How are your IRL & online id's connected ... how public is your online id .... how much private info do you share online ... who from IRL do you "let in" to your virtual world ... has posting ever caused you problems from people making the connection who you wish hadn't?Great topic!
I have been rather private about my location and my identity over the years-- I have also firewalled my online identity in that here (and a few other places where I also maintain anonymity) I do not mix those identities.
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have occasionally steered people here in my other guises, however, if they seem to need the information that is to be had here. I can count on both hands the number of people that I've known online who know my ENTIRE identity, however.
As administrator here in my alternate identity, I have outed myself to others IRL in also just a handful of instances. My close friends know that I do this-- but most of them, even, do not know the specific url of this site.
I am not on Twitter, FB, or instagram.
Partly, this is about me-- I'm an introvert and a deeply private person. Partly, though, it is because I can be MUCH more forthcoming and detailed about what I post here-- because without those other pieces of identifying info (and yeah, people who have been here for years and years COULD put it all together-- I'm aware) they still don't identify either me, or-- more critically-- MY FAMILY.
I've considered the use of SM for FA advocacy-- but I've concluded that mixing the two streams is unwise... all it takes is one tiny little viral
thing and your family's privacy is gone. My DD is pretty vulnerable already by virtue of being an outlier in other domains. So.
I do this moderating and message board thing pretty well. So I'm sticking with that.