I have a bigger problem with Item 4 on that list of scoops.

If anybody on the internet wants to find me, it shouldn't take them too long. The only time it got a bit creepy is when someone posted a google map of my home address in a public forum. As I said elsewhere, I'm not too worried about people paying me visits... my house is protected by a Glock, Model 17L, security system. But..... that's me.... others may feel differently.

You can verify people's identity with a third party verification see more service and give them a 'Verified' badge, rather than displaying their name and address. As I said in the forums, there just might be a few women on this site that do not want to disclose their name and address. Yes I know, nobody mentioned addresses, but once you have the full name and city, the rest is easy.

Andrew Boon said:

Personally, I think that privacy is over-rated. Web anonymity is a cool feature, but is a feature of the past, that's slowly dying, like it or not.


Hmmmm............

Andrew, I don't know what internet you've been watching, but it must be a different one than I'm watching. Issues involving internet privacy, and identity theft, are some of the hottest topics of the day.

You can't compare sites like Facebook and Linkedin, to sites built using the Dolphin platform. When somebody has a Dolphin site with 100 million members, maybe.... but until then, you can't compare yourself with sites that have huge support staffs to monitor every single thing that goes on.

Your average Dolphin site is probably going to have a few sickos, and that includes this one, so I understand why some people might not want their name and address made public. For one thing, once you do that, you'll have every siteripper on the planet on Boonex.com, harvesting all that information.

Boonex already has my name and address, along with a photocopy of my drivers license, so you know who I am. There's no reason why Boonex shouldn't be able to do the thing that will cause the least amount of hard feelings. As I have already said in the forums, verify the identity of those you can, but keep the info to yourself. Verify sellers 100% and all make all others voluntary. Give a 'Verified' badge to those with verified identities. Keep in mind, that you actually have to verify their identities, and that's more involved than just filling out two profile fields. Two people need only to know the others identities if they are involved in a financial transaction.


P.S.

Hey LightWolf.... my uncle Charles would like to know your real name.

Sincerely,

Joe Manson