I’m a semi-private individual. In that, I will speak of things I am comfortable talking about by my own filtering. Once I let it out and speak of it, it could very well mean that I was comfortable posting that and almost nothing can make me feel guilt or embarrassment of saying it.
One thing I have observed people slipping on is that, people tend to have no filter. So they go on and on and on about themselves, not having a sense of the mind to think that someone out there, anywhere, could be documenting them. Sadly, there are those people that are out there.
On one hand, someone just wants to communicate, project themselves, let others know who they are. On another hand, they won’t know whether or not they’re being documented so that in turn, are re-broadcast to another community or someone else who is gonna just have a field day with some aspects of what you spoke about that could later crop up when you least expect it.
Often times you’ll hear people say that they don’t care what others think. It’s funny how most of the time that is uttered and it is challenged, people end up folding pretty fast at times. It implies that yes, you do to a degree, care about what people think of what you’ve said.
So this is why I’m semi-private. If I have the thought of ‘I don’t think I’m that comfortable talking about this’ then it is simply not spoken of. I think some people need to occasionally think that way.
There is some truth to the unwritten rule of the internet where, you shouldn’t gush too much about all aspects of your life. Reserve that for online journals or blogs.
Before having US citizenship, I probably would not mention any political things and like be vague about my location.
But now I have US Citizenship, and yes I know it’s not a magic shield, but it’s much better than non-citizens, so now I feel a bit more confident in just saying:
FUCK DONALD TRUMP, TREASONOUS PIECE OF SHIT
I have a lot of anecdotes and I really wanna share and that’ll inevitibly make it easier to track me down… but whatever… I have no one irl that would wanna listen, so I’m gonna tell my story on the internet, leave a permanent mark in history. Hi future historians 👋
I already disclosed my ethnicity and city… I don’t care anymore.
I feel safe sharingthe general area of where I previously lived.
But current location, yes I’d just be vague and the city is the most precise I’m comfortable sharing.
I mean some twitch streamers shate their face, name, and city and their address is still private, I should be fine since I’m a nobody and no names or face is shared.
But I’m still gonna guard my family secrets, well not the abusive things, that I need to vent about, but I’m not gonna tell you where my parents set up shop for example… don’t want any shitheads doing vandalism.
Not gonna tell my name, not gonna show my face.
I mean, I doubt any normie is actually gonna be able to find me from a few anecdotes, you need a lot of government databases to find who I am.
The NSA, tho, I have no doubt that they can find me if targeted this account, but I’m not that scared, there are like a million anti-trump comments online, what are the odds that I get persecuted? (I’m gonna jinks it aren’t I)
Hey if my address get leaked, I have an excuse to move xD, I’m getting tired of this place… but yea I’d try to not intentionally leak it.