We share too much here.

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In the unlikely event that someone took the time and trouble to track me down using stuff that I've posted on WP, and then turned up at my door, they'd realise immediately that I'm a complete ****hole and would go away and leave me in peace.

I sometimes google people it's a habit of mine, because I love information. I never do anything with it... but there are websites where if you know someone's user name or full name, these sites will give you all their other info, full name, facebook profile, all sorts of things. Profileengine seems to think I'm highly influential... I doubt that a lot. Spokeo is probably the worst.

If people know my real name, they'll find there are actually a lot of different people with my name, and I really hope that if they want to stalk me, they don't mix me up with someone else... that would be embarrassing.

This is why anonymity exists. And the choice of anonymity too.


I never posted my true full name or my true location in real life in the internet. Hell, I never had an online banking account or sort.

I could always tell people in the internet that I'm a female aspie with unaligned agnostic belief, but would that be matter? Because I'm not the only person who could be a female aspie with unaligned agnostic belief.
I could always tell that I'm hungry and I like fries, but am'I not the only one who would thought of that?

I could always tell the truth or lie all the things I said within this post and all things I ever typed. And surely I'm not the only one who would do the same either.

How to avoid getting into trouble in the internet to begin with? Cut the juice.

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Good idea. I might start telling lies as well as truths.

If one lies here, it kind of defeats the purpose of this web site. That's why we have user names...

I can get the concern and others who might be unaware should definitely be given the warning but for me, I don't care. I already joined sites that require me to give too much of myself (Facebook, for example) and even without the probable diagnosis on its way, my co-morbid conditions and circumstances mean I simply will never be able to work. The best I can do in life is to release TTRPG games and if somebody climbs in my window they'll get punched in the face and fall several floors to their liable death.

Perfectly fine to give a cautionary mention, however I despise being told what I can and cannot share when it pertains only to me. I'm no contact with family and my carer knows how open I am online. Only I am in danger. If people wanted to find me all they would have to do is become friends with one of my Facebook friends (yes, giving them ideas, I know).

So I'd say to others that as long as you fully know all the consequences - usually teen sites talking about Internet safety will cover the vast majority - and you take into account those around you, share what you like while remembering it could be used against you in the future.