CALLING ALL AFCERS.

[corknut]

ANNIKA. GUS. MARIAM. Cinna and I want you to come join Plurk and talk to us so we can have chatty funtimes like the days of old!

... Other than that this is kind of a useless post, but it's 4:30AM; what did you expect? Oh God I have to get up for class tomorrow.

Comments

[gussiki.livejournal.com]

I created an account and deleted it in two minutes because it scared me. It managed to figure out that Cinna was my friend (and this was pretty much two seconds after I registered), snagged my IP Address and figured out my city and put it on display for the world, and all my privacy options were set to wide open by default. The privacy settings seem to be even worse than Facebook's. DO NOT WANT!

Is it even possible to, I dunno, have it not blatantly tell the world everything there is to know about me? Is it possible to to have an account with a "fake" identity (ie like LJ) and not like an RL identity (ie like my Facebook)?

So stupid of me. I'm lucky there was a delete option - but nothing is ever deleted on the Intarwebz. Oh wait, look what I dug up: "You can delete your Plurk account at any time from your account page; however, please note that some identification and contact information may remain in our records for a short period of time."

Wait, they're Canadian? How can they exist when even Facebook violates Canadian privacy laws?

You can tell that I'm Not Impressed. :P

[banerry.livejournal.com]

... That is WEIRD. Nothing like that happened to me, and there's definitely a way to set it so it doesn't display private information-- for me, that was the default.

[gussiki.livejournal.com]

OK, so even though I should be working right now I tried again. It turns out you can manually change your location and hide it, but this option was under "Account Information" and not "Privacy." Not only that, but yesterday I couldn't even find "Account Information" because it's not in the same place as "Privacy."

Long story short... it is possible to hide private information, but it was set to "public" by default and I had to jump through hoops to figure out how to do it. Sort of like Facebook, actually.

My nickname on there is (unsurprisingly) gussiki.

[banerry.livejournal.com]

Huh. I could have sworn all that stuff was private for me at first.

/adds