It's a bit creepy

[*crikey*mate*]

That eBay or Lithium know how many messages I've read. (It's catalogued in your Statistics page).

I guess that by messages they mean posts, as I haven't received close to the number of PMs that they say for them to mean I have read that many of those.

But Crikey! How do they know if I read a post, scrolled past it or even read the same post a few times?

More importantly, why do they bother collecting this data at all, far less reporting the results to me?

[the_hawk*]

Welcome to the new world where your every move is monitored

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

Check out how many minutes you have spent online.....

[debra9275]

I dunno?

maybe it gives them more insight into what a persons about?

[the_hawk*]

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@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

Check out how many minutes you have spent online.....

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seeing I leave it logged in and the computer is on from morning till bed time even when I am not here its going to be really useful info  LOL

They do tend to log us out often now, I get so sick of haveing to log back in 10 times a day

[*crikey*mate*]

Well I just read my OP 3 times - bet they wouldna known that if I didn't tell them!

And, I'm gonna pretend I didn't read DLA's post (that was a scary thought, but I wonder if it just counts how long you're logged in for rather than the time you are actually perusing the boards), so there's one post they prolly reckon I did read, but they can't prove I did, can they?

[*crikey*mate*]

At least they don't keep track of how many coffees I consume whilst at the PC....

[the_hawk*]

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@crikey*mate wrote:

Well I just read my OP 3 times - bet they wouldna known that if I didn't tell them!

And, I'm gonna pretend I didn't read DLA's post (that was a scary thought, but I wonder if it just counts how long you're logged in for rather than the time you are actually perusing the boards), so there's one post they prolly reckon I did read, but they can't prove I did, can they?

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If you look at the bottom left of every post it tells you how many times its been viewed, I bet they know from your IP exactly who has viewed each posts

[the_hawk*]

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@crikey*mate wrote:

At least they don't keep track of how many coffees I consume whilst at the PC....

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I hope your web cam is turned off

[*crikey*mate*]

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@the_hawk* wrote:

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@crikey*mate wrote:

At least they don't keep track of how many coffees I consume whilst at the PC....

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I hope your web cam is turned off

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It's set up as Pay Per View

*cheeky grin*