People are paranoid about their online anonymity. On my recent apartment hunt I had to send emails to addresses like monkeys_for_toast@hotmail.com and wrong_said_fred@idc.com (I made those up so don’t test them). And on Facebook, every second day I get a message telling me to change  some obscure privacy setting so I don’t get photoshopped into a porn or something.

I haven’t really worried it about it all that much. I have emails addresses with my name in it and I hardly think twice about giving my name to some sports webpage sign up. I think about all the billions of people on the internet everyday and how small my little clicks must seem compared to swarming masses (maybe that’s another way to feel small, sorry Joe). Maybe I’m a little naive but I prefer a little naive to a little paranoid. But just today I got an interesting ad in my gmail (not a spam email, just an ad above my email) which made me feel that much safer:

Really internet? You’re concerned that I got suckered into a Mexican timeshare scam? You don’t know me at all internet.