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The pseudonym matters, though. You don't have my phone number, my address, where I work / went to school, etc.
There is a huge difference between the mostly anonymous avatars at TFP and the blatant this-is-my-life crap at Facebook.
You can dig in TFP all you want and try to interpret "Prime Self" and "time displacement equipment technician."
Might try to dig through ~6000 posts or my blog to find out little snippets of my life, but I'm pretty forgettable.
Facebook is, generally speaking, a picture phonebook where people bitch and moan and gossip.
Pretty sure there is a reason every clearance'd employer checks for your Intarwebz footprint.
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FaceySpace is a huge gaping cancer sore to those of us that like our privacy.
I made the mistake of having a profile and I was popping up everywhere.
Emailed a specific TFPer once, unrelated to FB, and suddenly I was popping up on other TFPers FBs.
Totally scary. Facebook had hooked me up with people with which I had zero direct contact.
I thought I had restricted things to the highest level possible, but apparently not.
The fact that Facebook uses email account info really turns it into a privacy mess.
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The only way to prevent such nuisance is to not be there in the first place.
And, as far as your partner goes, have them keep their cyber mouth shut.
Last edited by Plan9; 10-25-2009 at 08:13 AM..
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