Online stalking
Recently I got called a stalker by someone I know at work. They changed their mind a minute later, but even so I feel the need to point out how easy it can be to go from only having a small bit of personal information to having quite a bit.
Some people might consider this a bit of a creepy post – it’s not intended to be at all. It’s merely meant to show that you should be careful with your personal information. Also, that putting someone’s name into Google and following the obvious trail of results is not stalking 
So there’s this girl at work. We’ll call her Charlie Aznablet because it’s a nice mix between her real name and the name of Zeon’s Red Comet, Char Aznable (from Gundam~).
In a moment of boredom, I did a search for her name on Google. The top hit was a portfolio website of the kind that fresh graduates tend to make to advertise themselves. What particularly drew my attention was the e-mail address mentioned – charlie@aznablet.co.uk (I reiterate – this is not her real name and this address is not real (I hope)). A second glance revealed that her site had previously contained her mobile phone number as well. Google hadn’t reindexed her contact page since she’d updated her site, so a simple search for her name revealed both her e-mail address and her mobile number. Not a good situation!
A few minutes on her website rewarded me with a link to her blogspot reviews blog. Searching for the URL for that site led to her DeviantArt account and all of the stuff that goes with profiles on that site.
Oh, and searching for her e-mail address on Facebook yielded her profile “Charlie A”, which was quite sensibly locked to people outside of her network.
And just a minute or two ago I found her LiveJournal, through a link on her DeviantArt… Thankfully she’s used the “friends only” feature for most of her entries.
The moral of this story is that you should be careful with the way that your various online presences link together. If I can find out why you were half-asleep at work one day, then so can your boss.