anon
Written by fredward on February 18th, 2006It seems like everything has a timestamp these days. Forums, facebook, myspace. By viewing comments, updates, posts, etc people can tell what you’ve been doing and when you did it.Don’t forget about AIM idle time, at least that can be shut off. And now with Google Talk they make it so anyone on your buddy list can see every single time you check your email? (but you can disable this)
Even people who try to maintain a low online profile aren’t able to if they visit sites like these. Of course, they are “social” sites so it seems to defeat the purpose of maintaining a low online profile..
Do you remember back in the day? Before friendster, facebook, myspace and social networking sites. You pretty much had forums.. and IRC. ICQ was huge and aim was barely heard of. At least w/ ICQ you could go invisible but still be able to see everyone else who was online (and add buddies to your visible list) that was an interesting feature.
Before google toolbar, insane amounts of spyware and adaware. It makes me wonder how much (nothing illegal, just in general) could be traced back to me if someone really wanted to. It’s kind of scary…and i’m not even mentioning online purchases and bill paying
It makes me wonder, if I picked up, took off and wanted to completely remain anonymous on the internet. Would it be possible?