MySpace wants to compromise safety?

We always hear that it isn't safe to enter too much personal information online.  I signed-up for a trial account on Facebook once, but cancelled the account after a few days because they kept hounding me to enter my employer's name & address, names/dates of the schools I had attended, as well as other personal information "so that friends can find you."  Yeah, I'll get right on that.  I don't need random people calling me at work and jeopardizing my job.  I also don't need every fucktard I've ever known to start looking for me.

Bastards.

Now I sign-into MySpace this morning and they have begun doing the same thing by telling me they don't have my real first & last names on file.  WTF?  If I want people to know I am here, then I will tell them, dammit.

Is MySpace now going to start hounding us, as the stupid FaceBook site does, for more-and-more personal information until we have compromised our security online?  Are we going to be bound by so much "red tape" here just to keep our accounts?  If so, you can bet that I will cancel my account in a heartbeat.

Bastards.

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Mulam and the Spear

Mulam helped me when my side was pierced by the spear. It should never have happened to me since I am a woman, but a world at war with itself doesn't always discriminate when it comes to casualties. The war had come to the village, and I had been struck as I fled in terror.

Mulam removed the spear, cleaned the wound, and nursed me back to health over the next few weeks. When I was almost healed enough to travel, Mulam mentioned the spear that had been in my side. "Oh, no, Mulam," I said, "the spear wasn't just in my side, but also in my heart. I know it is true because I bled for you, myself, and all the world. My tears washed over you as any Mother's tears would have washed over her child."

Years later on the streets of Odigo, Mulam mentioned the spear again and marveled at how the most beautiful rose sometimes has the sharpest thorns." But we were able, once again, to walk freely through those streets of Odigo and sit and talk over coffee.

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Yes, We Can!