How does one turn off their name??

[Judy Hamilton]

every message i place on naznet, all my blogs
and photos
end up on google

must i make a name change to halt this??

Has this also occurred to each one of you??
i hesitate to post as even meaningless trivia
in the wrong mind ..can come back and
have the ability to bite you

Judy

[Joel Merrill]

I don't like this either. I wish there was a way to just keep what I say here.

Joel

[Gina Stevenson]

... is when you find someone with your name doing weird things, such as this that I found about some other "gina stevenson" in the UK in the list my name brought up there at Google:


'Psychic' who said she could remove curses is given jail

By Nick Britten
(Filed: 12/07/2006)

A bogus psychic healer who conned customers into giving her almost £60,000 to lift deadly curses that she claimed to have placed on their families was jailed for 15 months yesterday.
Going under the name of Sister Grace, Gina Stevenson, 33, warned that the spells she had cast would prove fatal unless she was paid to lift them.

[Terri Knoll]

every message i place on naznet, all my blogs
and photos
end up on google

must i make a name change to halt this??

Has this also occurred to each one of you??
i hesitate to post as even meaningless trivia
in the wrong mind ..can come back and
have the ability to bite you

Judy

Marsha Lynn posted awhile back about an internet stalker finder her thru google etc. There is really nothing you can do but remain anonymous or go by an assumed name. Keep changing your passwords to important stuff and you shouldn't have any problems with someone stealing sensitive (ie bank info) but unless you really go stealth, there is nothing "big brother" can't find.

sorry I am no help lol

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

Kind of like real life isn't it? Things you say in public get around!

[Roland Hearn]

I have no idea what the problem is with people being able to read the stuff I write in a public forum. So someone can google my name, could someone please tell me what the actual real problem is over the imagined suppossed fears?

[Gina Stevenson]

Actually, it might not be so bad if someone finds you on the internet; it might be bad if they find someone else with the same name, and attribute such things to you that might not be quite so nice. ;) [see what I found above]

BTW, didn't think my name combo would be common enough that I'd go to WalMart a couple of years ago and do layaway (a rare-rare-rarity for me), be asked for my name, and then have them ask if I lived at such-and-such a place where I'd never even been. It's not like this is one of the biggest towns around here.

What if someone with one's same name does something, and it makes the news, and that news shows up in a "google." 'Guess people just have to take one's word for it that it's not them, remembering there are many people with the same/similar names, eh! ;)

I have no idea what the problem is with people being able to read the stuff I write in a public forum. So someone can google my name, could someone please tell me what the actual real problem is over the imagined suppossed fears?

[Judy Hamilton]

not really fears Roland...just that my blogs, i did not realize
are there for everyone global to read

and seems that what ever is said on the Internet stays forever
as for instance, the prayer I prayed for veterans some two-three
years ago is still on google

i have no fears that someone is stalking me, will steal my bank #

just that I would like to share here on naznet without
the entire world entering into my thoughts

have thought w/ the name spelled unique as is mine
this is probaly my problem

as Scott, Smith ect are common last names and attract less attention

think I willl try changing my name and see if this helps

the blogs..i will have to work on this..the photos are
there for posterity..checked with smumug already
and these are really not a problem, as i can close an album
if i so choose

little wonder so many strange names appear with bloggers

Judy

[Barbara Moulton]

just that I would like to share here on naznet without the entire world entering into my thoughts




There really isn't any way that we can stop every person in the world with internet from reading what we have to say. But I don't think everyone in the world with internet is reading what I have to say.

If someone from my church or community googles my name, they would find NazNet. But I don't have issues with that. I don't think strangers in the UK are randomly googling my name :-)

When I was considering running for town council here, one thing I did think was that things I had written here MIGHT be found as part of a google search. But I couldn't think of anything that anyone would be able to use as "campaign fodder".

However, the sum total of what I have written on NazNet since the advent of this new software, probably paints a pretty clear picture of my personality...likes...dislikes etc.

I think we should be careful about criticizing people in our "real world" here on the Internet. And I've seen posts that I think are a breach of confidentiality myself.

If I google my name and confine it to Canada, several things come up. The very first one is a government of Canada press release for a community computer access program that they funded. The charitable foundation of which I was director at the time was one of the participants in the pilot project and I am quoted. I think they pulled the quote from an evaluation I completed during the project. This was released in 1998 and is still the first thing that comes up!

