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How important is privacy for you? Do you realize that some strangers now know a lot about your life. How protective are you about your privacy? Do you use a hotmail/yahoo account because you fear someone might know you.

― Gimme Moore (nathalie), Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Why are you asking? Why do you want to know this information?

;-)

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I assume that people know me.

― anthony, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, I was talking about strangers: They read your post, they know your email address. I know people who use hotmail/yahoo addresses so they can hide behind that. Does it not make you feel uncomfortable posting private things?
Tadeusz, I am writing a science fiction book: Trapped In A Message Board.

― nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yeah privacy's real important. but people who just know me as a name & a email address can't fuck w/ me...can they?

― duane, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm quite cautions about RL/net bleedthru. Partly coz it keeps me from getting to personally involved with anything on the net, partly coz I like to keep my life in little boxes in general.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

except for lots of your irl friends read this duane???? and some are 'Lurkers'????

― maryann, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yeah but i know those ppl. , they know all this weird stuff about me anyway, it's no big deal.

― duane, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

...uh..."lots"? really? who? (you can tell me in "real life")

― duane, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I keep my life in ONE little box. It's under my bed...room on the left as you go in...I already told you the address.

― duane, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I live in constant fear of this. It's a double edged fear- partly because I have had an internet stalker (or two... I don't think I can call certain people solely *my* stalker, even if I was the victim of the most vicious personal attacks) who went around the net searching for name, finding each new email account as I started new ones to escape him. He still pops up every six months or so, almost as if to prove that he can still find me. It's scary and it's frightening. But ultimately, this is my fucking life, and I'm not going to let him drive me off something I enjoy.

The other fear is, of course, the idea that some day, fate willing, my band will actually get somewhere, and some overeager journalist will bring up questions about things that I've raised on this forum. But that's even more stupid and paranoid.

I guess, ultimately, you have to decide how much of your own life you're willing to share. Even hiding behind web personnas or yahoo and hotmail accounts is not going to protect you from people "finding out". You either have to completely lock yourself up and become a closed and guarded and paranoid individual, or else you just have to accept the fact that it's going to happen, people on the net will betray you just as people in real life do, and continue to be open and honest anyway.

I'm still wrestling with this issue, clearly.

― Kate the Saint, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Of anyone with my last name I (by far) use the interweb the most, and leave my name all over it, which I used to think was cool. I am not so sure about that any more.

― Josh, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh - and not because of personal things I put out, because mostly I only do that when I'm ok with it. It's just the idea that people can find a bunch of junk that I post to ILE or whatever, and then think that they know something about me because of it. They can, but not always how they think. I would rather they not think that at all, than have to disabuse them of any false notions.

― Josh, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My history people get w/i 10 minutes IRL is amusingly dramatic. Ask Robin this question. I think Aspergers has something with my lack of limits about information cascading out of my fingers/mouth.

― anthony, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oddly enough, this has suddenly become an issue as some bugger has been sending me viruses to my btinternet address. But I got Norton Anti-Virus recently, so balls to them.

― DG, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't even care about privacy anymore. I figure when I become famous, I'll have to get used to it. Speaking of which, a coworker's daughter recognized me at the hotel over the weekend. We don't know each other well, and she apparently just assumed I was an actress because I "looked like one". I think that's completely ace.

― Ally, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

how much privacy did we ever have, with brith/death records, education records, cop records etc - yeah sure less ppl had access, but our lives weere still disclosed..at least this way there's an element of personal power, disclosing by choice rather than force.

― Geoff, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

SPeaking of, how bout those Sony handcams with nightvision that if you use in daytime with a special filter you can use as xray vision and see poeples knickers?

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What if they are not wearing any knickers?

― Emma, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have complete awareness of my audience, that's why everything I say is so eloquent and insightful. No, really, I doubt if anyone I know in real life is reading what I say, and if they were they would think there he goes same old rubbish. Studies do suggest that for every poster there are 5 lurkers or something like that, but oh well.

― jel, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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