There was an internet "scavenger hunt" in class today. My professor wanted to show us just how extensive search engines are. I ended up finding an itinerary for Disneyland for a party of 3 adults and 3 children, getting to the last step of buying a segway(vehicle) specific book with a general title and a Roomba automatic house cleaner, and finding a paper the professor submitted to a committee quite a few years ago. Those were the easy results- found them within ten minutes on my low receptivity smart phone. One of the more challenging things to find was the professor's sister's married name. Only knowing the professor's first and last name I found out that he had three sister's and only two were married. I ended up picking the one he wasn't asking about but it was still frightening how easily the information was available.
As a global society we're going to need to improve our habits about how we treat trolls and haters who bring their negative intentions into the physical world. It's one thing to talk trash to someone online but when the information is available to bring pain to someone in real life; a limit has to be set.
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