base somewhere every time you fill out any kind of form... Whether it is on the internet or at a local store. Your information is a matter of public record on many government data bases.. In time someone will sell information about you to some advertising company... And so it goes... This has been referred to as the age of information and they (whoever they are) have an insatiable appetite for knowledge about you.
Personally, I don't think you can avoid having information about you on the net... Take our tiny little web site for instance. Probably several times a day or at least every two or three days everything written here is digested by scanning robots looking for names and facts and then categorizing them and then passing it on to Yahoo or MSN or Google or hundreds of other search engines. Later a person may do a search for that name or fact and it will show up. Over time our entire civilization will be at your finger tips. The only way to stop your information from reaching the search engine databases is not to give it to anybody ever.. And that is just not going to happen in my opinion. We've opened Pandora's Box and now we have to live with what came out. Just keep in mind the smallest request for information on you for whatever reason is going to go on a computer and from there it's an easy step to some company's data base.
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