Nanner Split said:

lordjedi said:

So they have your email address, so what? It would be like getting a message on a MySpace page.

WRONG

If someone that knows what they're doing gets hold of your e-mail address, they can access as much personal information as they want with a little work.

HAHAHAHA! That has got to be the biggest joke I've ever heard. Stop with the scare mongering. Go ahead and prove it. Here's an email address: findmenowyo@yahoo.com. Now get me all the details on it and I might believe you. Feel free to PM those details to me.

You're going to need a bit more information than just an email address in order to find real personal information. I'm not your average internet moron that creates a bunch of public profiles everywhere and puts all my personal information into them. I've been using online services since before BBSs became huge, so I know a thing or two about keeping my identity private.

But this all comes back to the previous point. A modern 6 year old will naturally put in all the information a site asks for and they'll be truthful about it. But why does a 6 year old even need an email address? They don't. And even if they did, the parents should be monitoring the usage and making sure the 6 year old doesn't put anything in the profile that'll be made public.

When I was 6 we didn't have to worry about it since online services and email barely existed and none of them were interlinked. Today, everything you put out there is out there, which is why I'm pretty careful about what I put out there.

So go ahead and find all the information you can on that email address. I'm genuinely curious to see if you can even do anything with it besides send it some email. Have fun!