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Originally Posted by DavidJames  Ummm... dunno really, I'm not sure if exposing that much information is necessarily a good thing, privacy-wise. Yes, I know it's available now anyway, but putting it all in one place is a different matter.
I think you should ask people's permission before doing that sort of data-mining exercise, to ensure the information is all voluntary. |
Who's is mining? It is voluntary to add your location to the map. As i deliberately said to add people by city, general region. I did not say "hey everyone put your home address here".
If you wanted to contact your local forumite in order to share lifts to local venues of interest. How else would you find someone except by provedence they happen to put the same town on their profile which is seen in a post? Not everyone posts 24/7 like you do. You can always turn down/not respond to a PM should someone send you one anyway. Any nuisance mailers can be blocked and rightly. I would have thought any benefits outweigh any privacy issue. It is like your profile picture not mandatory. It certainly is helpful though and I wish more people did. Particularly if they are certainly as forthright with their opinions as you.