Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Quick Message About Anonymity

So far I know of two blog readers who found out they're connected to me in real life.

This is a little disturbing, since I try to stay as anonymous as possible here, with no pictures and no work/educational/organizational discussion.

Both these readers strike me as extremely nice and thoughtful people, so I'm not worried about them, I'm just worried that more and more people may start to connect my real-life and internet identities. I'm not a supersocial person, or any kind of public figure, but I am kind of conspicuous.

I think I'm going to establish a back-up password-protected mirror blog. I do promise I won't "go dark" entirely, but if I start feeling really conspicuous, I may need to turn down the lights a little bit and remove some of the more personal information.

2 comments:

zunzun said...

Just for the record since I recently outed myself:

I have NO IDEA who you are in real life!LOL

Joking aside...it's understandable.

Anita said...

There's an option to stop your blog from appearing on google searches. (maybe you already did that) I did that and it really cut down on my traffic, but made it so I'm not so wide open either, without going entirely private.