No, no, my dear, I never said you offended me. I was also surprised at the sudden quantity of the posts, but I just thought you had lots of free time and were a bit bored so you thought why not socialize a bit. I didn’t give too much thought about your motives.
My only purpose on writing this post is that people should be aware when posting, because we tend to write without thinking.
And it wasn’t only your posts and those of other people on social.
The conversation between Linda and me (the one you wanted to bury) made me understand that, here and there, we all post various little things that, if someone takes the trouble to look back and search, and gathers everything together, could give quite a lot away.
If you look not so much here but on the pages of dramas, not only in the comments below the video but even in the timed comments, you will be amazed at the amount of people who react emotionally to a situation in a drama and comments saying that they’ve also gone through a divorce, they are also a child of divorced parents, they are also adopted, they have issues with their parents and spouses, talk about their children and love life, about their health problems… Incredible, isn’t it?
I’ve started to look at my own postings as well, and I started to delete things that I thought too personal… but I know I won’t have the patience to complete the job.
This realization happened to coincide with my boss asking me to delete her birth year from the web, and how difficult it was to do it.
(And let’s not even start talking about Facebook)
So it wasn’t only one thing (your posts in Social) but a combination of three different things which happened at the same time, that triggered those thoughts, making me ponder about privacy on the web. Some people may not care about anonymity, others may be very careful, and others may not care now but they might care later. What is obvious is that it’s very easy to put information out there and very difficult to take it back in case you want to take it back.
That’s why I wanted to point out to people, remind them (because most of them know it already) that of course they can do what they want - and of course nobody forces them - but they should just be aware of what they’re doing, make an informed choice.
Just as simple as that. So don’t read anything more in it and don’t feel you have the need to defend yourself. I absolutely know it was done innocently (I have also written that in my first post) and I never felt offended in any way. I apologize if it sounded that way, but it was not my intent at all. In any case, the responsibility lies with the person who answers, not the person who asked the question.
I.
P.S. Here in Greece there is a well-known crystal healer, who has (or rather had) quite a large collection of crystals, built over the years, some of which very expensive. Last year she posted on Facebook that the following weekend she would be attending a big event, an alternative therapies festival, abroad. How innocent is that? Well, that weekend while she was away someone broke into her house and stole all her crystals.
