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Hello, you very right in what you say, but if they are people and put them online profile, and tell all about her, why they choose to have a private profile if only with a click I can be their friend and see private profile?
There is only one way to attract people to be more interested to see your profile and trying to be friends with you? There is a veiled invitation?

You are right it is used as a way of attraction also. And if profile is restricted for friend then people want to be friend. But in many profile the identity is not the correct one. And anything in net is in suspicion. We can be friend with anyone in net but hardly believe each other.

you are so right, never know who is behind a profile or another...but we can have surprises too; to find great peoples, who are great in real too, and who are to shy to show what they are in real....all is possible, i admire a lor who have this idea with internet, can make people who are afraid in real to show who are they; bravoo...

Actually net is a mysterious world. Everything look like real but nothing is confirm. It is right that in this discussion it is confirm that two people are typing something here. But nothing is confirm behind the profile. Writings are real but the person behind this writings are illusion. People are very expressive behind the curtain. Even more than the real life. It is look like a hide and sick game. But great thing in all this is that people enjoy more and more in this.

Can be a sick game, to who is mentally ill in reality too, but also you can choose your friends, and who wants to be with you, will never lie or hide anything, just for important day will come when they will meet in reality, and all the lies can turn against him

Mentally sick in reality!.....

I have no objection to this but it makes us think that are the world going sick day by day with the change of the civilization?

I hope that are many smart honest and faithful in this world; if i lose this hope, i ll give up for sure; hope die last..

Who is the friend with whom the Internet? can avoid a real personality, or you can fall into the trap of a man without backbone, all possible.
How many mistakes have to do until we find truths?
You pass near the luck, or you can find it in a profile that is not private!!!

I'm not clear on what you mean but I don't look for a new friendship on internet. I mean, it's one thing to have some random people on your list in a site like this but I don't consider them my personal friends. As far as a personality in question, I don't put someone on my social or personal website as a friend unless I know them personally. People on my "friend list" in my facebook are the people I know & are my friends off line. Just because I have them as a friend on line doesn't mean our friendship ends there. And that's more of a reason why I keep my profile private. It's not for random people who has nothing to do but to click on random people's profiles. It's there for people I know.

You have such a serious figure in your avatar ... how can you believe that? who i and set private profile that only wants to be more interesting, or to conceal something improper photos who is sincere and friendly, never will set the profile to private... we are here to find friends, not to hide something..

I know for a fact that people join social sites to have fun with their friends, those people they trust and get on with and are not interested in meeting others online, as for the reason why they set it to private. That doesn't make them less friendly or honest, just that they are comfortable with their closed circle of friends which they trust. It makes sense in many cases when it is a young person profile, especially with so many creeps using the internet to hunt out young people.

No, no and no; let me to have other opinion; if you have a profile to Hi5(is just an example) you will see there that serious people never have private profile, but who have strange photos(you know what i mean, sexy photos) all have private profile'
....if you have a profile, who is in a public place, why you must set as private? is for sure a hidden reason

Firstly I've never heard of hi5 so I can't comment on that.

But whilst there may be some people who set their profile to private because they are trying to hide something personal there is no reason why they shouldn't. Just because you join a social site doesn't mean you are on their to try and attract attention, even if you choose to have a fun profile picture. As I state in my opinion, you may join just to have fun with a close knit group of friends who happen to use the site.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with having a private profile, because not everyone is trying to attract attention.

is hard to explain, you think that if somebody is open, and let others to see how he is want just to attract others attention? in real, if you hide something, other people don t think that you have something to hide? come on...all know what is Hi5, is a site for friendship, nothing more...or maybe for more, if they like to hide something...

No I am not saying that just because someone joins a social site and has a public profile they are trying to attract attention. Nor am I saying that if they have a private profile they are trying to hide something. All I am saying is that people join these sites to have fun with people they know and so keep their profiles private because they are not interested in making new friends online. Some people sign up just to play games and nothing else. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this because they are not trying to hide anything or make people inquisitive by being private.

Nope I don't know what is hi5, but I have just gone to find out, purely because I choose not to spend time on social network sites anymore and that is why I didn't know the name.

If you will find what is Hi5, you will know why i ask this question, for sure.

Teacher, you know very good,you understand the philosophy, who is hiding, has something to hide, that I started this discussion , why, whether you're making a public profile, choose to be private? if you want to be private, should not you do a public profile., I'm right or not?i am wrong?

You are absolutely right! Why go public to remain private?

you got my idea...

Just because they put their information on line doesn't mean they want everybody on the face of the planet to get in touch with them. Just because I'm taking a walk in the middle of public park doesn't mean I wanna be approached by stranger nor does that mean I wanna share my life story with just anybody who happened to be at that park. If I run into someone I know, like my friend or neighbor or family member, I'll stop to talk to them. But again, just because I stopped to talk to someone doesn't mean I wanna stop to talk to every single person in that park. That's the point of going public but keeping some degree of privacy.

For family, friends, etc., there's always e-mail. Placing a profile in public view is a sort of tacit invitation. Refusing to be in touch ewith those who see it is an insult.

Who are your friends online? are your neighbors, or people people from your family? I am sure not all of your friends, you known on the internet, so they were unknown at a time, so why you must to have a private profile , you can do a few friends more, you don t have many friends?

hi ice,
it is mostly online friends here who i really do not know. i only get to know more as the discussions progresses.. the way their discussions go and the way they respond. in other social networks, still i like choosing to be private. i dont add people with avatars of bodies displayed or pouting lips, etc. seems like they are there for other purposes aside from friendship.
ann

"Why go public to remain private?" the teacher have so much right...cobtateacher, who answer to me before...

the net is one way of looking for new friends far away THAT YOU LIKE AND AVOIDING THOSE THAT YOU DONT LIKE. its the simplest answer i could say right now, ice.

Him happy to see you again...you are very right, day by day people are so rude sometimes , of course not all, but are many; are weak people who like to hide under a nickname, and from this "small" world, of course can come just a "small" person;
But i am sure that are many people very polite honest and nice on line too.

sorry, Hi, not him...

I understood it. The comma key & the m key are right next to each other, & it is easy to hit the wrong one.

I know a lady who started on myspace, 7 then ended up deleting her profile because of the rudeness, & then ended up starting up again where only way to contact her on the site was through a mutual friend. To try to add her as a friend, someone either needed to know her last name or the email address she used to sign up with.

here are many reasons, you're right, never one to understand why are people rude or naughty on the internet is so easy to be polite, no cost money.
I am sure that people sometimes think that if they push others, they gain something; but they don t for sure, and they will not have friends for sure