Whoever of you loves life and desires to see many good days, keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking lies. Turn from evil and do good ;seek peace and pursue it.
- Psalm 34:12-14How would you feel if you found a site pretending to be yours but is not and it's intention is to hurt you and those near you? This stuff is usually reserved for public figures and angry fans, not regular peace-loving citizens like my sis-in-law. The other day she shared how someone had created a site on multiply.com pretending to be her and began posting things for the purpose of hurting her. This was painful. A little background, my sis one of kindest I know among our species. Sure she has her flaws but not one that warrants a full-fledged effort to defame her.
I realized from her story how real identity theft/terrorism is, though this may ba a mild form of it. Technology is amoral. It's a sad day when a few choose to use it to sow seeds of evil in cyberspace.
Ultimately we can't prevent anyone to lie about who they are. Hopefully our true friends and loved ones will attest to the truth of our character and disprove the lies others say about us online or otherwise.
Here are some ideas which may help curb incidents like that online:
- Live at peace with everyone.
- Use Multiply's ACCESS feature when designating who should be allowed to see what you've posted.
- Choose carefully what you post for the public keeping in mind that both the righteous and the axis of evil (hehe) can gain access to it.
- Send a message of peace to the poser/post-er with a desire to resolve any valid (true/real) issues.
- Report any incidents to the site administrator for immediate action.
Have you experienced anything like this? What did you do?
Have any suggestions of how to deal with such issues? Do share...
