Internet Privacy -- Take off from J

Finding me on the web!!
To help spur me on with more to write this week I read the challenge on internet privacy. My name is fairly uncommon so I've never found anyone else with that name that actually has a web presence. I suppose I shouldnt be surprised that now has changed, but it has.

I remember as a child not liking the fact my name was so different from everyone else but now I have learned to emabrace and enjoy that fact. I really had a sense of dislike when I found the other person with the same name that has an active web presence. While there are other people who would come up in a phone directory type listing, this was the first to have pics of herself.

I wont comment on what I found -- I dont think it was the fact of the content as much as there was just someone.

Privacy?? Not when things are published publically

I had a 2. 5 hour phone call the other night over a discipline matter with youth sports. I volunteer many hours with youth sports and recently during one game unfortunately there were some players who let's just say let their tempers get the better of them. Apparently, someone was filming the game being played at the time and shortly there after a clip of the video was found on YouTube. In addition, comments about the game were being made by some of the players in the game. Of course the screen names did not reveal exactly who these players were but the comments were extremely inflammatory. While these were children, it would be the same type of comments that would get a professional player fined, suspended or both.

While there had been some discipline given after the game, this particular hearing would not have been held had it not been for the online video and public comments. What is worse, the players could not deny anything-- it was all public and documented with the video.

The final results of the hearing is still being deliberated so I'll refrain from further comment on that here... but just another example of people not understanding the public nature of the internet and the social sites that exist.