That showed me how long is the memory of this medium and taught me caution.

http://www.industrycanada.ca/cmb/welcomeic.nsf/ffc979db07de58e6852564e400603639/301712695a68ef868525660f0047cfbd!OpenDocument

[Jim Franklin]

A few weeks before I went on vacation there was an obituary of a Jim Franklin in our Idaho Statesman so I cut it out and tacked it on the bulletin board just before I left. But to my disappointment no one asked how I had been resurrected when I got back.

[Roland Hearn]

just that I would like to share here on naznet without
the entire world entering into my thoughts

Thanks Judy, I see that you have no fears of someone miss using private information about you.
I still don't understand what the actual problem is if someone I don't know reads what I write here unless I am foolishly writing things I shouldn't be. If I am writing stuff that genuinely reflects who I am and what I believe then I still struggle to know what the problem is with people reading that.
Perhaps it is simply that there was a perception of some privacy that you are discovering isn't there. If that is true I would suggest by all means use some kind of nom do plume. But before you do that Judy would you allow me to suggest that the great value of sites like Naznet is that we get to know each other. Even with your blogs you are actually representing something of your self there. You are letting people know who you really are and that is the person that the people that know and love you are most interested in. While a non de plume may protect against some imagined person reading your stuff and connecting it with you the real people in your life actually loose something when that is done. Even though they may know it is you there is something subtly suggested by not identifying yourself.
My ultimate decision is to not put out in public something that could be used against me and if I do be willing to deal with that.

[Judy Hamilton]

Hi Roland

I guess to explain how I feel is that sharing with naznet is close to sharing with close friends or my family, as we each have walked together thru some difficult times in our lives, and feel loved here in this community. I really do not care for strangers to know about the death of my mother and sister, and of my sisters struggles with an addiction..However John's trial and this tragedy in our family..especially in regard to John's situation has been and is very well documented on the Pro Choice abortion web rings

Have not a clue right now if this will happen, however someday Shannon and Kris's dad may be granted another trial..maybe now you understand somewhat why I do not want perfect, non caring strangers to do with what they want with naznet sharing

Sharing grand babies, and hiking adventures is not a problem. I however i would not share (if present) an administrative work related issue

However the other about my ex-husband..is an entire different subject..and even asking for prayer could be a sharing that could easily be misinterpreted with a 12 person jury

i lucked out and did not have to testify with his first trial, not sure my luck will hold if there is another trial

anyway Hans changed my name..and the unique spelling of my maiden name is gone. So I am now among the many, many Judy Hamiltons on the internet. hopefully this will help.

Thanks for your reply and insight

Judy

[David Cash]

I think I see both sides of the privacy question. I like the honesty of using real names here on NazNet. In general, I don't like secrets and I don't care if the world reads what I write on the internet. In fact, I have an evangelistic web site that I wish the world would read.

On the other hand, people are reading my web site in places where Christianity is very unpopular. While I'm careful not to openly bad-mouth anybody's religion or get into politics, I still wonder what would happen if somebody saw my statements that Jesus is the only way as offensive to their faith and Googled in my address. It isn't something I lose a lot of sleep over, but what if the day they came for me, my elderly mother were here by herself? Not likely, but with international street riots over religion. . .

Probably as far as what we say on NazNet, something I once read in a magazine for the short-wave radio hobbyist is relevant. If you aren't involved in espionage, revolution, etc. there probably aren't very many people wanting to bug your telephone. Most people aren't going to get too worked up over what we say here--except maybe ourselves.

Some people are more vulnerable than others. A middle age bachelor who does hard physical work doesn't worry about creeps calling him at 2:00 am. There are single women who do have to consider such things. How to protect the more vulnerable yet keep the forum properly public is an interestic subject. It's also one that I don't have any answers for.

David Cash

[David Cash]

My face is almost red!

Judy, after my last post, which was inspired by a post or two before it, I actually read your last post. My little generalization didn't come anywhere near the real life issues you bring up. I see your point clearly, even if many of us don't have quite the challenges you face.

If its any help, your name change worked for me. If it hadn't been for your avitar, I would have really thought you were a different Judy. Your maiden name was a real eye catcher.

David Cash

[Roland Hearn]

Judy if the anonimity you now have helps you stay a part of Naznet I think that is a good thing. I think you have found a perfect solution that works. It is certainly as important as being open to be comfortable and you have taken the steps that will allow you to be that way and I think that is great.