In February 2011, right before the tragic disaster, Japanese media and some Japanese people were absorbed in a stupid trivia, a cheating in the entrance exam for a famous university; a student posted the question on the Q&A site and succeeded to get the answers. The university asked the police to investigate the case, and a applicant was finally arrested.
It's a silly tale but I'd like to introduce the other side of the story. Once this news were reported, so many people began to search for the criminal from the ID which was used for cheating. And then, they found a student and started to post his private information including the messages he opened only to his friends on Facebook, his pictures, his address, his student yearbook, etc.
In fact, he was not the real criminal. He just pretended the criminal as a joke. He just used same ID which the real criminal used for cheating. He immediately found it dangerous and diminished SNS accounts, but it was too late to avoid people's tracking. The only fortune in the misfortune was that the real criminal was arrested a few days later. But he said "I thought that I socially died" in the newspaper. His information is still on the web. We can see it even now.
Of course that's beyond a joke. It was his mistake. But the problem is, everyone could be exposed as the virtual "criminal" like him. Let's say, if you took the exam and were using same ID as the criminal coincidentally, what would have happened to you? Moreover, if you have somebody who has hard feeling against you, he or she can track you with the information you opened on the web as a clue. Maybe you don't have this kind of people at present. But are you sure that no one of your facebook friends will someday have that kind of feeling?
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