How much info about yourself are you willing to give?

[olli64pc]

One thing i'm pretty open about When i'm online is that I have trouble spilling I can read perfectly fine but spelling not so much

 

[stealthRUSH]

I try to keep a discreet presence online ever since my first account using AOL (America Online Internet service back in the day) The only time I remember posting a photo of myself was during MySpace but with a different alias, and that was years ago. so yeah not into advertising my name, photos, location, etc.

 

[Octopus]

I keep details low for obvious reasons- not that I'm afraid to share anything with the good people of RetroGameTalk of course, but just for basic safety reasons. So all you get out of me is my country and the fact that I'm obsessed with TTRPGs, it keeps some mystery alive. Who knows, maybe I'm not even real...

 

[MajesticSiN]

I grew up in the "don't share stuff online" era so I still kinda got that ingrained in me.

 

[RetroLaw]

I grew up in the "don't share stuff online" era so I still kinda got that ingrained in me.

You've shared your love for Suikoden though

 

[rotten51]

as little as possible

 

[Ikagura]

I grew up in the "don't share stuff online" era so I still kinda got that ingrained in me.

I'm curious, which years was that era?

 

[DunkeyKong]

I keep details low for obvious reasons- not that I'm afraid to share anything with the good people of RetroGameTalk of course, but just for basic safety reasons. So all you get out of me is my country and the fact that I'm obsessed with TTRPGs, it keeps some mystery alive. Who knows, maybe I'm not even real...

But that's just a theory! A- (redacted)

 

[spectresfrommercury]

absoultely nothing period.

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absoultely nothing period.

 

[Another Iori]

Yeah that was great.

I would love to get @Gorse adress so we can talk about how Rocky 2 is absolute trash.

Nobody believed in the first 'Rocky' or in Stallone, so, when this product exploded in orbit, I imagine someone at the production company said 'hey, we can do it again, but this time let’s wrap it up with Rocky winning?'

The only 'Rocky' movie I truly hate is the fifth one and in fact it killed the franchise for 16 years.

On the other hand 'Rocky Balboa' wasn't bad, but Sly was too old to play a boxer (he was 60 years old at the time).

 

[ObscureJigglypuff]

Basically, nothing important.
I prefer to be as obscure as i can about this, just like any cryptic horror game.

 

[VampireLord1024]

I may or may not actually be at Yui Hirasawa's house.

 

[Ikagura]

I'm an eukaryote.

 

[Mr. SyS]

I too come from the era (2000s) when sharing too much about yourself was considered dangerous so I try to be careful.

 

[Ikagura]

I too come from the era (2000s) when sharing too much about yourself was considered dangerous so I try to be careful.

Isn't it still dangerous even today?

 

[Poltergeist]

I never share any details about myself that can track back to me IRL. Especially, on websites about piracy, lol. I also figured how to use encryption tools to keep my digital stuff as protected as possible.

 

[Mr. SyS]

Isn't it still dangerous even today?

Oh yes, very.

 

[Ikagura]

Oh yes, very.

I saw how some Doom wads had addresses from the wad creators which tells how different things were...

 

[Waffles]

I saw how some Doom wads had addresses from the wad creators which tells how different things were...

I remember downloading a few in the early aughts and seeing how some people would write their email addresses on the maps themselves through texture editing.

 

[sunfishluvar]

very little, usually not important. especially because giving too much info about yourself online at an age can be rlly dangerous.
nowadays i've seen cases of people around my age (hell even younger) get groomed online left and right, and it's really disheartening to see, and it's why i avoid places where i've commonly seen this happen like the plague (discord is very infamous for such thing)

 

[antii]

I’m only really comfortable saying where I’m from mostly cause I live in a big ass city . But when it comes to name and other stuff it’s all strictly internet unless I get to know you better and know I can trust that person cause people are crazy if you can’t trust them it’s a really grey area. Plus I grew up in that era of tech in like the 2010s like don’t share your information and tell people your name or address so that made me paranoid when I was kid but once I got to like middle school and used the internet better than the people that used to try and teach it to us I wasn’t afraid

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very little, usually not important. especially because giving too much info about yourself online at an age can be rlly dangerous.
nowadays i've seen cases of people around my age (hell even younger) get groomed online left and right, and it's really disheartening to see, and it's why i avoid places where i've commonly seen this happen like the plague (discord is very infamous for such thing)

Yo discord is the worse fucking offender when it comes to people gettting groomed and the groomers for the most part get away with it

 

[Sandteufel]

I'm rather matter of fact about myself and lack the ability to lie, though it isn't exactly a virtue, I just can't. My brutal honesty has gotten me into some dicey situations IRL. As a result a lot about myself can be gleamed without intention. With those I trust, both on the Internet and IRL, it's a different story; my family and friends have had a very lurid look into the worst parts of my personality and somehow still love me. I can never repay that.

I’m only really comfortable saying where I’m from mostly cause I live in a big ass city

Big city gang represent.

 

[shubiduba]

Not that I have much to hide, but I also just don't like it. We can just focus more on topic (or on off-topic ranting, if that's the case) like this. I like to have my privacy and personal space respected. It's not much of an issue if I make friends online, but there were few of those who I ever saw IRL.

When I was growing up in the mid-2000s, there was this huge moral panic sweeping my community about kids sharing information about themselves online. My grade school actually had an all-student assembly one day where my principal told us, in no uncertain terms, never to share our names (especially our last names) or ages on the internet. This was way before social media — the way we were all communicating was through MSN’s instant messenger, and the idea of putting a photo of yourself online wasn’t realistic — but I remember being pretty spooked by it.

The scare wasn’t limited to our schools, either — I remember my mom, who usually didn’t mind what TV shows I watched, specifically forbidding me from watching To Catch a Predator, because it showed adults creeping on supposed “kids” through Internet chat rooms. Many of my friends confirmed to me that they had also been been banned from watching shows about that kind of thing, so obviously the parents were talking about it behind our backs.

Everyone had chilled out by the time Facebook came around in 2009/2010 — parents were on it too, so I guess they felt it was trustworthy — but ever since then I’ve been apprehensive about revealing any more information about myself online than I need to. Outside of LinkedIn, which I begrudgingly use for professional networking, I’ve never joined a social media channel, and would sure as fuck never add my photo and real name to one.

Following the recent U.S. election, a ton of people who I work with online have been posting very angry, very explicit material on their LinkedIn pages, with their full name and a photo of their face attached to it. I cannot imagine a time in my life where I’ll ever feel comfortable doing that, and frankly, I think it’s for the best.

Man, I've been around the web for long too. I realy think the internet was actually a lot safer when the generation immediately before us (our parents, i.e.) wasn't online. Ever since they got in, it's been a shitstorm of disinformation and general stupidity. I also think it opened the way for a lot more hate speech, which made its way towards the younger ones. We weren't perfect and it wasn't all fun and giggles, but damn it got worse. Lots of fake stuff around, and we got rid of pop-ups just to have paywalls and advertising on absolutely everything.

I do have the "clean web persona" needed for work on the adequate spaces, though. But it's just not fun and I can't bring myself to talk about anything at all on those, really.

 

[Somnia]

Ever since I was a tiny kid, I was always way too forthcoming with personal information online. Never enough to lead to anything wild happening, but I would give out my phone number to people (only a few and they all happened to also be kids thankfully) and was always willing to share personal stories. Didn't start posting photos of myself publicly until I was like 17 though because I was always way too drenched in self-loathing to stand looking at myself in a mirror let alone taking pictures to share with others.

Nowadays I tend to be as carefree as everyone else for better or worse.