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It enhances bad behavior from men because they it helps them "hide" their user name. Also, if you think that men are immune from cyber-stalking and harassment,
by officemonkey 9y ago
It enhances bad behavior from men because they it helps them "hide" their user name. Also, if you think that men are immune from cyber-stalking and harassment, you haven't been dating on-line very much.
Frankly, it's a bad idea to supply ANY personal information to random strangers (like on a dating website.) If you have an unusual first name, it's almost trivial to search Facebook to find someone.
There are certain communities (such as people who are genderqueer and transsexual) who experience targeted harassment. Asking users to expose additional personally identifying information is a really shitty thing to do.
- oxplot 9y ago> it's a bad idea to supply ANY personal information to random strangers How about your photos? Those are as PII as it gets. If you're not careful (and majority of people aren't), and upload the same photo you use for your linkedin or twitter account, a 5 second Google Image search can easily reveal your true identity. In fact, I have, in the past, emailed OKC and others and asked them to put measures in place so when a user uploads a photo, it's checked against various sources online and if it's a match, the user would be warned that it's potentially revealing their identity. I'm not sure if they took note of that.
- gaius 9y agoThe old pre-Match OKC might have, they were proper old-skool data geeks. Match execs won't have understood what any of those words meant.