Comments on: Anonymity Vs. Internet Exposure – Striking The Internet Balance http://www.voiceemporium.com/archives/05/striking-the-internet-balance/ All About Your Voice & Marketing It Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:05:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dan Garlick http://www.voiceemporium.com/archives/05/striking-the-internet-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Dan Garlick Mon, 25 May 2009 02:16:06 +0000 http://voiceover-casting.com/emporium/?p=846#comment-148 Hi Taji Great site, well written articles ! If you don’t have my website on your list, please add. www.ozvoxaudio.com Regards Dan Hi Taji

Great site, well written articles !
If you don’t have my website on your list, please add.
http://www.ozvoxaudio.com

Regards

Dan

]]> By: julialombardo http://www.voiceemporium.com/archives/05/striking-the-internet-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-151 julialombardo Sun, 24 May 2009 18:39:29 +0000 http://voiceover-casting.com/emporium/?p=846#comment-151 I'm very careful about the information I put on the Web, for a variety of reasons. My dad worked in the correctional system for many years, and with three daughters, he was very protective of us. I am extremely security conscious, having heard, "Lock your doors. Do you know what happens to people who don't lock their doors?" Today, I even lock my front door before going out to get the mail. Trust me, guys, anybody can find you. No matter how careful you are (and I am VERY careful!), the Internet has virtually (no pun intended) ended privacy. This is actually the main reason I almost DIDN'T put my profile on VO Casting. Go to http://www.publicdata.com and look up predators in your area for free. I told one of my clients about this site and she found a predator living in a home that she and her 5-year-old son walked by every day. I even found a predator's address that was directly across the street from a park with lots of kids. My checks have only my name - no address, phone number, etc. I don't write my credit card number on the payment check to my credit card company, and I never disclose personal information to acquaintances. I have been asked on several occasions to be added as a friend to Facebook profiles, and I refuse. I have no profile on MySpace or Twitter, and in fact the ONLY sites I contribute my name to are business-related only. Coincidentally, just the other day, I found my name and home address on a Web site, and I had them remove it. And I am so careful! There is even a site that connected my name to "possible relatives," and both my sisters were on there, my brother, and even my uncle. I met a gang unit police officer once at a local gym and couldn't believe how EASY it was to get his private home address. If I can do it, so can the gang members he puts away! I never fill out those product registration cards, because they are just marketing tools, and believe me, guys, your name is passed around and sold to mailing lists all the time. I keep one step ahead of the game by using an alternate address so that people can't find me that easily. How do they get your name? Whenever you buy a home, that's a public property record. If you are a registered voter, certain counties will open those records free to the public. And when you write a check that has your address/phone number, your name is passed around and sold to marketing companies for their mailing lists. Even your bank/credit card company will disclose your name to their "affiliate" companies. I have been followed numerous times. One guy followed me more than 20 miles across 2 freeways. I kept driving in circles, because I wasn't going to lead him to where I lived. He finally got tired and gave up. Another time when I was followed, I drove into a local sheriff's station parking lot. The guy tried to flirt with me, so I pretended that I couldn't speak English. Nobody in my part of the country speaks French, so I figured I could fake it. At first he didn't believe me, but the more I kept talking, the more he believed it. I was calling him all kinds of names and he didn't know what I was saying! When he was convinced that I couldn't speak English, he proceeded to say what he wanted to do. Then I REALLY started calling him derogatory names in French! Every once in a while someone asks me why I do not exercise outdoors, and 100% of the time it's a guy who asks the question. That's because women already know the answer. I have been followed by cars, harassed, nearly hit on numerous occasions, and even threatened. When I was still in school, a guy in one of my classes, who worked in the campus library, looked up student records, found out where I lived (at an unlisted address), and watched me for weeks. My neighbors called the police, but when the officer arrived and asked the two guys in the car what they were doing, one of them pulled out a Private Investigator badge, and so the cops left. (Doesn't that give you a real secure feeling?!!) After receiving an ultimatum letter (meet me at this time or else), that was it. I knew his class schedule, and tracked him down. After telling me the whole sordid story of what he and his friend had done and were yet planning to do, I was blown away. He told me that if I wanted to call the police and file a report, that he "would gladly take any punishment, because it would be worth it to still have you in my life. And if I never hear from you after this, I'll never bother you again." I never contacted him and true to his word, I never saw or heard from him again. I’m very careful about the information I put on the Web, for a variety of reasons. My dad worked in the correctional system for many years, and with three daughters, he was very protective of us. I am extremely security conscious, having heard, “Lock your doors. Do you know what happens to people who don’t lock their doors?” Today, I even lock my front door before going out to get the mail.
Trust me, guys, anybody can find you. No matter how careful you are (and I am VERY careful!), the Internet has virtually (no pun intended) ended privacy. This is actually the main reason I almost DIDN’T put my profile on VO Casting.
Go to http://www.publicdata.com and look up predators in your area for free. I told one of my clients about this site and she found a predator living in a home that she and her 5-year-old son walked by every day. I even found a predator’s address that was directly across the street from a park with lots of kids.
My checks have only my name – no address, phone number, etc. I don’t write my credit card number on the payment check to my credit card company, and I never disclose personal information to acquaintances.
I have been asked on several occasions to be added as a friend to Facebook profiles, and I refuse. I have no profile on MySpace or Twitter, and in fact the ONLY sites I contribute my name to are business-related only.
Coincidentally, just the other day, I found my name and home address on a Web site, and I had them remove it. And I am so careful! There is even a site that connected my name to “possible relatives,” and both my sisters were on there, my brother, and even my uncle.
I met a gang unit police officer once at a local gym and couldn’t believe how EASY it was to get his private home address. If I can do it, so can the gang members he puts away!
I never fill out those product registration cards, because they are just marketing tools, and believe me, guys, your name is passed around and sold to mailing lists all the time. I keep one step ahead of the game by using an alternate address so that people can’t find me that easily.
How do they get your name? Whenever you buy a home, that’s a public property record. If you are a registered voter, certain counties will open those records free to the public. And when you write a check that has your address/phone number, your name is passed around and sold to marketing companies for their mailing lists. Even your bank/credit card company will disclose your name to their “affiliate” companies.
I have been followed numerous times. One guy followed me more than 20 miles across 2 freeways. I kept driving in circles, because I wasn’t going to lead him to where I lived. He finally got tired and gave up.
Another time when I was followed, I drove into a local sheriff’s station parking lot. The guy tried to flirt with me, so I pretended that I couldn’t speak English. Nobody in my part of the country speaks French, so I figured I could fake it. At first he didn’t believe me, but the more I kept talking, the more he believed it. I was calling him all kinds of names and he didn’t know what I was saying! When he was convinced that I couldn’t speak English, he proceeded to say what he wanted to do. Then I REALLY started calling him derogatory names in French!
Every once in a while someone asks me why I do not exercise outdoors, and 100% of the time it’s a guy who asks the question. That’s because women already know the answer.
I have been followed by cars, harassed, nearly hit on numerous occasions, and even threatened.
When I was still in school, a guy in one of my classes, who worked in the campus library, looked up student records, found out where I lived (at an unlisted address), and watched me for weeks.
My neighbors called the police, but when the officer arrived and asked the two guys in the car what they were doing, one of them pulled out a Private Investigator badge, and so the cops left. (Doesn’t that give you a real secure feeling?!!)
After receiving an ultimatum letter (meet me at this time or else), that was it. I knew his class schedule, and tracked him down.
After telling me the whole sordid story of what he and his friend had done and were yet planning to do, I was blown away.
He told me that if I wanted to call the police and file a report, that he “would gladly take any punishment, because it would be worth it to still have you in my life. And if I never hear from you after this, I’ll never bother you again.”
I never contacted him and true to his word, I never saw or heard from him again.

