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Re: Would you warn someone that they were easily identifiable?
By: Tea Drinker Date: May 28, 2018, 4:09 pm
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I would probably warn someone if it seemed likely that other
people would make the connection, and that they were making any
efforts to hide it. If someone is using something that looks
like a real name (something like "Mary Jane Olsen" rather than
"MJ_in_Minnesota" or "I love cookies") I'll assume that either
they're okay with people associating their real names with their
posts, or they decided that "Mary Jane Olsen" would be less
conspicuous than "Queen of the May." I've noticed over the years
that people who post with odd-seeming names are often assumed to
be using handles/pseudonyms, but things that look like ordinary
names are taken at face value.
I also wouldn't assume that Person1 was being careful about
Person2's identity; if you start blogging as This_is_an_alias
but tell a hundred of your closest friends that that's your
alias, one of them may offhandedly say here's a cool thing my
friend Jay said" and link to the until-them pseudonymous blog.
This happened to a friend of mine, ages ago; the person who
posted the link hadn't thought that maybe there was a reason
that her LiveJournal, unlike his, didn't have her real name on
it anywhere. Oh, as a meta-level thing, it's possible that this
post contains enough information for someone to guess who I
might be, the way "I went to high school with $person" compared
with my current location might be. However, that would take a
bit of work, unless you're one of a few of my friends, in which
case PM me if you want to identify yourself.
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Re: Would you warn someone that they were easily identifiable?
By: Victoria Date: June 4, 2018, 11:01 am
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I can't speak for anyone else but if it's me, please shoot me a
pm. :P
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Re: Would you warn someone that they were easily identifiable?
By: Roodabega Date: August 17, 2018, 8:50 am
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I am friends in FB with a woman at work. She and her friends
were arranging a get together and they were all posting their
phone numbers on the post. The post was originated by someone
else who I wasn't friends with, but I was seeing all of their
phone numbers because I was a "friend of a friend". I did an
FYI private message to my friend letting her know if I could see
the post of HER friend, then so can all of the other "friends of
friends" and everyone who read it now had her phone number.
Shortly after I mentioned that, she modified her post, and I
noticed that almost all of the other phone numbers were soon
gone.
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