You're as anonymous as you choose to be on any given online forum. Some people are extremely open, and will tell you all sorts of things about their friends and family, where they live, that sort of thing. Others are extremely private, and will even go to the point of maintaining an online 'persona'. In other forums that I frequent, I'm not generally very open, but there's a few people who I'd consider friends. I don't talk to these people much differently than my friends in real life, and I've met a fair number of people in real life after having only talked with them online. Essentially, if you feel you don't have any anonymity, it's a product of your own choices and decisions.
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