(no subject)

[pez]

Now that semishade has pointed it out, the "school" LJ userinfo feature really is a bad bad idea. There are enough stories in the news about children being stalked and groomed in chat rooms, thinking it's safe to give their personal information over and then end up in paedophile's hands. I'd hate to think some guy can read a teenager's journal, comment in it, learn all about the kid and befriend the kid and then turn up at the kid's school gates just because the school feature passively encourage people to make that information public.

(If you ask me, this feature is never going to grow. With volunteers, they won't ever be able to keep up with updating the list and verifying entries. It's an unsustainable idea to begin with - they've bitten off more than they could chew.)

Right right, going to bed now, really.

Comments

[chinawolf.livejournal.com]

... but aren't people able to just add their school?? Maybe I misunderstood the thing, it's not like I'm gonna use it anyway and only glanced at it.

[chinawolf.livejournal.com]

Oh, and also, I agree on the issue itself. Bad, bad idea to have this public.

[lina-lau.livejournal.com]

Bleagh, who would want to put their school in their user info anyway? o_O;

Friend seems to be unreachable right now, so how about shopping tomorrow (or maybe today is more appropriate now)? 8D Need to see if she phones tomorrow morning, but I'm assuming she's not going, so. :x ♥

[lina-lau.livejournal.com]

>.> She just called and said she could make it after all. :/ We can go next weekend? =D ♥ Cousin said he would be able to come out and pay you and pick up the figurine then too! And I think he wants to ask how it came up to £140 or something. Not that he doesn't trust you, but he just wanted to know the cost breakdowns. x3

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and say I'm 14 and not very intelligent (your average teenager). I list my school in my userinfo. That's just advertising to people where I go everyday, and people can include paedophiles and stalkers -_-

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

XD Okay. Give me a poke next week then :)

And sure~ here's the bill thing:

$195.25 - auction item #n22940474
$7.75 - Total internal shipping charge(s)
$2.00 - Total wire fee(s)
$23.00 - Total commission fee(s)
$17.15 - Total shipping Japan to UK
------------
$245.15 - Balance due

(shoppingmalljapan.com charged 20500yen auction at 1USD = 105JPY)
PayPal conversion rate when I paid: 1USD = 1.76GBP

Which makes it about £139 =D