Privacy Is Something Not Everyone Understands:)

Really true. We need to be very much aware on to whom we are sharing personal details like addresses and phone number..

 

Very true ! Thanks to the internet and social media ( and smart phones) privacy will be a word we will all have to look up in the dictionary !

 

I do feel it's upto us to protect our privacy.

Few things i do in regards to the subject you mentioned,

Never give out my phone number to any enquiry sites, telecallers, etc or anywhere if I don't feel if it's absolutely important or secure.

Rip out the address stickers of the courier packages / letters before disposing.

Never tell my address on the phone, I ask them to tell it first n that I will confirm if it's right or not.

If someone asks me for other's numbers. I check with that person first and only after they say yes, I pass it on.

 

Why pick up a call from some one who is not in your contact? Never do that again.

 

When someone calls, and the receiver, who is your arch-enemy, knows it is phishing, s/he give out your address and phone (if s/he knows that)? Life is full of risks, no?

 

Dear Archana,
It is not always possible not to give address. When online shopping the guy who delivers the goods calls and asks landmarks for address. In India addresses are not very regulated and house numbers are not organised. How not to pick up a call.
? Facebook and mails....I can understand we should never give personal details.
Couple of months back my cousins daughter, 12 year old, while coming from school was crossing the road...in New York. A car hit her and she fell down. Her bag scattered, she was scary , crying and the car owner and others gathered and tried to help her. One of them asked her to call her mom or dad. One of them called 911. On his phone she tried to contact her mother....seeing the unknown number she did not pick up the phone as she was busy in the office. Then this girl contacted dad. He was out of city and is returning back and in flight. She contacted her elder sister of 15 year old and she picked up the phone and panicky, she called her mother. Mother seeing daughter's number, picked up and then ran to the accident site.....by that time 911 ambulance came and took her to hospital. She went to hospital.....that is a different story. She had only one fracture in hand....not life threatening. She vowed herself that she would pick up any number from then onwards. We need not tell the details but phone should be picked up.
So, let us use our discretion.

Syamala