[ SECRET POST #2287 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2287 ⌋

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All the personal questions

[(Anonymous)]

Okay.

Am I the only one slightly weirded out by this? I am reminded of the person who claimed to note down details of everyone who posts here, and at the time I ignored it as petty trolling to get people paranoid, but then had an anon perfectly comment on someone trying to give information about their job whilst anonymous - whilst it wasn't actually me, it was someone in the same niche career-field and they got the only other person it could be on the second guess.

Now I'd never actually given my job, they'd pulled it together from the very little I'd divulged.

Just saying people here should probably be careful of oversharing, because if someone kept careful notes - which being hooked up to a pc is pretty damn easy, they could build up a shockingly detailed dossier without a huge amount of effort.

Re: All the personal questions

[(Anonymous)]

Spreadsheet!Anon strikes again. D-:

Re: All the personal questions

[(Anonymous)]

Not really sure how anyone could find someone by using the "what would your name have been" question, though.

Re: All the personal questions

[(Anonymous)]

Most of the commenters are anon, and most of the nameds are socks. Not seeing the problem with people giving their signs. If someone asked folks to post a screenshot of their house on google maps, then we'd have a problem.

Re: All the personal questions

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Lets set aside IP tracking, and focus on just the sockaccounts.

-> First name
-> Age
-> Job
-> Location
-> Race
-> Month, or day of birth
-> Communities or interests they've expressed an interest in

How many regs could you have all this information for? Especially over a year or so.

Now add that to anything else attached to the e-mail account they used to create their sock, which obviously isn't a guarantee but is more common than you would expect.

Re: All the personal questions

[morieris]

I find your skepticism reasonable.

Re: All the personal questions

[(Anonymous)]

There are definitely some things I regret saying logged in, yeah.

I think this is sound advice.

Re: All the personal questions

[(Anonymous)]

I don't keep careful notes - or any notes at all - but I do tend to remember things, and it makes me feel creepy sometimes. It's not like I'm making an effort or anything! I just remember things that people say, that's all. I have a good memory. I can't help it.

But, yeah, don't overshare. Good advice.

Re: All the personal questions

[making_excuses]

I'm not scared of people finding out stuff about me, the really important stuff (full address, social security and so on) isn't something I tell anyone online or offline so.

I do think about what I tell and don't tell people online, but not more than I would if I talked to anyone in Real Life. I just don't think my past, sexuality or my hobbies are something I should be ashamed off or hide, so I don't.

also if you guys want to stalk/kill me in RL, I applaud your effort, because I really do live in the middle of no-where-Norway, so you would have to find me first

Re: All the personal questions

[childings.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't ever tell anyone my exact birthdate. I have divulged the year (and I guess since I gave my astrological sign they know what two months I could've possibly been born in) but that's it

But yeah I think ID thieves can find info on you using your birthdate so be careful about that

Not sure why telling someone what kind of job you have would matter? Unless maybe you gave out the exact place you worked, but I'm a public employee so that's public knowledge already

Re: All the personal questions

[writerserenyty]

This is me, too; this isn't a sock account (... is that a mistake?) but I don't tell anyone the super important stuff.

Re: All the personal questions

[badass_tiger]

Hah, I like your way of thinking, anon! I always think twice about the things I say here myself, especially on the personal question threads although probably not with what you have in mind.

Re: All the personal questions

[(Anonymous)]

That and people sharing informations about their health issues while logged in.
Especially if they have food allergies.

Re: All the personal questions

[dethtoll]

I'm with making_excuses -- I don't have a problem sharing certain things, like my name or whatever. Obviously I'm not stupid enough to give anyone my address or whatnot unless I know them really well.

It's all a matter of knowing what to share and who to share it with.

Re: All the personal questions

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I'm pretty careful about what information I share. Not only because of spreadsheet!anon, but I really definitely do not want this linked to my real name at all.

Re: All the personal questions

[partialsatyr]

honestly i think it's just a matter of not saying things if you dont want them brought back at you. even if there's not people making spreadsheets, i always work under the assumption that there's going to be at least one person who's going to recall some throwaway claim i make, so i just wont say that if i dont want it coming back later. to haunt me, so to speak.
anything i share here is stuff i'm comfortable with having people know
forever

Re: All the personal questions

[greenvelvetcake]

Zip it, you'll spoil everything. I was going to ask, 'F!S, what's your SSN?' tomorrow.

