1. Don't ever display personal and confidential stuff on blogs, even things as simple as the name of your previous high school or the church that you are attending. This is especially true if you tend to create passwords for your online stuffs based on the things/persons that you are most fond of.
2. Even for community site accounts, e.g. Facebook, it's advisable to lock it from outsiders. But just in case some pariahs still can get hold of more 'useful' hints about your whereabouts, don't display info about your high school/university, mobile number, or instant messaging addresses.
3. We are living in a convoluted world. Hackers are everywhere. The more things we put online, the more vulnerable we are towards their attacks. Even if you don't put too much of your personal stuffs online, others might link or tag you and you're still open to attacks, if you are so 'lucky'. So, for extra caution, create really funky passwords for online stuffs - community sites, banking, etc.
4. Especially photos...! It's advisable not to 'show' yourself too much by posting so many of your own photos on blogs or community sites. Group pictures are not so bad. Just in case some psychos out there like the way you look and start to hunt you down. Somemore if you put your office's or uni's or school's name, whatever... they might just trace it down and who knows what's next. Urgghhhh!
Sigh... Read something along this line a few weeks ago. Freaked me out. Then, in one of the Reader's Digest articles, I read about identity thieves who sabotage others' identity and use them as their own. I hate people who do things like this. I don't believe what happens in the Western world won't happen here in Malaysia. Men are sinners, regardless of nationality. What a pity.
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