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Topic started on 19-10-2009 @ 12:03 PM by AccessDenied
Suspicious by nature, yet still trusting...that about sums me up.
Got the scars of burns to prove it inside and out.
I find it difficult to fully trust anyone, no matter how long I've known them.
Being a conspiracy theorist only reinforces that, as my life experiences have also.
I'm a recluse to boot, and don't fit into any social circles I've encountered thus far.To fit in an equal exchange of personal info must occur, thus establishing a basis of trust over a period of time.
I see around me, more and more identity theft...and with that comes increased security.
But the increased security brings with it more invasion into your personal information.
How much info are you comfortable telling your family, friends, co-workers..or those who serve you day to day in various aspects of your life, bank tellers, customer service,waiters?
How well do you protect yourself?
ie:
While filling out documents for a loan you are asked for references that are non family members.Who do you ask? Ever fear that someone close to you will use your information against you, or for their own purposes?
Do you think identity theft only happens to those whose wallet or mail gets stolen?
Do you tell friends how much is in your bank account?Ever lend your credit card to family? How much personal info do you give out about yourself, financial or otherwise to people you work with?
Would you be shocked to find out that your info is being spread around with the daily tabloid celebrity gossip?
Food for thought:
www.buzzle.com...
social.jrank.org...
www.mainstreet.com...
It's time to be more cautious, even though this reeks of an Orwellian scenario where you can't trust your nearest and dearest..it's fact.
Got the scars of burns to prove it inside and out.
I find it difficult to fully trust anyone, no matter how long I've known them.
Being a conspiracy theorist only reinforces that, as my life experiences have also.
I'm a recluse to boot, and don't fit into any social circles I've encountered thus far.To fit in an equal exchange of personal info must occur, thus establishing a basis of trust over a period of time.
I see around me, more and more identity theft...and with that comes increased security.
But the increased security brings with it more invasion into your personal information.
How much info are you comfortable telling your family, friends, co-workers..or those who serve you day to day in various aspects of your life, bank tellers, customer service,waiters?
How well do you protect yourself?
ie:
While filling out documents for a loan you are asked for references that are non family members.Who do you ask? Ever fear that someone close to you will use your information against you, or for their own purposes?
Do you think identity theft only happens to those whose wallet or mail gets stolen?
Do you tell friends how much is in your bank account?Ever lend your credit card to family? How much personal info do you give out about yourself, financial or otherwise to people you work with?
Would you be shocked to find out that your info is being spread around with the daily tabloid celebrity gossip?
Food for thought:
It’s a fun and easy way to upload pictures for your friends and followers to see, or send a quick update on what you’re doing right at this moment. It all seems harmless until you realize that almost 10 million Americans were victims of identity fraud in 2008, which is over a 20 percent increase since 2007. With over 250 million personal data records breached since 2005, millions of people have been exposed to the ill effects that being a victim of identity theft can quickly have - all because personal information got into the wrong hands.
www.buzzle.com...
A driver's license number, credit card number, or Social Security number truly are our "identity" — numbers that define us and are they keys to various doors in the world. A credit card account reveals all of our charges and, more importantly, the types and frequencies of our purchases. A driver's license, once intended as nothing other than a permit to get behind the wheel of a car, has become, Margaret Mannix points out, "the nation's de facto ID card." A Social Security number can be an ID number in a medical file, a financial account or a student ID. Swipe this number and a few other key pieces of information, and a thief can set up a whole new life (and credit history).
social.jrank.org...
It’s a burgeoning problem in a tight economy. The Federal Trade Commission estimates that 9% of all identity theft has a family member as the culprit. That’s about 900,000 incidents annually, the FTC says
www.mainstreet.com...
It's time to be more cautious, even though this reeks of an Orwellian scenario where you can't trust your nearest and dearest..it's fact.
reply posted on 19-10-2009 @ 12:26 PM by Hazelnut
reply to post by AccessDenied
Trust is earned. There is no other way.
