New Poll Time: Are you who you say you are?
Thursday, February 1, 2007 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Time to retire the current poll asking for feedback on the new WinCustomize.com. In the two weeks we ran the poll, 1,024 votes were cast, making it one of our more successful polls to date. We were looking for the general reaction to the new site design and here's the general gist of things:
Fully 58% of you either loved it or really liked it.
About 16.8% of you are OK with the site.
5.96% are simply indifferent.
And we've inflicted emotional pain and suffering upon a whopping 18.75% of our user base.
All things considered, those are very good numbers for a site redesign and launch! We know people don't always like change and that it's hard to get accustomed to, but overall, the community here at WinCustomize has handled it well and embraced the new site.
With that said... it's time for a new poll...
Here at WinCustomize, we interact with many people from all over the globe each and every day. We take it on a certain degree of faith that the person we're chatting with on the forums or IRC that they are who they say they are... at least for the most part. Sure, we may lie a little about our age, maybe fudge a bit on how glamorous our job may be, but we figure we've all been around enough to get a feel for who the person on the other side of the screen is.
Well, maybe not.
Read/WriteWeb.com has been running a reader poll asking users "In your current web activities where an identity is required, do you ever fake all or part of your identity?" Turns out this question has yielded some interesting results. Fully 55% of the respondents say they regularly or always use fake web personalities. Only 12% claim to always be honest about who they are. This is particularly interesting as increasing amounts of attention are given to sites like MySpace and other social network systems where teens seem to be giving away too much information about who they are.
So our new poll is more or less lifted from R/WW, but I'm interested in seeing how the WC community specifically responds. My guess is we're more honest than most places.
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Reply #42 Friday, February 2, 2007 8:02 PM
I told you not to give out free stickers for every response... nuk nuk nuk.....
Reply #44 Friday, February 2, 2007 8:47 PM
When I get run over by a bus.....the autopsy will identify me as 'Jafo' as it's tattooed on my left shoulder....
If they can't find my left shoulder then I'll be identified as Marvin - right shoulder. Then there's forearms.... OK, so it might get confusing...
No, I'm not sad and pathetic having the tattoo 'Jafo' for my online personna.....I'm sad and pathetic for having the tattoo 'Jafo' for my position as Observer in Motor Races - it's that image in my Avatar...[to be fair that's been around 30 years now]...
Zoomba's right of course. It's never really a good idea to impart too much detail of your identity, and particularly that's an issue for the young.
Reply #46 Friday, February 2, 2007 8:57 PM
Zoomba & Jafo are right. Had a bad experience with some teenage ICQ stalkers back in the nineties, until I talked with their dad's. Yep, I'm a b@st@rd.
Reply #47 Saturday, February 3, 2007 4:40 AM
| Zoomba : And VistaRevolution - Your teachers' advice is spot-on. Don't reveal more about yourself or your location than you have to. You'd be surprised how easy it would be for someone to find you just based on what you've posted here on this thread. |
I really think you should edit out VistaRevolutions real name and State. This is so scary that kids give out this info without realizing how dangerous it could be. I know this is just a skinning site but the info does show up on google searches.
Reply #48 Saturday, February 3, 2007 10:55 AM
That's NEW Mexico, it's in the USA.
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Reply #51 Monday, February 5, 2007 12:38 AM
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Reply #41 Friday, February 2, 2007 8:02 PM
But what one says of oneself in the forums for example. Or our description.