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When you Google your ex

Monday, August 31st, 2009

We’ve all wondered about certain exes- where they are, what they’re up to – but would you use technology to keep tabs on them?
Is it cyber-snooping or just or just a healthy curiosity? A legal love-hunt or the beginning of a stalking addiction?
Read an article of a writer who talk to most people and according to her, they’ll admit to having Google an ex or two.

IN THE BEGINNING
You know how it is; you’re wondering how and where they are and suddenly you’re trawling through 80 pages of namesakes- IT specialists, basketball players and some university professor who’s just written a paper on a coldsore cure.
Never a quitter, you plough on and before you know it, you’re singed up as a fully fledged cyber-stalker.

CYBER SLEUTH
So, why is it so irresistible? Ideally it’s a low-risk, civilized way of sleuthing someone without them knowing about it.
It’s more challenging than Friends Reunited, but no investment is needed in terms of contact.
On the darker side, we run the risk of discovering (if we still care) that out erstwhile lovers’ lives didn’t stop when we/they kicked them/us out.

NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS
Googling barely confirms someone’s existence. So what if we draw an absolute blank?
Some said it’s always quite satisfying when you don’t actually find anything. Others gone online a few times to look up a particular lowlife who adid the dirty on them and then finding nothing on them sort of confirming to herself that no what a no-mark loser the other party was.

HIT AND MISS
Which implies there’s some sort of kudos attached to a Google hit.
Not always so.
According to a 29 years old woman, “I googled my ex and found a story from a local paper about him being convicted for drug offenses and burglary, which was sad, but not exactly a surprise.”
Googling “the one who got away” can become dangerous, especially if it becomes an obsession.
It’s one thing to find out, say, that he’s recently been on a charity trek to India or to look up his holiday snaps.
It’s quite another if you start Googling him daily.

FATAL ATTRACTION
A computer-savvy marketing manager is ashamed to say she’s gone even further.
“I found myself digging up information on a gorgeous bloke I had a torrid fling with and his girlfriend. I discovered photos of her and became obsessed. Then I figured out a way of deleting the pictures from the website.”
But be careful – what seems like an innocent search might open a painful can of worms if unreconciled feelings still lurk.
Another girl got a shock when she was Googled by her first true love.
“We’d been together for a few years when I was 16, but it all ended when he two-timed me with my best-friend.
“I moved away and started running a business.
“He tracked me down last year via my website and we met. He said the day day I dumped him was the worst day of his life. It blew my mind, but we’re both married with kids and it’s in the past.”

BLOG OFF
And what of the boom in blogging, where people choose to lay bare their innermost workings for public consumption?
For a guy, who was 30, it was a case of too much information.
“I googled my (now) ex-girlfriend when were still together. She had a blog and to my horror was talking about what a jerk I was and how she banging on about how good the sex with the other person,” a guy said.
It all goes to show that, when we Google, we might find out a few things we didn’t bargain for.
Let’s face it, there’s nothing wrong with casually looking up on an old flame to see what’s happened to them.
But if you’re still feeling bitter, sad or obsessed, you could develop an e-stalking habit what’s hard to break.
In which case: switch off that machine, build a bridge and just get over it.

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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

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Blogger to Wordpress

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

Finally I moved in. I mean my blog. It’s been a while that I’m planning this but I was confuse before because I didn’t buy any domain. I have to give up the free domain from blogspot and buy new in my own hosting server. Surely I lost Google juices. It doesn’t matter as long as I now have the full handle of my love blog. I will going to delete omalyn.blogspot.com when the right time came.
I just love Wordpress platform blog. I find it easy to manage. What more I love to do in this platform the ability to choose and upload lots of beautiful wordpress themes and you can change your theme easily depends on the season or what kind of blog you have. The useful plug-ins that you can use. I love the theme I’m using at present. Perfect for the coming Valentines and it suits with the category of my blog as well. Although not red, but pink perfect is pretty. I’m looking at joomla templates for wordpress and they have very cool themes too. Premium wordpress themes and joomla templates are free and take note, these themes usually cost $50-100 to buy each! So hurry up guys while it’s free and available.
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Lonely hearts warned of ‘money mules’ scam

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Lonely hearts and dating website users could be unwittingly enlisted as ‘money mules’ by international money laundering rings, police say.
People answering seemingly legitimate job or dating ads can be stung by the scam, the Australian Federal Police and Australian Bankers Association warn.
‘Money mules’ allow their bank account to receive a deposit of stolen funds – the money is then washed through another account, minus a commission.
These ‘commission payments’ could land ‘money mules’ in strife, the AFP Australian High Tech Crime Centre director James McCormack says.
Anyone allowing their account to be used in this way has profited from the proceeds of fraud and could face 20 years in jail, Mr McCormack says.

“You would be very suspicious if someone you didn’t know asked you to carry a package or money overseas, and similarly, you should be very suspicious about someone asking you to transfer money in and out of your bank account to other accounts.”
An increasingly common method of enlisting `money mules’ is to form a relationship with dating website members before fleecing them of cash, the Australian Bankers Association says.
The ‘romance scams’ involve criminals targeting singles, asking for money to be transferred for airfares to enable the `couple’ to meet, the association’s chief executive David Bell said.
“The customers who respond to this email also leave themselves at risk of identity theft, as the criminals ask for confidential bank account details,” he said.

Source: www.theage.com.au

Love made over the net

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Do you really believe that love can be found online? It’s hard for me to agree with it at first but there were lots of proof about it. Most of my blogger friends does and that love is not that simple as you can imagine. I mean sharing thoughts with someone you meet online, problems, ideas and then love is eventually developed and it’s more tender than any other. A lot of people are looking for their match online. Hoping one of this day they will meet their soulmate and now I believe that it can be true.
I ask my friends how did it happened and mostly said they only start to meet new friends but later on conversations become exciting because as what I have said finding soulmate is taking its place. They found someone that has the same with what they likes and their dislikes and many more what you can imagine.
So if you’re still finding the love of your life unsuccessfully, then try search them in Internet world. Try primedatingsites.com and you’ll never know your soulmate is waiting for you.