Interesting story, a year ago or so I was speaking to someone I barely knew on MSN. Some how we got into a conversation that involved me betting I could find out where he lived before the end of the week. After an hour or so of pokey around the internet I traced his address. Now this was a guy whom I didn't know the name of to start with, so to do this seems like a pretty impressive feat, but in reality it was worringly easy. Anyway, the other day I managed to near enough repeat the feat, and again it was worringly easy. So I was thinking, how easy is it to track down people's address's over the internet?
So, as a grand social experiment I'm going to pick 5 people who are regular internet users and see how far I can track them down. Obviously I won't say who they are or give any details away about them, but I will reveal how far I could trace them down to. Points will be awarded for getting their full name, getting their live journal / website, getting a photo, getting their phone number and getting their address. The more I get, the more points.
You maybe thinking at this stage, 'this is all a bit twisted isn't it?'. I would like to stress I am only doing this as a social experiment, no details will be kept on my machine and as far as possible I will forget all about them.
Other than that, the rules are as follows: Half an hour max on each person, internet only; no using phones or anything else, no contact with the person, no using money, no doing anything illegal, no getting help. Each person chosen will be taken from a different popular website forum. The person picked from the forum will be a pre-determined number in the list of members as sorted by the amount of posts posted.
I'm starting tomorrow, so get your 'that's just wrong' rebuttals in now.
(8) Liberate the Illiterate - Biffy Clyro
(t) Mfanwy
An interesting way to fill your time, certainly...! I look forward to the results of the experiment and hope the authorities do not get wind of this...
I once did this to someone on an online forum: found out what school they went to, what subjects they were (probably) studying for GCSE, how old they were... Then I told her what I'd found out, and had to work very hard to convince her that I wasn't a maniacal stalker.
why did noone tell me this sort of thing could be done? it would have made my life as a professional stalker of fit hair a lot easier...
Stalker of fit hair?
Say What?
fit hair is hair of the most beautiful kind. its the kind of fit indie kid hair (not monkey) thats sported on those with style and substance.
i got that from the dictionary.
The monkey boy sort is the only real sort of indie hair, fit indie hair requires too much effort for it to be truly indie. Thus says the man with monkey hair.
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I don't think it's all that wrong. I do think it's an excuse to do something a bit naughty but justify it by telling everyone you're doing it so as not to make it quite so sinister.
That's just an opinion, and well done for using the word rebuttal.