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I behave here as I would anywhere else because for one: why try to mask my true personality?, and two: it takes way too much effort than I care to put forth to create an alter-ego for the sole purpose of browsing the net.
I do find it rather incredible, but not out of the realms of possibility, the amount of information you were able to amass about that one girl in particluar. Some individuals are careless when it comes to protecting their anonymity, while others don't care at all. What I feel holds true, yet still unbeknownst to many, is something that was remarked once by analog. It went something along the lines of "who said the internet was anonymous?". It could be extraordinarily easy for someone, anyone to record all my activites, for I would still remain unaware.
I think people on the net are free to divulge as little or as much as they feel inclined to do so. I just don't believe we should be deluded in thinking we are impervious when it comes to this cyber-plane of reality. I'm sure I could be being monitored or stalked, but I also am reassured that not many would care enough about my personal details to do so, and if so, I could care less what they reveal in their sleuthing. I do not go about flouting my real name, PIN #s, address and the like to any ol' bumpkin on the street, so why should I do so in an area where it could be utilized instantaneously to locate and potentially harm me?
I just never found myself able to totally disassociate my digital counterpart from my real one.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi
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