Everyone who I'm currently friends is still a friend. I'm going to make a post soon explaining why I've decided to start f-locking posts containing personal information. It mainly as to do with the realization that over the past two (almost 3 years) I've put a lot of detailed info about myself out there. This never bothered me before but I recently read a very scary article in the Chicago Reader about a truly bizarre internet scam and it's made me realize that I ought to be more careful.
Yes, I have wondered why you used your real name on your info page, along with childhood and current pictures. I assumed that you felt very safely anonymous.
Ana Sara Rexell is actually a psuedonym, not my real name and I do change all named on this journal but I realized it wouldn't be too hard for to figure out where I worked and given that I've posted pictures it would be easy enough for someone to identify me if they had a mind to. I guess I've always assumed I'm under the radar but the article I read sort of reminded me that there are are people out there who will do harm for no reason other than that they can and it just seems safer to be a little more careful.
No way! The Slightly Naive Ana Sara Rexell isn't real? And all this time I thought you, or she, was simply lacking in self-protective instincts. Although I did consider that "Ana" was a surprisingly European, trendy name for religious parents like yours to have given.
I always think of myself as border-line paranoid, but other than changing names (my own and those of family and friends I mention-- my sister's name isn't really Vienna) and being vague about exactly where I life, I really haven't taken a lot of precautions to protect my identity. All the photos I post are real and I've explicitly named my place of employment on more than one occasion. I never really worried about doing this because I figured I was pretty much under the radar but you never know and I actually have been involved in an odd situation where a real life friend from college was making minor changes to details of my journal entries (changing Methodist to Catholic in a post on religion for instance) and re-posting them as her own so stuff can happen.
The background of my on-line name-- when I started my journal I planned on focusing on eating disorders so I gave myself a name-- Ana Rexell-- that was a play on anorexia.
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The background of my on-line name-- when I started my journal I planned on focusing on eating disorders so I gave myself a name-- Ana Rexell-- that was a play on anorexia.
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