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My eldest has more or less already decided what she wants to do. All I am doing is making sure she gets the right start and helping her choose where she wants to study. Her final decision, from wanting to be an engineer, is to go into forensic science. My youngest, bless her, has already decided on being a writer and a professor, so that route is easy to plan.

I help when I can, but they want to do this on their own, and make their own decisions, which I think is good, but also because la familia has already tried to help them researching on the net and what not, and its met with rolling eyes, a shake of the head, and politely say that they already know the direction they want to go into.

Entirely. When I got my iPhone, I had to get a new sim, so instead of getting a new number, I decided to sim swap, so I would keep my number. On their systems, they could see the last five numbers I had dialled on my phone as well as anyone calling me. That in itself shows me that my number, in the wrong hands, can cause problems.

Before RICA, I didn't really have a problem with telemarketing, when my sim was RICA'd, it was like a floodgate opening. I get phone calls, as well as texts with the ominous opt out that costs me money in the end to free myself of it.

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Here is a link from wiki that explains it.

What our government basically told us was that they use this new system to track criminals, which would help lower crime rates, yada yada.... The minute you buy a new sim card, it needs to be registered, regardless of which network you're using. If not, the sim is locked and you can't use it.

Ah ok, my bad, Read the post wrong and thought it was Chrome. hmmmm My mozilla did that as well, and I moved onto Chrome. Its not that easy working behind the scenes with Mozilla to find the culprit.

Out of curiosity, does it load the same site everytime? or is it different sites when you click on links.

Otherwise, have a look at this from Mozilla. There have been instances where mozilla has been hijacked by adware programs before.

hmmmm have you installed anything off the net lately? It could be something that's working against Chromes programming. Something similar happened to me a while ago, had to go look under the hood to remove the code.

*Jumps on that bandwagon*

Technically, my home number isn't listed in any sort of directory, either online or offline, and yet somehow, I still get calls. Above and beyond the scam calls I've been getting again from certain countries...

What I would love to know is how they get our numbers if our Telephone company is the only people who know it? We also have a new law passed a while back where our sim cards need to be RICA'd otherwise we cannot use them. This opened floodgates of epic proportions because I now get calls and texts from banks, insurance companies, the works. Maybe we need a system like you guys have in the UK?

It could go both ways, I think. It will either become our worst enemy, or a lot safer than it is now. In the end it depends on how governments react to it and how we as people use the net. At the moment, everyone is still a big part of that global village point of view and just about everything about you can be found online these days. So The less you want someone to know, the less you add online. Maybe? *Shrugs*

In a way it does. but at the same time, there are a lot of things you can do for just about every company that wants to promote online, its just the way you do it that differs slightly, and is service or product specific. I think it works in the same way for offline marketing.

You can advertise on billboards, newspapers, magazines, posters, the works, and by giving out promotional products, or even resort to Guerrilla Marketing offline, and then work on forums, other social networks, videos, podcasts, blogs and websites online.

Even if you're business is online, providing an online service or software, you could still use offline marketing as a means to get more clients. Its just that for every niche, and just about every marketer out there, its how they do it that makes the difference.

hmmm true, but it still begs the question, how do you restore their trust in you and your products? One thing I've noticed is that its hard to convince a customer to trust you again, after they were left unsatisfied by some service or product.

Then again, from my own Retail experience, there are many customers out there that become unsatisfied rather easily, and would expect you to move heaven and earth to keep them happy. Because of that, I would then rather focus on making sure my existing clients are happy and well looked after and have a backup plan in place for those customers that are bound to be unhappy about something. Most times, this is enough to get them back into the fold, so to speak, but sometimes its better to cut your losses and focus on the clients you do have, instead of crying about a client that's never going to be satisfied, no matter what you do.

IMHO, in any case.

I guess, in a way, this has been a long time coming. I mean, people have been debating on forums about whether google is evil or not for about a year or more now. And when tales hit the net about Google gathering information, the ones that said google was evil sat back and enjoyed their opinions being justified.

On the other end of the coin though, what about companies that place cookies on computers to see what their potential clients do online to help them simplify or add more focus to their marketing campaigns. IMHO it works more or less in the same way, they still gather information in a way, as well as applications that send crash reports, or an antivirus that sends new virus information from your PC to their headquarters.

The only real difference I can see between it all, is that most times, you're asked if its ok to take info from your PC, where Google didn't ask.