Sheesh, I have a hard enough time trusting myself. And I work very hard to earn it. I'm a tough customer for sure. Once I get to the point of trusting myself, doubt creeps in despite my valiant efforts to deflect it. Insidious little bugger...(doubt that is.)
Trust is earned. There is no other way.
Sheesh, I have a hard enough time trusting myself. And I work very hard to earn it. I'm a tough customer for sure. Once I get to the point of trusting myself, doubt creeps in despite my valiant efforts to deflect it. Insidious little bugger...(doubt that is.)
reply posted on 19-10-2009 @ 12:30 PM by andy1033
reply to post by wylekat
What ever happened to you, is nothing to what the female gender did to my life. The government used this cow against me, and we had nothing to do with each other.
What ever happened to you, is nothing to what the female gender did to my life. The government used this cow against me, and we had nothing to do with each other.
reply posted on 19-10-2009 @ 12:46 PM by Conclusion
reply to post by AccessDenied
Very interesting topic. S&F. Trust, a very powerful enigma. To trust in someone means you have to have somewhat of a belief in someone to some extent. I think that almost anyone you ask will have some negative insight to shed on the subject, but some will also have positive insight. Every time you shop to buy food you trust that it is not poisoned. After all how many times is it handled before it gets to you. Some people do not even trust in themselves.
The dictionary defines trust as:
trust
/trʌst/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [truhst] Show IPA ,
Use trust in a Sentence
See web results for trust
See images of trust
–noun
1. reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
2. confident expectation of something; hope.
3. confidence in the certainty of future payment for property or goods received; credit: to sell merchandise on trust.
4. a person on whom or thing on which one relies: God is my trust.
5. the condition of one to whom something has been entrusted.
6. the obligation or responsibility imposed on a person in whom confidence or authority is placed: a position of trust.
7. charge, custody, or care: to leave valuables in someone's trust.
8. something committed or entrusted to one's care for use or safekeeping, as an office, duty, or the like; responsibility; charge.
9. Law.
a. a fiduciary relationship in which one person (the trustee) holds the title to property (the trust estate or trust property) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary).
b. the property or funds so held.
10. Commerce.
a. an illegal combination of industrial or commercial companies in which the stock of the constituent companies is controlled by a central board of trustees, thus making it possible to manage the companies so as to minimize production costs, control prices, eliminate competition, etc.
b. any large industrial or commercial corporation or combination having a monopolistic or semimonopolistic control over the production of some commodity or service.
11. Archaic. reliability.
–adjective
12. Law. of or pertaining to trusts or a trust.
–verb (used without object)
13. to rely upon or place confidence in someone or something (usually fol. by in or to): to trust in another's honesty; trusting to luck.
14. to have confidence; hope: Things work out if one only trusts.
15. to sell merchandise on credit.
–verb (used with object)
16. to have trust or confidence in; rely or depend on.
17. to believe.
18. to expect confidently; hope (usually fol. by a clause or infinitive as object): trusting the job would soon be finished; trusting to find oil on the land.
19. to commit or consign with trust or confidence.
20. to permit to remain or go somewhere or to do something without fear of consequences: He does not trust his children out of his sight.
21. to invest with a trust; entrust with something.
22. to give credit to (a person) for goods, services, etc., supplied: Will you trust us till payday?
—Verb phrase
23. trust to, to rely on; trust: Never trust to luck!
—Idiom
24. in trust, in the position of being left in the care or guardianship of another: She left money to her uncle to keep in trust for her children.
Origin:
1175–1225; (n.) ME < ON traust trust (c. G Trost comfort); (v.) ME trusten < ON treysta, deriv. of traust
Related forms:
trust⋅a⋅ble, adjective
trust⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
truster, noun
Synonyms:
1. certainty, belief, faith. Trust, assurance, confidence imply a feeling of security. Trust implies instinctive unquestioning belief in and reliance upon something: to have trust in one's parents. Confidence implies conscious trust because of good reasons, definite evidence, or past experience: to have confidence in the outcome of events. Assurance implies absolute confidence and certainty: to feel an assurance of victory. 8. commitment, commission. 17. credit. 19. entrust.
