Comments on: The importance of NOT giving out PII http://www.michealcottingham.com/blog/2008/08/18/the-importance-of-not-giving-out-pii/ Just another useless blog Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:05:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Dave Rathbun http://www.michealcottingham.com/blog/2008/08/18/the-importance-of-not-giving-out-pii/#comment-55 Dave Rathbun Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:41:05 +0000 http://www.michealcottingham.com/blog/?p=31#comment-55 This is one reason why I don't have a page on facebook / linkedin / myspace / any of those other "social networking" sites, whether they're promoted as being professional or not. I don't give out my birthday or other information to people I really trust if they don't need it... why should I give it to the rest of the world? Although I did get one interesting tidbit of feedback from someone a long time ago... he suggested that even if you don't use a service (like myspace or facebook) you should at least register your name and keep up a placeholder page. The idea: keep someone else from using the same name and possibly getting associated with you. I guess it makes sense. Never did it though. This is one reason why I don’t have a page on facebook / linkedin / myspace / any of those other “social networking” sites, whether they’re promoted as being professional or not. I don’t give out my birthday or other information to people I really trust if they don’t need it… why should I give it to the rest of the world?

Although I did get one interesting tidbit of feedback from someone a long time ago… he suggested that even if you don’t use a service (like myspace or facebook) you should at least register your name and keep up a placeholder page. The idea: keep someone else from using the same name and possibly getting associated with you. I guess it makes sense. Never did it though.

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