As many of you know, the Thailand Bitch Board has been guilty of identifying members in our community and trying to publish their private information online on their site. This includes first and last names of a select few and photos of any member they have been able to find. They hide their guilt around the fact that some of this information is public already and availableтАжif anyone wanted to search for it on their own.

Here are some tips that can help you protect your personal identity better;

When you register to be a member at Sawatdee Gay Thailand, we ask you three questions. We ask you for a user name, your email address and a password. ThatтАЩs it. We ask you for no other information and we do not know what your name is, nor do we care.

Your user name can be used to identify you. If you use the same user name elsewhere and there is additional information other than just your email address associated with it, this could be a risk. Especially if you use the same user name for social online sites, within another online community, other Boards or most importantly an online dating site. Using the same user name from Board to Board in our gay online community is fine, provided it doesnтАЩt lead you to another type of site where you might also be using the same name. Always think about what kind of tracks you are leaving behind with your online activities.

Your email address can tell a great deal more about you and so you need to be careful with how you use it. There are search engines out there that focus on email addresses that are plugged into various sites. Each time you register for anything using an email address, you are creating a profile for that email address. A search engine can pull up any online registration that email address was ever used for and can link these registrations together to form a profile. An individual can see this profile, if they have your email address using various free and paid search engine services.

One site that is quite tricky is Facebook and youтАЩve probably heard this already. You should not use the same email address for Facebook as you would if you were signing up for this site or any other online site where it is important for you to protect you identity. Using the same email address for Facebook not only confirms that your online registration and your Facebook registration are from the same person, but Facebook may automatically make that connection for you too and start posting things automatically to your Timeline relevant to that other online registration. Many people use Facebook to connect with their family, friends, co-workers and school chums, and so you may want to have more control with the feeds coming to your Facebook page.

DonтАЩt mix browsing on Facebook with browsing a site you donтАЩt want your friends on Facebook to know about. If you click on a link to Facebook on this site or any other site where you are trying to protect your identity, this activity could be recorded by Facebook provided you were logged on to Facebook. If you click on a Facebook link and it takes you to a Facebook page that shows you logged onтАжtop right hand cornerтАжyou may want to log out of Facebook. If you do not and you use your Facebook тАЬLikeтАЭ button or any other Facebook function that sends your profile information to the site you are browsing, you will bring this browsing activity back to your Facebook page. This is why you do not see any Facebook or twitter icons on Sawatdee.

We urge members to protect their identity. Do not use the same user name on this site or any other Board in conjunction with an online dating site or any other site where your name and your photographs are visible. Even if they can be found through an extensive search, the individuals at the TBB could find these and publish these on their site for all to see.

Be mindful of which email address you are using to sign up for or to register for a site, especially a site where you want to protect your identity. If you are a member of more than one board, set up an email address that perhaps incorporates your user name in your email address and use it only for signing up for message boards.
This will remind you of what the email address has been used for so you don't mix it up with another type of online registration.

It doesnтАЩt matter which Board you are a member of, the TBB has attacked various members from each of the Boards and takes great glee in finding someoneтАЩs photo or name somewhere in the public internet and exposing it on their Board. It is their belief that this is what will draw people to their Board, paranoia from the membership that their identity will be exposed next.

If you take the precautions that IтАЩve mentioned in this post, the risk that the next person exposed may be you are greatly minimalized. You will not need to worry about the TBB and more importantly to us, you will not have to visit their site to worry and checkтАж.which should hasten their demise.

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