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Ever Been Identified on DS Forums...?!!
deans6571
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Not sure I've picked the correct title here but what I mean is this:
Say you're writing up a post looking for some advice or you are posting your thoughts about a particular person - has that person (obviously, without your knowledge) then read your post (but in the guise of a fellow DS Forums user) and said - OI, ITS ME - STOP WRITING ABOUT ME...!!!!
Does that make any sense...!?!?!? Oh - I know what I mean.....!!!!
Say you're writing up a post looking for some advice or you are posting your thoughts about a particular person - has that person (obviously, without your knowledge) then read your post (but in the guise of a fellow DS Forums user) and said - OI, ITS ME - STOP WRITING ABOUT ME...!!!!
Does that make any sense...!?!?!? Oh - I know what I mean.....!!!!
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How would you know that 'that person' had read your post if they did so 'obviously, without your knowledge?'
Has someone written a post which you think is about you?! Go on then, share it.
I hope it's nothing sad like, "I'm cheating on my husband, I might be pregnant - whose baby is it?"
*chants* Jerry...Jerry...Jerry...
I recognised one of my (real life) friends on here, though, once. Although I PM'd him. Didn't give a shout out on a thread. ;o)
And I'm on another forum when I pissed off some ladies who took something rude I said a bit personal, on a board where their proud boast was 'nothing is personal', one of them creepily suggested she had spotted me on "another forum on the internet" (must have meant DS) and got the others to post--stalk me here, presumably, which freaked the bejaybus out of me. There are some creepy folk about.
Oi Dean!
Get back to work!
Exactly. People on forums are completely anonymous to other posters. As long as no names are mentioned, how would the person you're talking about know that it was you? No faces to see. No names to know. No addresses to know. There's no way of knowing who anyone is on here.
....well not necessarily!
You can Google DS usernames to see if there is a trail which identifies the person behind the user name!
.....sorry boss!!
Eh? How's that then? Unless said person uses the same username elsewhere, which is a bit daft if they don't want to be identified...
I just Googled my username and it brought up a whole page of results about people who are nothing to do with me... Except for the link to my DS profile.
Anyone trying to identify me would be better off just looking me up on Twitter
Needless to say, me providing the link to my Twitter account and posting a picture in the "post a picture of yourself" thread is a pretty strong indicator that I'm not bothered about being identified on here.
...to be honest - my profile is exactly the same! Its also linked to my Twitter feed which obviously shows who I am!! Not bothered as I don't have any skeletons in my closet.....!!!
Like people linking to images hosted on their Photobucket account which they registered under their real-name.
It will be useless unless the person behind the username has gave out identifiable information on another forum. I would think only a small minority would have done this.
Yep. Again, only a very small minority would likely have done this. I'd say about 90% of internet users who've signed up to anything that doesn't require their real name to be shown put in a username.
I don't mind though
On a slightly different note, a forum member told me a few months ago that they had managed to find me on facebook, so therefore they know my real name and what I look like etc. I have no idea if that's true or not but it quite possibly is. Just hope they aren't some kind of deranged killer - if anything happens to me then I hope they are made prime suspect! :D
They'll probably read my post now, and like in the OP, will know full well it's them I'm talking about.
If I thought that no-one would ever work out who I was I might feel that I had greater freedom to be extreme - certainly this seems to be the approach of some members who write some very weird stuff.
... or they can click on a Twitter link.
How?
And also, that's creepy as hell.