In the right thread this time.

[otakugal15]

This is why I ignore most of those threads. I've only done this one above and maybe one other that had nothing to do with anything too personal.

Re: All the personal questions

[(Anonymous)]

I did something like that for a lark for a different forum ages ago, and what I found was that people were often very inconsistent in who they claimed to be/what they did/what they liked, so even if you saved all the data in the world, there's no guaranteeing it's accurate.

Re: All the personal questions

[(Anonymous)]

I have an account, but I tend to reply to those personal questions threads anon anyway.

Re: All the personal questions

[(Anonymous)]

Paranoid people make me irrationally angry.
What are going they going to do?!

Re: All the personal questions

[agentcthulhu]

IMO, you are perfectly fine as long as you are not giving out your real location, name, birth date or place of work on public online sites. While someone making the right guesses about who you are when you're not signed in may be slightly creepy, it's not like they can use the information you divulged anonymously to track you down IRL unless your personal information can already be found under your user name. This means information you shared on other sites too, not just on fandomsecrets. If you are using the same nickname consistently, you can be tracked across the web and information you shared on other sites can be dug up.

This is what I think can and can't be shared under an online handle. You might be comfortable sharing more or sharing less, and that's okay. This is just my opinion.
- If I have a rare name, I will only share it privately with people I trust.
- If I have an uncommon name, I will never ever ever share it online unless I'm anonymous, I can use a different account that's separate from the one I'm using, or I'm sharing it over private messages with someone I trust.
- If I have an extremely common first name, I can share it.
- If I have an extremely common first and last name combo like "John Smith", I can share my name online if I don't share my location or my occupation, if my occupation is not common. (For example, "John Smith the cashier" is okay, "John Smith the NASA engineer" is not.)

- If I live in a small town or village, I will never share my location except in private.
- If I live in a small city, I will share it if I don't share any other personal info.
- If I live in a large city, I can share it.

- I can share my birthday if I've not shared anything else or if I've shared one of my common names + location.
- I will not share my birthday if I've shared my first+last names. Never ever ever.

- I will never share my place of work.
- I can share my occupation if it is common (receptionist, bartender), but I won't share it if there it is the only job of its kind in my location. (I won't tell people I'm a dentist if I'm the only dentist in my city and I've shared where I live. I can tell people I'm a dentist if I gave out my state/country location and there are more than a handful of dentists in my state/country.).
- I can talk about some of my experiences at work if I don't share my name, location, employer or any other identifying info. ("I am a civil engineer, this is what people have most misconceptions about with regards to my job" is okay, "I am a department head at my university and I see most of my students at the beginning of the year..." is okay, "I am the head of [specific department]" is too much info IMHO.)

In addition, I will never share any other uniquely identifying information. An unusual allergy (allergy to water will not be shared, allergy to peanuts can be shared), photos of birthmarks or unusual scars, parentage (if my family are the only Kenyans in town, for example), participation in experiences that made the news - basically, anything that can positively ID me even without a name.

TL:DR - You should be safe as long as you are not sharing your real name, DoB, location, employer and occupation all under one nickname, or your full name name+location or full name name+DoB. Fake info are fine. Fake info are great, actually. Using the same online name on multiple sites makes it easy for your friends to find you but it also makes it easy for trolls to find you. You can linking your real and online nicknames as long as you know what you are getting into, for real life drama can potentially ruin your online life and online drama can potentially ruin your real life too.

TL:TL:DR:DR - Practice safe surfing everyone!

Re: All the personal questions

[forgottenjester]

Yeah some of these questions are too personal for me. So I either do one of three things: I don't answer, I give a bullshit answer (genies), or I'm very vague.

It's not that I think anyone could really use anything I post here against me. (Unless I post something really stupid like my SSN.) I just like keeping personal stuff personal.

Re: All the personal questions

[deenaa]

I think I'm probably okay - any spreadsheet info on me is probably just 'really angry about Doctor Who, family is full of shitty people'.

And good luck with that info, that's like ten people I know irl. :P

Re: All the personal questions

[cloud_riven]

Well fuck. Now I'm paranoid :( Doesn't help that some of you even might already know my face ah fuck.

I will calm myself down with the knowledge that no one ever comes to Edmonton anyways ohhhh nooo i did it again \D:/