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June 22, 2004
Message from my best friend
I got e-mail from my friend in New York. She has MBA degree and has been working on financial business. In the real world, she is more persuasive than I.She has moderate level of computer experience, better than typical woman, but less than geeks like me.
She says:
I'm updating my address book. Please take a moment to update me with your latest contact info. Click the following link to correct or confirm your information: https://www.abccompany.com/edit_abcde_contact_info?***************
# I changed the link from her original message. Name: Chika
Job Title:
Company:
Work E-mail: chika@
(deleted)
Mobile Phone: Home E-mail:
Home Phone:
Home Address Line 1:
Home City, State, Zip:
Birthday:
*** message ends *************** This shows that she is storing my personal message onto a server that I have never known. Once my information is stored, I will lose my control; then I will get more and more spam and advertisement by e-mail. I understand that such kind of database service would be helpful for us in a sense. But it is a big trade-off between taking a risk to distribute personal information and convenience. Anyway, I have to think how I respond her without hurting... -Chika
I'm updating my address book. Please take a moment to update me with your latest contact info. Click the following link to correct or confirm your information: https://www.abccompany.com/edit_abcde_contact_info?***************
# I changed the link from her original message. Name: Chika
Job Title:
Company:
Work E-mail: chika@
(deleted)
Mobile Phone: Home E-mail:
Home Phone:
Home Address Line 1:
Home City, State, Zip:
Birthday:
*** message ends *************** This shows that she is storing my personal message onto a server that I have never known. Once my information is stored, I will lose my control; then I will get more and more spam and advertisement by e-mail. I understand that such kind of database service would be helpful for us in a sense. But it is a big trade-off between taking a risk to distribute personal information and convenience. Anyway, I have to think how I respond her without hurting... -Chika
Posted by Chika Ando at June 22, 2004 10:09 AM
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