DNAHelicase -> RE: What's an acceptable introduction? (10/4/2012 9:32:13 AM)
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ORIGINAL: MariaB Firstly I read your profile and it sounds a bit too showy for my liking. You also give away too much information on your profile about who you actually are. Remember that google is our friend! Holy shitballs, dude. I know some people are open about who they are, but I'm guessing from your profile pic that you don't want to be (or else why not just have a face pic instead of a mask that makes you look like a burglar?). Here's what I found within five minutes of googling some of the information you have in your profile now: Your full name Your business website Your ebay profile/buying and selling history Your OKCupid profile with your face picture Myspace, LinkedIn, and a plethora of other profiles Your ad on garagegames from 2006 asking people to help you develop a hockey game, wherein you list more information about yourself and an email address In short, enough personally identifying information that it would be no problem at all to run a background check on you and find out your home phone number and address, parents' names, and all kinds of other things for just a few dollars, if I was so inclined. I'm good at finding such information when I want to, so it's quite possible I could find these things without a background check or any expense if I kept looking. I have no reason to do so, though, and so I'm not going to keep looking just to see if I can find those things. If you're cool with being that open, kudos to you. If you aren't, I suggest removing anything in your profile that includes specific phrases that can lead people to other profiles you've created that contain that same information (if you aren't sure what I'm talking about, send me a PM--I didn't want to post everything here for everybody to see, though I dare say most people could probably figure out the key phrases on their own). You've made a lot of improvements on your profile here, so kudos on that too! Just be aware that some of the things you added might be revealing more than you meant them to. Edit: I'm quoting MariaB because I'm expanding on her point, but this is directed at BSS. Just in case there was any confusion. :P
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