We all know about Bill's hedonistic tendencies. Here they plan, Sandy Berger, the NS Adviser and Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State, to get bush for all Americans. I made this up.
• Stay away from calling a woman fat. Even if asked, don't confirm the obvious. Don't go the other way in such extreme she'll get bent out of shape. A good way out is, "Honey, I love you, I love you, I love you, my eyes are blind; all I see is my love for you, bay- bee!"
• Never provide photo, address, anything that can be used to locate or harm you or family. Would you like to wake up to photo-montages of you in an orgy and you didn't even enjoy the possible fun of it? Believe me, it's a very time consuming job to go trace the hosts of all possible versions of these pics and beg to have them removed.
• Never provide information when participating in a board you will be sorry for if misconstrued elsewhere. Some board conversations do show up on the Net. Always think the Net is invasive, pervasive and blind to ethical issues. It's a machine or several machines.
• Be ever so careful on MySpace, especially now that Google,Inc. has 900 million dollars in MySpace. I was reading a research paper on Google's orkut.com, a senior relationship site, plagued with xenophobia, racism, child porn and pedophilia, hate crimes, according to SaferNet.com, an NGO in Brazil. Their count is some tens of thousands of reports. Google never does anything about blog complaints or orkut. So, if you happen to get into a tight spot, and I did, don't say nobody told you.
• There's nothing free. Blogger is free as it indexes more info for Google. Same as MySpace will have data analized for Google advertisements. That is where Google makes money. I moved to typepad.com and am very happy. It's worth evey cent I pay them. They are friendly, helpful and screen comments.
• Never for a moment think you can really be annonymous on the Net and stay that way. Yesterday I glanced at a story on the cover of the Long Angles Tunes about a mystery. There was no mystery. A girl, Lonely117, started posting on Utoob, and the buzz about her was really big. Was she a fake? Y!
Some techie tracked her IP straight to a very famous talent agency. Then it was found they already have a horror movie script in the works for Miss Fake.
• Ultimately, trust those who know more than you do about the Net. I just got out, I hope, of a very ugly situation and deeply regret not having had more caution. Be safe, it is a jungle out there and law enforcement hasn't begun to understand what board, blog, relationship site, chat mean. They'll say they take reports of crimes, your complaint is not about a crime, and why don't you just get away from the Net?
•The Net is for all. Just learn how to use it judicously. And that is all for now, just crossing my fingers ABC will listen to reason and pull this silly docudrama while there is time. The docu part is lies and the drama is the number of people who will believe it "because it's on TV...:P"
If you'll click on Condi you will see how the Bushies were grilled in 2004
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