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* Email addresses and increasingly URLs are core to your identity online. It would be tremendously helpful if people understood the tradeoffs in using 3rd parties for this (e.g. gmail.com, wordpress.com, posterous.com, etc). | * Email addresses and increasingly URLs are core to your identity online. It would be tremendously helpful if people understood the tradeoffs in using 3rd parties for this (e.g. gmail.com, wordpress.com, posterous.com, etc). | ||
* if someone's offering a service for free, there's usually a reason -- sometimes it's because they're just being nice; sometimes they're making money (or hoping to) off of your use somehow. understanding that is a good idea. | |||
* the internet isn't magical -- it's powered by machines made by people, and by people interacting on it. | |||
* almost anyone can put almost anything on the web, even you. Ergo, don't believe everything your read. ("don't believe everything you think" is also wise, but irrelevant) | |||
* if something's too amazing to believe, look into it -- it could be awesome, it could be a scam - it's not that hard to tell the difference if you try. | |||
* on the internet nobody knows you're a dog, and its corrolary - on the internet, the person you're talking to may not be who they claim they are. | |||