A simple guide for privacy on the internet

When browsing forums on the Internet that are discussing “Privacy on the Internet” You can see that it’s a hot topic. Most people are really frustrated by the fact that their name is somewhere on the Internet. Some of them have friends who put them on their own blog for example. The majority however are putting there-selves online. They are creating profiles on Facebook like websites and think it’s nice to comment on other users profiles. But when they find out their name is on Bing or Google, they get outrageous! Not the proper response I’d say.

Some of them are flooding the forums with hate topics about: “That search engine finds me on that website! I don’t want that! How can I get rid of it?”. Most of these topics are getting properly solved by people who are willing to help. Most search engines have the ability to trash a result. But you’ll need to get rid of the source first! So if you don’t want people to find you on Facebook, just don’t make your profile public or don’t create a profile at all!

And even then it’s possible people find you online. Why? because friends can still have you mentioned somewhere on their profiles or websites. Of course it’s possible to get rid of those results to. You’ll have to talk to your friends at first (the source) and discuss the problem with him.  Most of the time they’ll agree and remove you from their profiles. You’ll then have some more privacy. But keep in mind there always be tons of sources on the web where you’ll probably be found, the yellow pages for example.

The best way to get almost complete privacy online? Yes it’s still possible, but I don’t think it’s worth all of the work. Anyway, if you want to give it a try do the following:

• Don’t use Internet
• throw away your (mobile) phone
• throw away your credit cards. Yes people can find something about that to if they want!
• live in complete solitary. Don’t talk to anyone, don’t go to party’s where you might get photographed
• in conclusion don’t live at all..

I know this is pretty black and white. But people need to know in which era we’re all living in right now. It’s not possible to have online privacy anymore! welcome to the world.

This entry was posted on Friday, February 19th, 2010 at 5:05 pm and is filed under Social Media & SEO, Tutorials. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.