Maybe its the lack of trust in mankind that will be its inevitable downfall. Once again great thread.
Very interesting topic. S&F. Trust, a very powerful enigma. To trust in someone means you have to have somewhat of a belief in someone to some extent. I think that almost anyone you ask will have some negative insight to shed on the subject, but some will also have positive insight. Every time you shop to buy food you trust that it is not poisoned. After all how many times is it handled before it gets to you. Some people do not even trust in themselves.
The dictionary defines trust as:
trust
/trʌst/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [truhst] Show IPA ,
Use trust in a Sentence
See web results for trust
See images of trust
–noun
1. reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
2. confident expectation of something; hope.
3. confidence in the certainty of future payment for property or goods received; credit: to sell merchandise on trust.
4. a person on whom or thing on which one relies: God is my trust.
5. the condition of one to whom something has been entrusted.
6. the obligation or responsibility imposed on a person in whom confidence or authority is placed: a position of trust.
7. charge, custody, or care: to leave valuables in someone's trust.
8. something committed or entrusted to one's care for use or safekeeping, as an office, duty, or the like; responsibility; charge.
9. Law.
a. a fiduciary relationship in which one person (the trustee) holds the title to property (the trust estate or trust property) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary).
b. the property or funds so held.
10. Commerce.
a. an illegal combination of industrial or commercial companies in which the stock of the constituent companies is controlled by a central board of trustees, thus making it possible to manage the companies so as to minimize production costs, control prices, eliminate competition, etc.
b. any large industrial or commercial corporation or combination having a monopolistic or semimonopolistic control over the production of some commodity or service.
11. Archaic. reliability.
–adjective
12. Law. of or pertaining to trusts or a trust.
–verb (used without object)
13. to rely upon or place confidence in someone or something (usually fol. by in or to): to trust in another's honesty; trusting to luck.
14. to have confidence; hope: Things work out if one only trusts.
15. to sell merchandise on credit.
–verb (used with object)
16. to have trust or confidence in; rely or depend on.
17. to believe.
18. to expect confidently; hope (usually fol. by a clause or infinitive as object): trusting the job would soon be finished; trusting to find oil on the land.
19. to commit or consign with trust or confidence.
20. to permit to remain or go somewhere or to do something without fear of consequences: He does not trust his children out of his sight.
21. to invest with a trust; entrust with something.
22. to give credit to (a person) for goods, services, etc., supplied: Will you trust us till payday?
—Verb phrase
23. trust to, to rely on; trust: Never trust to luck!
—Idiom
24. in trust, in the position of being left in the care or guardianship of another: She left money to her uncle to keep in trust for her children.
Origin:
1175–1225; (n.) ME < ON traust trust (c. G Trost comfort); (v.) ME trusten < ON treysta, deriv. of traust
Related forms:
trust⋅a⋅ble, adjective
trust⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
truster, noun
Synonyms:
1. certainty, belief, faith. Trust, assurance, confidence imply a feeling of security. Trust implies instinctive unquestioning belief in and reliance upon something: to have trust in one's parents. Confidence implies conscious trust because of good reasons, definite evidence, or past experience: to have confidence in the outcome of events. Assurance implies absolute confidence and certainty: to feel an assurance of victory. 8. commitment, commission. 17. credit. 19. entrust.
Maybe its the lack of trust in mankind that will be its inevitable downfall. Once again great thread.
reply posted on 19-10-2009 @ 12:47 PM by Phlynx
It takes a while for me to gain the trust of people.
reply posted on 19-10-2009 @ 12:58 PM by andy1033
reply to post by unityemissions
Yep trusting family can be hard as well as they can be just like others. I will always trust myself, and my family.
But the funny thing about trust outside that is once its gone its gone for good, and that is something that i am glad about in humans.
Yep trusting family can be hard as well as they can be just like others. I will always trust myself, and my family.
But the funny thing about trust outside that is once its gone its gone for good, and that is something that i am glad about in humans.
reply posted on 19-10-2009 @ 01:02 PM by unityemissions
reply to post by andy1033
I have gained back a sense of trust in people who once betrayed me. It takes forgiveness and acceptance of the past on my part. It takes acceptance and a willingness to change on their part. Not an easy thing for either party. At least, it can seem to be very difficult.
