Hello Everyone, I think this should be a gr8 one!! It includes some research on my part and is one of my best shot!
Virtual Identity or Internet Identity has become a new kid on the block. Its nothing new but is probably the forgotten challenge of Internet that few of our matured and elderly person could predict. But at that time, they were chided at as outdated or superstitious people. Unfortunately, the fear has come true. And it has stuck at the time, when even that generation has joined the bandwagon called fast world of Internet. Today the only person left who doubts the efficiency or ill effects of internet are the newbies or left out ones. And in almost 9 out of 10 cases these sceptical people once become net freak tends to forget their fears.
Confused? You should be, cause if you are reading this then there are high chances that you too are a net freak and will not easily accept there are any flaw with internet. Well yes there isn't any flaw with the internet as such, but one new bit worrying concept of Virtual Identity has built up very fast. Well not binding, I would rather put it that this Virtual Identity has either or both of the aspects viz good or bad. It entirely depends on your comfortability level. However to me it has more of negative qualities then positive.
Virtual Identity: What does it mean?
Well by now you must have guessed it what exactly this word means, but anyways, here is a short definition coined by me, just for the sake of making the term clear.
Virtual Identity, is the form of Identity of person existing on internet. The basic part of it is composed of the name (can be a pen name too), while it can have other major details as the photos of friends and family, permanent residence or work address, email address, chat Id's, Likes and Dislikes, etc details revealing more and more about a person's characteristics.
Well Have you ever tried keying in your name in Google?
Try it, and if you are in Facebook, then probably the first search result is your profile. If your name is common enought then there are chances of it slipping somewhat down. If not Facebook, try it in Orkut, to get precise search, after your name enter your city's name, and in 90% case you ll get your profile, or the profile you are looking for. One more such site is Linked In, for which google has high priority result. But then Linked In is a proffessional networking rather than social networking, so lets spare Linked In here.
My Experiences with Virtual Identity:
Before pursuing further, I would like to share, from where this idea stuck me? Once while talking on the phone, a friend informed me about a guy who had called her out of the blue and has been harrassing for phone friendship. She gave me some details about the guy, that he has provided to flatter her. Now me belonging to Web Research Background was quite sure about the guy's Virtual Identity, so all I did was some basic search on few well known social networking site and with 99% surity I had not just the pic of this dude, but even his cell phone number. He had been calling from landline number to her and so there was a possibility that he used to call her from Local PCO. But then it was a break through with my researching skills as now it was not the dude who will reach us, but its we who will reach him. We surprised him by our "Hello" call on his cell phone and since then he has been in frenzy and has yet not dared to call back.
Since then, I have traced lot of information about quite a few girls, cell phone numbers in some cases, and have managed to whack some pics too. To boost about it, I have stolen the pics even from locked photo albums or from the albums visible only to friends (including Facebook profiles!!)
Boon or Bane?
This tool is so effective that one can know not just the external details about a person, but if minutely researched and refined the personality details as likes and dislikes, the attitude, key to drive one, etc can also be precisely known.
Have you ever thought that all the details you provide on net, be it any site, is being recorded somewhere, though not at same place, in this vast space called net. And to crack those details all one need is smart analytical mind. Till now most of us have pondered over the security of data which involves monetary worth, viz. Credit Card, net banking details, etc. because we have been reading about it in papers and have come accross various scams too. But now its not just limited to banks; the entire meaning of personal data has been revamped by social networking sites. You wish to share your information to get your old and lost pals but you forget the risk of getting your enemies, foes, and imposters along. Or you rather overlook them for the cost of opportunity lost by not putting up your details.
With this ever increasing ballyhoo being created by the social networking site, I think soon we would get to read in papers about the more personal data being theft. Well I dont think I need to eloborate on the fact that a personal picture when stolen can be used in any and every way.
So now you have to decide, whether this world of virtual identity is a boon or a bane for you?
Last but not the least I would suggest, even if you are very much comfortable with sharing your details, do analyse the long term impact that any information provided can get you into.
(all your feedback and comments are most welcome, the views are personal and might have error in logic, concept or description. So please feel free to point them!!)
