Yeah, that's right...because (and be warned) I tried one of those counter thingies that I had heard so much about....Well, it was definitely sort of creepy to me that we can see people's ISP numbers and stuff (which made me think about the even more creepy Patriot Act); yet, on the other hand it was fun to see how people arrived at my blog.
Well, yesterday at a university computer, I went to my blog on a whim, clicked on my little counter thingy, and it actually displayed my last name and everything...Which is un-creepy when I think about the people I regularly correspond with on here, but otherwise is very creepy in general. I did not stick around to see if I could change it; it was just a little too weird, and so -needless to say- I removed the counter from my site.
It kind of reminded me of the time (before I knew ANYTHING about computers) when I needed to inform my Comp. II instructor that I had a personal female problem (with specifics, by the way), and I somehow sent to email to my entire class list serve.
Bummer.
Later-
Faye
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
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Yeah, you know... computers really freak me out too. This is partly because my boyfriend is a systems IT guy, and he now has me paranoid about identity theft and whatnot. But still. It's kind of weird how much information you can get online.
ReplyDeleteYour sending-a-personal-hygiene-email-
to-your-whole-class story brought me right on back to college.... see, I was taking Abnormal Psych with a few friends (I went to a women's college, by the way), and a few of us began drawing some, ahem, dirty pictures - TOTALLY relevant to the class material, by the way - and somehow they ended up in the teacher's hands. I intelligently had written my NAME on said pictures, and the teacher (who was slightly perverse) confronted me directly at the following class about the drawings. I was mortified. And I've done enough stupid stuff to not get embarassed by shit like that anymore.... ahhh well.
-Lauren