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Paranoia and memes.
Mar. 1st, 2007 02:20 amSo, I'm sure you've all seen the memes that give you your Star Wars name, your porn star name, your Hobbit name, and so forth, by putting together other information about your life.
However, I've seen a lot of these lately, and I'd like to gently demonstrate something you may not have thought of.
Example name-memes*:
YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: Your middle name plus the city you were born in.
YOUR STAR WARS NAME: The first three letters of your last name, hyphen, the last three letters of your mother's maiden name, then the first three letters of your pet's name.
JEDI NAME: Your middle name spelled backwards plus your mother's maiden name spelled backwards.
PORN STAR NAME: First pet's name, plus the name of the street you grew up on.
Given these examples, please think back to the last time you set up a security question on any sensitive information, like at your bank. Didn't you have choices like this:
1. What is your mother's maiden name?
2. What city were you born in?
3. What was your first pet's name?
etc.
Now, admittedly, you may be someone like me, who doesn't use "mother's maiden" for a security question (because my mom's maiden is MY name). But do your friends? Why urge them to share personally sensitive information in a post viewable to the whole internet? And even if it's f-locked, you're asking them to trust everyone you like enough to read their LJ?
These results may be fun and funny, but I also find it humorous that there's a numerical pattern between my mom's Social and mine, and I'm not ABOUT to share that.
*You can find hundreds of such memes by searching for "name memes" or "maiden memes" (for the ones which use your mom's maiden name). The particular ones here are lifted from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
merfilly.
However, I've seen a lot of these lately, and I'd like to gently demonstrate something you may not have thought of.
Example name-memes*:
YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: Your middle name plus the city you were born in.
YOUR STAR WARS NAME: The first three letters of your last name, hyphen, the last three letters of your mother's maiden name, then the first three letters of your pet's name.
JEDI NAME: Your middle name spelled backwards plus your mother's maiden name spelled backwards.
PORN STAR NAME: First pet's name, plus the name of the street you grew up on.
Given these examples, please think back to the last time you set up a security question on any sensitive information, like at your bank. Didn't you have choices like this:
1. What is your mother's maiden name?
2. What city were you born in?
3. What was your first pet's name?
etc.
Now, admittedly, you may be someone like me, who doesn't use "mother's maiden" for a security question (because my mom's maiden is MY name). But do your friends? Why urge them to share personally sensitive information in a post viewable to the whole internet? And even if it's f-locked, you're asking them to trust everyone you like enough to read their LJ?
These results may be fun and funny, but I also find it humorous that there's a numerical pattern between my mom's Social and mine, and I'm not ABOUT to share that.
*You can find hundreds of such memes by searching for "name memes" or "maiden memes" (for the ones which use your mom's maiden name). The particular ones here are lifted from
merfilly.