I have gained back a sense of trust in people who once betrayed me. It takes forgiveness and acceptance of the past on my part. It takes acceptance and a willingness to change on their part. Not an easy thing for either party. At least, it can seem to be very difficult.
reply posted on 19-10-2009 @ 01:10 PM by andy1033
reply to post by unityemissions
From what people did to me, there is no chance of me forgiving them, its like since school the police and all these scummy people have been trying to frame me and totally wreck my life.
For me all that is beyond forgiveness, society can have all its trash, i will not bother with it.
Even though not trusting a person outside your family is bad and can be lonely and all that, i am glad i saw the extremes of how bad people are, and i have seen whats it like to have the mob against you.
Thankfully having a family and the truth on my side kept me going. The truth has always kept me going in this world.
Everyone that talks about this has there bad experiences, and how bad is there business, but no way on earth would i ever forgive the people for they did to me. Your not talking about a small thing, but people desperately trying to destroy you for 17 and a half years. Thats like over half my life. For me society deserves all the scum it has, and just think society thought these people where great, while they where destroying my life.
From what people did to me, there is no chance of me forgiving them, its like since school the police and all these scummy people have been trying to frame me and totally wreck my life.
For me all that is beyond forgiveness, society can have all its trash, i will not bother with it.
Even though not trusting a person outside your family is bad and can be lonely and all that, i am glad i saw the extremes of how bad people are, and i have seen whats it like to have the mob against you.
Thankfully having a family and the truth on my side kept me going. The truth has always kept me going in this world.
Everyone that talks about this has there bad experiences, and how bad is there business, but no way on earth would i ever forgive the people for they did to me. Your not talking about a small thing, but people desperately trying to destroy you for 17 and a half years. Thats like over half my life. For me society deserves all the scum it has, and just think society thought these people where great, while they where destroying my life.
reply posted on 19-10-2009 @ 01:24 PM by unityemissions
reply to post by AccessDenied
Sorry for getting of topic. My bad! I don't trust the government to know much of anything about me. I left my previous apartment and haven't updated the information with anyone. All mail that is essential is being forwarded from my parents address.
I don't have a credit card, so never exchange that information. I do have a business idea that I'm not sharing with anyone. It's not that I don't trust my friends to not capitalize on the idea, it's that I don't trust them entirely to keep their mouth shut.
I don't trust businesses to know my cell phone number. If someone calls, and I'm not aware of who it is, it can go to voicemail which is a standard message. If it's important, they will leave a message or text me.
Sorry for getting of topic. My bad! I don't trust the government to know much of anything about me. I left my previous apartment and haven't updated the information with anyone. All mail that is essential is being forwarded from my parents address.
I don't have a credit card, so never exchange that information. I do have a business idea that I'm not sharing with anyone. It's not that I don't trust my friends to not capitalize on the idea, it's that I don't trust them entirely to keep their mouth shut.
I don't trust businesses to know my cell phone number. If someone calls, and I'm not aware of who it is, it can go to voicemail which is a standard message. If it's important, they will leave a message or text me.
reply posted on 19-10-2009 @ 01:35 PM by AccessDenied
Originally posted by unityemissions
reply to post by AccessDenied
Sorry for getting of topic. My bad! I don't trust the government to know much of anything about me. I left my previous apartment and haven't updated the information with anyone. All mail that is essential is being forwarded from my parents address.
I don't have a credit card, so never exchange that information. I do have a business idea that I'm not sharing with anyone. It's not that I don't trust my friends to not capitalize on the idea, it's that I don't trust them entirely to keep their mouth shut.
I don't trust businesses to know my cell phone number. If someone calls, and I'm not aware of who it is, it can go to voicemail which is a standard message. If it's important, they will leave a message or text me.
wow- i'm exactly the same.
just moved, didn't forward my mail to here.
no credit card.
and i never answer my phone unless i know who is calling.
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