Saturday, November 19, 2011

Be careful when putting your information on internet

As our last eMarketing class we talked about personalization and privacy, so I want to share this story.

People usually upload pictures and personal information such as education, company etc and update current status, feeling on facebook. Someone put very detailed. You may think that it's ok because you can set it to visible to your friends. But be careful, if one of your friend thought you are his/her enemy. Internet is very good tools for revenge.

This is my experience, my brother's ex-girlfriend named Joy don't like another girl named Ann (both are assumed name), then she tried to discredit her by create a lot of fake facebook account :

- One account pretend to be a man, trying to flirt Ann but the real objective is, she want to keep watching what'a Ann doing in each day. Capturing every pictures that she looks very sexy. Copy every Ann's information on facebook and internet.

Another account, she try to be fake Ann. She invited a lot of unknown guys and put all Ann's personal information there, such as Ann's real name with family name, address, company, mobile phone, e-mail, etc. And publish to everyone with the bad rude word. She want everyone think Ann is prostitute, bitchy girl.

Another two facebook accounts for pretending to be fake Ann's friend. Posting a words to support each other. Try to talk like Ann is really bad women.

On Ann's fake facebook account. A lot of people blame Ann like she is rude, bitchy women but actually all information is posted by Joy, not Ann herself. Joy searched every information about Ann on internet and put everything. I'm not sure if she also do forward e-mail to discredit her or not, but it's possible and very easy to do that.

Everything have both black and white site. From this event, I think Internet is very powerful tool for learning but it's also a great tool for revenge.

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