Hide Your Identity While Posting On Forums



Posted: Tuesday, June 03, 2008

by

The Internet is made up of a collection of billions of different website types and genres. One such popular gathering spot for the Internet masses are community forums . They are just like the word forum is described on the internet, except done all online. On a forum, you can raise new topics and reply to ones posted by other members. On an internet forum, you can stay completely anonymous behind your keyboard while you chat up a storm on a number of topics and interests. Well, you can stay almost anonymous

An IP address is something that comes attached to your computer. Basically, as long as your computer is stuck in one spot, this IP address will stay the same, always. What is so interesting about this IP address ? It can basically identify who you are and what you do on the internet. It is like the digital address to your computer, much like the address and numbers posted on your mail box. It is really scary though, as this IP address can be used to target you in a myriad of different ways and not all of them being good.

This is why you should always be using software that will hide your IP address , especially on forums. A hacker is someone that can use your IP address for evil. The hackers that know your IP address can track your internet and forum movements. However, if you use an IP hider to hide your IP on forums these hackers will be unable to target you and your computer. Using a program to hide IP addresses on forums, people trying to hack into your computer will be sent a fake IP, displaying a random IP and location to where you are.

Using an IP hider also disables the chance that marketers and scammers will be able to track you down to your internet and send those a nnoying junk emails you get every day. The benefits of software to hide your IP are growing every day, and using it will absolutely not affect the way you can surf online and what forums you can visit. It will simply hide your IP address to the bad people that want it to do nasty things.

This Article has been viewed 334 times. (Not updated in real-time.)
Top-level comments on this article: (4 total)
» left by Susan Thom
 3 years 226 days ago.
174 fans.
hi anelly, this was a well written and interesting article in which i leaned something, and i will look into it. thank you for sharing, and keep writing! best regards, sue thom
» left by Anelly Ghidiu
 3 years 101 days ago.
3 fans.
Thanks Susan i really appreciate your honest response. 
» left by Chiradeep
 3 years 100 days ago.
85 fans. Follow Chiradeep on twitter!
Anelly ...Thanks... this is a very good article...good information...again thanks for joining my fan club...God bless you...
» left by Anonymous
 2 years 183 days ago.
Can Hiding the IP address keep the forum Moderators or Administrator from tracking the IP address as well?? I heard that hiding the IP address will work in most situations, but not in ALL situations... what situations will it now work???
We want your comments! If you can read this, you don't have javascript enabled, so you can't use this comment system. Please enable javascript.