This shit pisses me off. I don't know about you, but I don't like giving away my life to some company, even if it's one memory at a time.
Recently, I had to take an online test, so I had to register under my real name and use a real credit card. Yes, my own credit card and my own name and not one of the names I got from a child who died in infancy that I use in my other life as an international assassin and poet.
So now they have my real name. But during the test, I'm asked questions like:
"Name five people who are close to you." And, "Have you ever had a major illness?" "Where did you attend high school?"
The New York Times says, "These are some of the commonly asked 'fallback questions' that Web sites pose to users who need to reset their passwords."
In this case, these questions were meant to confirm my identity during the course of the test. After one hour I'm asked to name my high school; another hour later, I need to put down my major illness. This is to keep me from allowing someone else to take part of the test for me while I go out for a smoke.
But it didn't matter where I went to school because I lied to the online test. I kept my answers on a sheet of paper to refer to later if I needed to remember.
I lie to every website. I have a dog. I have a cat. I have a ferret. I am a man. I am a woman. I'm 90 years old. I'm a newborn babe. I am Portuguese, German, Black, Asian, an architect, a sandwich, rich, right-handed, web-toed, music hater, bubble gum lover,...
I don't want these companies to associate these traits or preferences or likes or dislikes with my true self. So I will always lie. At my age I can't remember which high school I went to anyway.
One day, I will take all those fake profiles for each of my accounts and combine them into a real kick-ass superhero. Or maybe they'll just add up to me.
[seen on lisnews]
