You are paranoid. Its demographic info and you don't have to participate.

Posted by kam77:

You are paranoid. Its demographic info and you don't have to participate.

Uuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh, just exactly were does it say that I am? Paranoid my ass! I don't want to be a party pooper, but just be careful people.

Posted by kam77:

The reason why? I could ask you one question today and ask you another one in about a week. At the end of the year, I could know fifty things about you, personally.

Thats where.

I don't mean to offend you Kam77. I just think people need to be careful about what information they put out on the internet. It's called 'narrowing it down'. There's really no need to know were people live, or what race they are, or what they do for a living. I know I added a few things on the list, but it happens. I'm sure 99% of the people on this board, on most boards, are probably good honest people. It only takes one to ruin it all for someone.

think about it.
1) The kind of info you can gather about people from polls can be bought easily from spammers. I get tons of junk mail in my US Postal mailbox.
2) It will take someone 2 or 3 years to gather enough information about you to even consider identity theft.
3) someone will easily catch on if the same person keeps making polls or asks personal questions. The polls or the questions might be too personal to answer anyway!
4) Ever sign up for a mailing list online? Like cnet.com or Cnn? Those have more information to work with than polls like this one.

Come on guys. I'm all about being careful but I think you guys are being a bit too paranoid here. Your IP address gives out more information about who you are than polls like this one.

The way I look at it, questions like this one don't give anything away. Can you tell who said they live in Queens? No you can't. Its a poll. And those people, that want to steal your information have much better ways than collect information on a forum for a year. wiki

There's no way around it, but you can keep your personal information to a minimum.

You should think about it and then decide whether the information you are giving out is personal or not. This is not phising or replying to a spam email. You are selecting an option that groups you and displays majority in a bar chart in polls, entirely harmless. You just have to be smart about what info you are giving out. Don't give out info thats too personal.

I know a few people who's info got taken and used for criminal activity. Credit card info for instance and they have no idea how they got it.

If the person collects information on a forum he will never order a fake credit card. Or for that matter anything significant. You cannot establish anything significant by holding different polls cause you cannot even collect specific data.

Why would you defend against a simple cautionary note.

because everywhere I go I find someone overreacting to stuff. There are other issues that need our attention: phising, nigerian email scams etc. Hey man, I am all for being safe and cautious but this is just not one of those places where you need to be cautious.

Posted by Silverfuel:

The way I look at it, questions like this one don't give anything away. Can you tell who said they live in Queens? No you can't. Its a poll. And those people, that want to steal your information have much better ways than collect information on a forum for a year. wiki

There's no way around it, but you can keep your personal information to a minimum.

You should think about it and then decide whether the information you are giving out is personal or not. This is not phising or replying to a spam email. You are selecting an option that groups you and displays majority in a bar chart in polls, entirely harmless. You just have to be smart about what info you are giving out. Don't give out info thats too personal.

I know a few people who's info got taken and used for criminal activity. Credit card info for instance and they have no idea how they got it.

If the person collects information on a forum he will never order a fake credit card. Or for that matter anything significant. You cannot establish anything significant by holding different polls cause you cannot even collect specific data.

Why would you defend against a simple cautionary note.

because everywhere I go I find someone overreacting to stuff. There are other issues that need our attention: phising, nigerian email scams etc. Hey man, I am all for being safe and cautious but this is just not one of those places where you need to be cautious.

Soot yourself and have ad it then! Maybe I'll do a profile on you to prove what I know of you. I guarantee, you won't remember ever saying some of the things you've said in the past, or the upcoming past. It won't amount to me getting anything' from you or even wanting to, but it would prove a point, but now that I told you that, you'll probably think twice! Good day to ya.

playa2, there wasn't room for more than 8 choices. You're in that "somewhere else" category i think.