Virtual Identity or Internet Identity has become a new kid on the block. Its nothing new but is probably the forgotten challenge of Internet that few of our matured and elderly person could predict. But at that time, they were chided at as outdated or superstitious people. Unfortunately, the fear has come true. And it has stuck at the time, when even that generation has joined the bandwagon called fast world of Internet. Today the only person left who doubts the efficiency or ill effects of internet are the newbies or left out ones. And in almost 9 out of 10 cases these sceptical people once become net freak tends to forget their fears.
Confused? You should be, cause if you are reading this then there are high chances that you too are a net freak and will not easily accept there are any flaw with internet. Well yes there isn't any flaw with the internet as such, but one new bit worrying concept of Virtual Identity has built up very fast. Well not binding, I would rather put it that this Virtual Identity has either or both of the aspects viz good or bad. It entirely depends on your comfortability level. However to me it has more of negative qualities then positive.
Virtual Identity: What does it mean?
Well by now you must have guessed it what exactly this word means, but anyways, here is a short definition coined by me, just for the sake of making the term clear.
Virtual Identity, is the form of Identity of person existing on internet. The basic part of it is composed of the name (can be a pen name too), while it can have other major details as the photos of friends and family, permanent residence or work address, email address, chat Id's, Likes and Dislikes, etc details revealing more and more about a person's characteristics.
Well Have you ever tried keying in your name in Google?
Try it, and if you are in Facebook, then probably the first search result is your profile. If your name is common enought then there are chances of it slipping somewhat down. If not Facebook, try it in Orkut, to get precise search, after your name enter your city's name, and in 90% case you ll get your profile, or the profile you are looking for. One more such site is Linked In, for which google has high priority result. But then Linked In is a proffessional networking rather than social networking, so lets spare Linked In here.
My Experiences with Virtual Identity:
Before pursuing further, I would like to share, from where this idea stuck me? Once while talking on the phone, a friend informed me about a guy who had called her out of the blue and has been harrassing for phone friendship. She gave me some details about the guy, that he has provided to flatter her. Now me belonging to Web Research Background was quite sure about the guy's Virtual Identity, so all I did was some basic search on few well known social networking site and with 99% surity I had not just the pic of this dude, but even his cell phone number. He had been calling from landline number to her and so there was a possibility that he used to call her from Local PCO. But then it was a break through with my researching skills as now it was not the dude who will reach us, but its we who will reach him. We surprised him by our "Hello" call on his cell phone and since then he has been in frenzy and has yet not dared to call back.
Since then, I have traced lot of information about quite a few girls, cell phone numbers in some cases, and have managed to whack some pics too. To boost about it, I have stolen the pics even from locked photo albums or from the albums visible only to friends (including Facebook profiles!!)
Boon or Bane?
This tool is so effective that one can know not just the external details about a person, but if minutely researched and refined the personality details as likes and dislikes, the attitude, key to drive one, etc can also be precisely known.
Have you ever thought that all the details you provide on net, be it any site, is being recorded somewhere, though not at same place, in this vast space called net. And to crack those details all one need is smart analytical mind. Till now most of us have pondered over the security of data which involves monetary worth, viz. Credit Card, net banking details, etc. because we have been reading about it in papers and have come accross various scams too. But now its not just limited to banks; the entire meaning of personal data has been revamped by social networking sites. You wish to share your information to get your old and lost pals but you forget the risk of getting your enemies, foes, and imposters along. Or you rather overlook them for the cost of opportunity lost by not putting up your details.
With this ever increasing ballyhoo being created by the social networking site, I think soon we would get to read in papers about the more personal data being theft. Well I dont think I need to eloborate on the fact that a personal picture when stolen can be used in any and every way.
So now you have to decide, whether this world of virtual identity is a boon or a bane for you?
Last but not the least I would suggest, even if you are very much comfortable with sharing your details, do analyse the long term impact that any information provided can get you into.
(all your feedback and comments are most welcome, the views are personal and might have error in logic, concept or description. So please feel free to point them!!)
3 comments:
too virtual, but nice
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The virtual world(wired world of today's internet age) needs to be separated by the real world by some means(ofcourse to protect the personal identification and other things), and I think using a virtual or proxy identity is one of the best workouts available.
But when it comes to share your personal information with your friends in this virtual world, it is always good to think twice, know the person at other end and give some extra months to your ordinary "jaan-pehchaan" before revealing your identity.
Thanks for endorsing my ideas!!
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