]]> By: Bettye Zoller http://www.voiceemporium.com/archives/05/striking-the-internet-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-150 Bettye Zoller Sun, 24 May 2009 16:34:25 +0000 http://voiceover-casting.com/emporium/?p=846#comment-150 If you don't have my website on your list, please add. www.voicesvoices.com Thank you Bettye Zoller And I love getting your emails and your thoughts are right on most of the time. I tell all my seminars about you and your site and urge them to subscribe,. If you don’t have my website on your list, please add.
http://www.voicesvoices.com

Thank you
Bettye Zoller

And I love getting your emails and your thoughts are right on most of the time. I tell all my seminars about you and your site and urge them to subscribe,.

]]> By: brianhudson http://www.voiceemporium.com/archives/05/striking-the-internet-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-152 brianhudson Sun, 24 May 2009 15:07:03 +0000 http://voiceover-casting.com/emporium/?p=846#comment-152 Fascinating video included in this absolutely amazing post. Thank you Taji. p.s. if any stalker women out there in cyberspace are reading, your being stalked too! Fascinating video included in this absolutely amazing post.
Thank you Taji.
p.s. if any stalker women out there in cyberspace are reading, your being stalked too!

]]> By: flyingdutchman http://www.voiceemporium.com/archives/05/striking-the-internet-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-149 flyingdutchman Sun, 24 May 2009 13:26:39 +0000 http://voiceover-casting.com/emporium/?p=846#comment-149 As always, you're making some excellent points, Taji. Two days after I put my Skype ID on my website, I got a call from a Nigerian lady who was definitely not interested in my voice-over services. So, Skype is out. Having an internet presence is a double-edged sword. On one hand you want people to find you because it could generate business. On the other hand we need to filter the cyberstalkers out. Speaking of stalkers.... In the old days, people used to file law suits if they were being followed around relentlessly. These days, people pride themselves in being followed.... on Twitter. It's a weird world we live in. One last word on your vo-directory. Some of us are leaders and others are followers. In a way, we're all on the same bus. However, you like to be in the driver's seat and others are very comfortable being a passenger. That's why we have more people observing a game than there are playing on the field. The only way we're going to make this networking site relevant is if people decide to become participants instead of observers. Otherwise it's just another gallery of names floating around in a meaningless virtual world. As always, you’re making some excellent points, Taji. Two days after I put my Skype ID on my website, I got a call from a Nigerian lady who was definitely not interested in my voice-over services. So, Skype is out. Having an internet presence is a double-edged sword. On one hand you want people to find you because it could generate business. On the other hand we need to filter the cyberstalkers out.

Speaking of stalkers…. In the old days, people used to file law suits if they were being followed around relentlessly. These days, people pride themselves in being followed…. on Twitter. It’s a weird world we live in.

One last word on your vo-directory. Some of us are leaders and others are followers. In a way, we’re all on the same bus. However, you like to be in the driver’s seat and others are very comfortable being a passenger. That’s why we have more people observing a game than there are playing on the field.

The only way we’re going to make this networking site relevant is if people decide to become participants instead of observers. Otherwise it’s just another gallery of names floating around in a meaningless virtual world.

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