Your Address and Required Fields in Web Forms
- Date
- 17.07.09
- Comments
- 5
It’s pretty uncommon for any site not to have some sort of contact form these days. But lately, I’ve been noticing more and more sites (and clients) having fields for address, city, state, postal code, etc. The curious part is that most of the time, they aren't required—or maybe the more disturbing part is that they are required.
So let’s take a poll. The spreadsheet of results will be cleaned of addresses and published in the near future for everyone to see.
5 Comments
haha. I always fill only the required fields and try to skip as much as possible. That's funny with the fields at the end of your poll:)
I fill only what is necessary. After my information will be sell to one website
I agree with Joffrey. Intenert is a big shop for the firms yho want to get informations about people to propose them products
To me privacy is very important. And even if nowadays we can be reached via many channels (e-mail, facebook, blogs, mobile..) people don´t really know where you are. Moreover with these digital media you can almost always decide wheter to communicate with others or not. On the contrary knowing your home adress people are potentially able to locate you and that bothers me a bit.
There´s should be a bit of privacy at least on this point. And I don´t think your address is an essential thing to register on the Net.
I´m also skipping as much as possible...