Comments on: Anonymity and Facebook

By: Mystyfi

Mystyfi — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:33:37 +0000

My personal and online life have some intertwining. I only share my online presence with those I can trust, and who know what I do.

My main concern is potential employers finding out what I do in my spare time. So I will never post my name, my friends names, or anything else on my adult-style blog.

By: rage

rage — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:40:36 +0000

That is some scary shit. I try to keep all of that crap separate like you do but weird stuff happens.

I am real pissed right now with fb because I can never get into my account. It’s always closed for site maintenance.

By: Fantasia Lillith

Fantasia Lillith — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:25:14 +0000

I feel your words. It’s … tough. At times I wonder why I am so afraid of being outed.

By: Buddha

Buddha — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:45:36 +0000

Yeah… Facebook is a bit creepy that way

By: Sexcounts

Sexcounts — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:11:42 +0000

Oh I’ve had a few scares with Tumblr, but I’ve managed to keep my exposure low overall and kept really up on how all the various sites work. I’ve got my blog on Tumblr, and while Tumblr will let you keep multiple blogs under one account, I have always kept them on separate emails so none of my real friends/family can accidentally find it through email, and I make it a point to never reblog anything off of my “civilian” blog or anything that I have reblogged on my civilian blog for fear that both user names will show up in the history for an entry. I don’t use names, or even name my city. With maybe 2 exceptions I don’t even follow the same blogs. I let little personal things slip like being young, living by the coast, and I’ve done a few nudes but I try to keep them vague and filter out anything to distinguishing.
Ever since you emailed me after reblogging you I got super cautious about sites that might ping their users.

I did have some scares with the ex. She said things that seemed to mirror things in my blog, and once asked what I thought of a bra that a couple months before I had bought for myself (she doesn’t know about my cross-dressing at home).

Worst instance though: I started blogging a bunch of pics in rapid succession not realizing that I was logged onto my civilian blog. Thank goodness I was setting them to queue to post later and I was able to delete them before they posted. That blog is seen by friends, family (including my mother), and co-workers.

By: Vixen

Vixen — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:18:36 +0000

Ah…. I had this same thing happen with FB. I don’t and never have had a ‘blog name FB’. But I do have a personal REAL LIFE FB account. And the same thing has happened on occasion with that fun little ‘recommend friends’ feature. I do everything I can to keep my RL gmail account and my Blogger gmail account separate but on occasion the two worlds collide a bit too close for comfort.

By: unique_stephen

unique_stephen — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:18:44 +0000

I’m happy for the worlds to mix a little. None of us are 24/7 Mr and Mrs Prim Professional. But I do have to take care to separate my personal and professional blogging – I work in technology and we use blogs a lot to communicate.
I think they call it the “creepy tree house”

By: Ronald10021

Ronald10021 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:45:25 +0000

I totally share your fears and frustations, which is why Blogger-M doesn’t have a Facebook account (though I do Tweet, and always make sure to log out of my Real Twitter Account before logging into my Blogger-Me account).

By: Dewey

Dewey — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:09:10 +0000

I barely have enough time to keep up my blog, leave comments for others, and stay on Facebook. But that’s just me. I can’t imagine having a FB blogger identity. Well ok, I do admit that i have time to make up places like hot blogger island, but, otherwise, I don’t know how ya do it.

What I can understand is the sudden fear you felt when the two worlds, the blogger and real you collided. That would scare the shit out of me. Someday, I’ll be able to do that, but it’s not necessarily a goal of mine. I really do like being anonymous and knowing the only I know who the real Dewey is. :)

By: dareuu

dareuu — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:08:12 +0000

I have had a lot of internal battles on how to deal with the anonymity thing. I am a totally different person in real life than I am in the cyber world. I’d like to be more open but my real life would not be able to handle the cyber me.

I have closed my blog and opened it up so many times that I’m surprised blogger hasn’t disabled my account yet. I am still searching for what I want to blog about. I have various cyber friends that I share things with that I don’t share on my blog. Maybe one of these days I’ll get brave and share it all in the open.

But not yet.