TO ALL MY FRIENDS, ABOUT PRIVACY - PLEASE READ

[fpb]

Personally, I care little about privacy on the net, and even if I did, I think that mine is past praying for. However, a recent incident showed me, to my regret, that some people do and find it difficult or painful to be, for instance, exposed to correspondence from social contact sites.

If any of you feel like that, please let me know and I will take all necessary measures to protect your privacy.

Comments

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

I try to be private as much as I can.

[inverarity.livejournal.com]

It's easy to get complacent when you're online on a bunch of different sites, often using different user names, and assuming that they will never be connected. But if someone is really determined, it's possible to track down almost anyone's real identity and find the trail of breadcrumbs they've left around the Internet.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Well, my username is and has always been the initials of my name, and I have never made any effort to disguise who I am or to make it difficult for people to track me down. That is what I mean. If you feel differently, I will do my best to accommodate you. In your case, anyway, I barely know your nationality, let alone more private data.

[inverarity.livejournal.com]

Nah, I'm not terribly worried. I do try to keep my fan fiction identity separate from my real identity, but if everyone who knows me elsewhere became aware of my secret identity as a fan fiction author, I'd only suffer some mild embarrassment.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Noted. And while I'm at it, have a blessed Easter.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

I keep my fannish ID separate from my online ID, and even have two Twitter feeds, neither much updated, one in my real name, and the other as Shezanissima. I am pretty careful on what I post on Facebook, i.e. nothing that goes up there couldn't be shown to a prospective boss or colleague. (Nonetheless, I do not friend current colleagues at the place which pays me monthly, and my public ID is as closed as can be and still show I exist.) It's very easy for an outsider (or prospective employer) to fathom my political slant from my online existence; less so my fan-and-LJ activities. I'm not particularly nervous about it; it just seems healthy to keep things separate and a number of my good friends are aware of both, being themselves interested in the fan world (and my LJ is unsearchable by bots.) But I've always felt I was the one responsible for the stuff I put up, so anything I post somewhere unlocked can be quoted, as long as it's quoted using the identity under which it was written...

[hermoinejean7.livejournal.com]

There was a point of time when I obsessed over privacy to the extent that people only knew me by HJ/HJG online. I think I've definitely become more comfortable talking to strangers/people I've met through various internet sites/fandoms, but I'm still the hesitant kind. That's probably why all my LJ posts are locked. Not because I am afraid that someone I know will chance upon my entries, but because someone I don't know might, at some point of time, use it against me. I really don't dissociate my fandom identity from my RL identity. My entire class probably knows that I have written Harry Potter fanfic and that I'm a total addict(Even my teachers are HP addicts! I do not kid; our intra-collegiate quiz finals have a specific HP category in the subject-of-choice round). My LJ flist probably knows all about my RL life, with the exception of my friends' actual names, too. I just kind of feel that it's safer to keep posts locked, though. It kind of gives me a sense of security. =)

[rfachir.livejournal.com]

Getting emails isn't a problem for me. (My identity was already compromized by someone I trusted - now I just need to change my address, and keep my eyes open for the children. He knows their info, too. Motherhood in the new millenium!) A Belated Happy Easter and Passover!