Thieves, beware!
Posted on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 at 7:42 pmAt our monthly all-staff meeting today, we had a presentation on identity theft. Which is all well and good, except that I swear we just had one maybe 4 months ago. We get it. Protect ourselves.
(Though obviously there are people out there who need help. For example: The woman who lived in my apartment before me. She didn’t bother changing her address with the post office. When I moved in, I found a check for her deposit sitting in the mailbox. Since then I’ve gotten her bank statements and, even better, her credit card. Yep. Apparently her old one expired, so I now have her new one. Man, she’s lucky I’m honest.)
Anyway. One of the things the presenter talked about was identity theft and social networking sites. I thought that might be interesting–I can definitely see how Facebook, particularly, might lend itself to identity theft if you’re not careful. Except that the only thing she gave as an example was Tony LaRussa (of the football team the St. Louis Cardinals, according to her) suing Twitter (not that she said Twitter) because of the profile someone set up using his name. Sigh. Yeah. Before she talks, she might want to have looked into this a bit. She obviously has no idea what Twitter is like. Tons of celebrities have people set up fake profiles. It happens. I mean, I’m following “Peter Angelos” on Twitter (and I totally recommend it–it’s hilarious; from today: “This year, we’re drafting Matt Wieter’s [sic] DNA in the first round”). I’m following FakeRahmEmanuel, for heaven’s sake. I hate it when presentations have potential, then don’t live up to them. Particularly when it’s 45 minutes in the middle of what turned out to be a nearly 2-hour meeting. Good times.
On the positive side, I did make a list for myself of things I need to do for our conference. So that’s good.