I can't believe that EVERYONE isn't completely outraged at the very idea that advertisers, both on and off the Internet, believe they have the right to know an individual's date of birth! It's not that I'm trying to hide the fact that I'M OLD - when you get as old as I am, there's no hiding it. I just find it offensive that anyone, and especially folks who exist for the purpose of trying to sell things to me, think that my private information should belong to them as a matter of course. (I have an ex-husband who still doesn't know my date of birth, or how old I was, or am - why the heck should a group of strangers have that info?)
Seriously, almost everything online now includes a DOB space - as if a webpage provider (free or paid) needs to know how old I am! All they need to do is verify that I'm over 18, thank you very much.
It's the same thing for contests. They can verify that anyone who enters is over 18, and that's all they need. Anything more is none of their business.
Why, if I weren't so scatterbrained, I'd start a revolution against all this invasion of privacy! But it's time for my third nap, darn it. Lucky for them, by God!
Yawn. . . . .
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