How private are you online and why?
July 19, 2015 5:34 PM Subscribe
I want to start putting my artwork and writing online but I feel self conscious and am concerned about how to control my online presence. How did you decide how private you are online?
When I read blogs by people who just openly give out their real name, tell people where they live and work, show pictures of their children, or tell the world about very personal stuff, it makes me squirm to think about exposing that much of my life to anyone and everyone. Acquaintances, like neighbours and parents from my childrens' schools, bother me more than strangers.
But often those are the blogs that people seem to love most because there is a real person there, and they seem genuine and vulnerable and people appreciate the sharing...and that's how they also end up with more hits and connections. I want to be able to tell friends to look at my work because part of what I want to do is sell my artwork.
I won't be putting up anything controversial or sensitive but still, I'm worried about little things like the principal at my kids' school who doesn't like me, seeing more of me than I want. I feel like once I put myself online, I am all there and can't control who sees what. And I don't just mean blogs or the website I am building, I am talking about even littler things like linking your real name and life to your MetaFilter account.
How did you decide what kind of online presence you have? Tell me why you did/didn't do/join/use certain things.
What are your thoughts on privacy, for you and your family?
I know that with not much digging, people will be able to join dots even if I use a pseudonym...so maybe I just need reassurance that if I do x, y and z, I can stay pretty safe.
When I read blogs by people who just openly give out their real name, tell people where they live and work, show pictures of their children, or tell the world about very personal stuff, it makes me squirm to think about exposing that much of my life to anyone and everyone. Acquaintances, like neighbours and parents from my childrens' schools, bother me more than strangers.
But often those are the blogs that people seem to love most because there is a real person there, and they seem genuine and vulnerable and people appreciate the sharing...and that's how they also end up with more hits and connections. I want to be able to tell friends to look at my work because part of what I want to do is sell my artwork.
I won't be putting up anything controversial or sensitive but still, I'm worried about little things like the principal at my kids' school who doesn't like me, seeing more of me than I want. I feel like once I put myself online, I am all there and can't control who sees what. And I don't just mean blogs or the website I am building, I am talking about even littler things like linking your real name and life to your MetaFilter account.
How did you decide what kind of online presence you have? Tell me why you did/didn't do/join/use certain things.
What are your thoughts on privacy, for you and your family?
I know that with not much digging, people will be able to join dots even if I use a pseudonym...so maybe I just need reassurance that if I do x, y and z, I can stay pretty safe.
This post was deleted for the following reason: Heya, this is too sort of broad and just-curious to really work as framed; if there's a more specific concrete concern that would make this directly answerable rather than sort of chatfilter, that'd be okay. -- cortex
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