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Your Online Profile Actually Tells a Lot About You

Posted June 30, 2008 8:31 AM

From Slashdot:

An anonymous reader writes "Despite all the media reports that your Facebook profile is giving the wrong impression, a psychological study shows people really can understand your personality from your online profile. Turns out you're not giving the wrong impression with your profile; you're giving the right impression to the wrong people.

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Re: Your Online Profile Actually Tells a Lot About You

07/01/2008 10:32 PM

Some of the replies to the article are far more interesting than the article itself.

Anyone who places much personal detail on Facebook, Bebo or the like, is asking for trouble, not the least of which is Identity theft.

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07/02/2008 2:03 AM

They can have my identity - and my bills!

- europium (Facebook profile says too lazy to log in to CR4)

PS: I didn't post that. Someone who stole my identity did. -e

PPS: bullsh!t u did 2! dont blame it on me just cuz I stole ur id! -e'

PPPS: shaddup, both of u! i got his credit cards, u got his credit history (hahahaha), an he got nothin. happy now? -e''
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Re: Your Online Profile Actually Tells a Lot About You

07/03/2008 2:53 AM

Hello Guest,

It's truly dreadful when someone steals a person's identity, as appears to have happened to you, since you are now just an "Guest", one of many thousands of "Guests".

Perhaps the CR4 Admin should consider "Guests" to have an appended Number, so perhaps you may be "Guest5943" or some similar cognomen, which would still preserve your but allow the correct GA points to accrue properly, into your account.

Be a Registered Member of CR4 Forum, and start each day, gruntled.

Kind Regards....

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