Disclosing personal info online... is not kid's stuff!!! Risks are too great!!!
A matter of great importance 
!!!
"This video reveals the magic behind the magic, making people aware of the fact that their entire life can be found online!!!" 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7pYHN9iC9I
Oh, it's an ad for a bank! Had me fooled 
I nominate this for our Best Spam of the Year award 
@M2nc4s
Charlie
WOW yes interesting when put like that!
p.s and thats not my magic, there is real magic behind MistyMagic!
@M2nc4s
Listening .... One Step At A Time
@M2nc4s If the "Risks are too great!!!" what do you recommend people do? Not disclose anything online?
I think that the idea is that we all learn more about internet safety and then we can make our own judgment call?
@AffyAvo
Listening .... One Step At A Time
I agree. Allowing this kind of spam in our forums provides a revealing lesson in Internet safety 
For more information, look up viral marketing.
@MistyMagic
Charlie
I'm not even going to watch it. Eyes closed. 
From truthiness to truth
@MistyMagic I think that being aware and considering these factors is great. I feel like the tone is suggesting we not share personal info though, which seems odd considering the nature of this site - it's all about disclosing personal stuff in order to seek support.
I think it may be good to examine the purposes of some of the other things not about seeking support here. Fun things that aren't really support based but are more in terms of getting to know people, lightening the moods etc. that do disclose some information. I'm not totally opposed to them, but should we really be encouraging people to share things which might allow others to more easily identify them? Someone providing such information without being prompted is different than someone being asked for the info IMO.
That's an interesting point. People here share small amounts of personal information all the time, and computer systems can easily aggregate it. We're assured that 7 Cups only releases anonymized data, and I have no doubt that each separate piece of data is anonymous. But whether it's still anonymous in aggregate is perhaps a different matter.
What I mean is, no one in their right mind would ever disclose information in one chat or group discussion that would identify them in real life. But if they disclose some information in one chat, and then different information in another chat weeks or months later, and so on, and a computer system puts it all together, is there then a risk the system could identify them in real life?
Related to this, I suppose, is the ongoing mystery of why 7 Cups releases our e-mail addresses and ages hidden in every web page we view. Why would they fetch this information from the database and send it out on the Internet unless someone or something is intended to read it? I have mentioned this before, but the mystery has never been solved.
@AffyAvo
Charlie
@AffyAvo
Hold on, I'll try to explain why I've posted this link here (by the way... an issue that came up yesterday in the chatroom, where I suggested the idea of posting this cautionary warning -the mod gave his approval previously-).
Well, this video was intended to be used as a word of warning to anyone willing to share their personal data online. In other words, I wanted to increase public awareness of the risks/dangers of sharing personal info online and to encourage people to be proactive about the pitfalls associated with providing such kind of info.
So the point is... Understanding the key risks to disclosing personal information online, may help us to be safer and more secure online.
I agree with the point you intended to make, "Understanding the key risks to disclosing personal information online, may help us to be safer and more secure online."
But I disagree that the risks shown in the video are key risks. Not one of the people I have known at 7 Cups who were harmed as a result of being here, were harmed in the way the video shows. The key risks here are very different, in my experience.
For this reason I am unhappy when forum threads try to worry people about risks without any evidence that they are significant risks—especially so when worrying about these risks may draw attention away from more significant ones.
I am also unhappy when anyone uses 7 Cups to advertise a bank, even unintentionally.
@M2nc4s
Charlie
@RarelyCharlie I'm not totally against the ad aspect of it, although it is something to be good to be aware of as well. My profile picture is actually from an awareness campaign from a drug company - awareness about both the condition as well as a treatment option that they make 
What I didn't like was when we had the videos to watch specific to the site, (now they are connected to the growth path, I don't recall how they were introduced initially) and some were ads. There was insistance at the time that 7cups wouldn't have ads, yet it took me bringing up the issue a few times to get them taken off. To me, that crossed a boundary.
@M2nc4s I can understand that. I guess for me it's the tone
is not kid's stuff!!!
To me, this implies that kids shouldn't be doing it. I think there are reasonable ways for kids to share personal info online, and some schools even have assignments that require doing so. With medical management tools sometimes there are very excellent reasons for children to do so.
Risks are too great!!!
To me, it implies that due to the high level of risk, it means it isn't worth doing.
