I read with amusement that up to 35% of Americans, the majority of them iPhone users, regret what they have posted online through their smart phones. These respondents to the survey by Retrevo, claimed that they were not sober at that time, though many of them said that despite the mistake, they were able to move on in life without an repercussions or they were able to remove their accidental postings.

I too have mistakenly posted text and even sent the wrong email to another recipient two times but I was very sober at that time! With the internet where everything is instant, we just work faster and sometimes, even though we realise the mistake soon after, it is already too late to undo.

Just a couple of days after launching 1pengguna.com, the public has had problems logging in to the site and checking prices of consumer products being sold at all the malls and hypermarkets in the country.

And now, a news report has just come in that there has been a security breach on the site and 2,000 accounts have been exposed. Besides the login IDs of these accounts, password, address and contact number are also accessible for each of these accounts.

Hhmm the government spent RM1.4million on this website and it looks like only a little portion of it has been spent on securing the website. Now what? Will they need another RM1.4million to beef up the security of the website?

A few days ago, a friend told me to have a look at a video on YouTube which shows a woman in Holland getting tattoos of her Facebook friends on her arm. I felt incredulous watching it because I thought it’s not possible that someone would want to do that since as you know, friends come and go, even if we are good friends for now. And I also thought, wouldn’t it be painful to get all the tattoos in the few hours that she mentioned?

Now, I am glad that the entire video was a hoax and it was only temporary tattoo that would wash away in a couple of hours. The video was made to promote something. I don’t remember what it was. See, even if the video was viral and it garnered a few hundred thousand views within a short few days, the message wasn’t able to come across to me.

I read an article recently which made me laugh. Apparently, a 16-year-old girl sent out an invitation to birthday party intended to selected friends but accidentally sent it as a “public” invitation and was surprised to see so many people turned up at her doorstep for her party.

She ran out of her house and called the police, who came to help control the crowd. The news article also said that most people behaved well but there were some disturbances, still. Well, people may claim they know how to use the internet but when they don’t even know how to set up an invitation…. but then again, can anyone put anything up on a public domain and trust it to work as it should?