Internet so many ways to hurt : Part-3

Part 3: Real world, Cyber world

You thought your cyber life will not impact your real life. Since we have touched on issues of how social networking sites have impact on your real life. Let see some more ways, how you may make a bad first impression.

Not able to find suitable life-partner?

Probably should check, if some portion of you online identity is objectionable, posting pictures of getting drunk in Goa, may get likes from friends but will surely keep the prospective in-laws away.

No landlord wants to give you his flat for rent?

Sharing pictures and videos of those wild-parties “#totally got wasted yesterday”, dirty flat pictures “#I haven’t cleaned the room in six month’s… LOL!” was not a good idea. Neither was trashing the place after weekend party and disturbing neighbors.

Getting soliciting calls on your mobile. Getting a lot of spam mails.

Then consider this leaving your phone number and email account at forums, at dubious website, for different Ponzi schemes is never a good idea.

Have to get rid of your mobile connection, because you ran up the bill too high by using 3G/4G?

Generally when internet packs are sold the details are obfuscated by service provider, it’s your job to clear up everything. Buying a 3G data plan with 1GB free limit and no bill shield is certainly affordable, but after free limit the charges are on per kilobyte basis, watching videos online after getting drunk may be fun but in the morning you will have to sell your kidneys to pay for that bill, losing the connection is a better option.

Got a Wi-Fi connection and got no idea how to secure it?

Be assured that things like somebody using your IP for illegal activities and stealing your internet, running up your internet bill, happens to somebody other.

General rule, “What can be used, can be misused and what can be misused can abused, and what can be abused shall certainly be abused.”

Got banned from a site? Friends or family not amused by your last comment online? What comment you ask?

Probably someone else was trolling using your account, you may not necessarily be hacked, you may have left a session logged in a public computer, or office common computer or some friends computer or a device, shared your password online, left you password written on your desk so on…

Lost a bet? Made a fool of yourself, because you took things on internet as facts?

This happens to every one of us, until we become jaded by internet and stop believing everything online. Wikipedia has come under fire for such thing as people can write/update things on Wikipedia you may use Wikipedia for knowledge but for facts you should verify before saying I read that on Wikipedia. Similarly on forums if you read advice, it may not be 100% correct. You have to check facts and do the research yourself.

This is all I can think of at this moment; do leave a comment if you remember some other ways internet can hurt. 

Thanks for reading.