Worry About Personal Information

Monday, May seventh, two thousand and seven

A friend of mine asked me yesterday whether western people tend not to be worried that their personal information is leaked. Actually, most Japanese people don't open their real names and photographs of their faces(facial portrait) on social networking sites or something like that, but lots of western people do that. I guess the reason Japanese people don't open their real name on the web sites is that it's easy to find out their other information by googling with their real names written in Kanji characters. In fact, when you google with my real name written in Kanji, my factory information comes up. As a matter of fact, it's kind of rare that someone has the same Kanji name as a Japanese person has. On the other hand, it's relatively difficult to get western people's detail information by googling with their real names even though Google is the most powerful search engine in the world, because their names are written in English or other alphabets. I hope you understand what I mean, although my guess might not be right.
Anyway, there are quite a few bad networkers who often try to find fault with other people in Japan, that's why Japanese people tend not to open their real names on the Net.


"quotes from LONGMAN Dictionary of Contemporary English"
find fault with: to criticize someone or something, often unfairly and frequently(～のあら捜しをする、けちをつける)