Be careful about what you post publicly

[Rata-tat-tat]

Yeah, and in a half-hearted attempt to bring the thread back on topic -

If you do end up singing about some other pretty girl, and let's face it, it just cannot be avoided sometimes -

DO be careful about what you post publicly...

There's all sorts of people watching us... her mother, your wife, your wife's mother, her even... and let's not forget her husband, and some bloke in the USA that you've confided in, the taxman, your next door neighbour who could hear you recording it while your wife was away, your kids and ex-wife you haven't seen for 15 years, ex-band members, work-colleagues, the ticket inspector on the train...

The list is endless...

It's not just them unknown buggers who want to steal your assorted piles of money and your collections of guitars and rather fetching 80s jackets... no...

On the internet, it's the people that you actually know who are likely to end up reading stuff that you didn't really intend for them to hear

OK I'm screwed!!!! Thanks for the reminder Andy.

[AndyR]

And for the record... none of what I said in that post bears any resemblance, whatsoever, to any circumstances, real or imagined, that are in any way connected to AndyR - it was all for illustrative purposes...

Honest...

(Hi dear! Nice to see you reading up on what I post on the interweb )

[Tony W]

https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=15910.0;msg=199171

Tony..where do you live again?  I need a new guitar!

Yup , i am in Florida!  Feel free to stop by my house and go shopping.  Dont mind Kerry, my lead guitarist, he is great on paper, but never actually shot at a person before. He and my dog are on duty this week.

[Gnasty]

https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=15910.0;msg=199171

Tony..where do you live again?  I need a new guitar!

Yup , i am in Florida!  Feel free to stop by my house and go shopping.  Dont mind Kerry, my lead guitarist, he is great on paper, but never actually shot at a person before. He and my dog are on duty this week.

Tony? You need to watch that Can-US tug-of-war vid again! 

[Tony W]

I favorited that video..... I'm back home, so whoever wants to stop by and rob me, please do it while I'm at home and not during the day like the last asshole did.

[kenny mac]

This threads worth a bump .

[Flash Harry]

I had forgotten this one.

[Johnny Robbo]

On a general level, I am always shocked by the amount of personal info people share - especially on social media. And it's not just the criminal fraternity that make use of it.

Imagine if the government were logging all of the following information about you:

Your political opinions
Who your friends are
Which of those friends you interact with the most
Your whereabouts
Your taste in music & TV

There would  be an outcry about intrusive surveillance, right? Well here's the thing - if you ARE on social media (and I'm not) - all of this info is being logged and compiled into a continuously updated dossier on you. The difference is that, unlike a government, you can't vote Mark Zuckerberg out of office if you disagree with what he does with your personal data. With a government, you can.

I'm not some tin-foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist, I just find it bizarre that the people who are often quick to complain about "the state" intruding into their private lives with CCTV and so-on, are often the same folks who willingly surrender all kinds of personal info to a giant, unaccountable global corporate behemoth like Facebook.

Here's a clip from one of my favourite sitcoms, The IT Crowd...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rNgCnY1lPg

Enough said