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[fahye]

This is something that makes me very curious: to what extent do you try to keep your online life/persona separate from your RL one, and why?

I realise that there are many legitimate and important reasons, but I don't make any efforts in that direction whatsoever, so it's interesting to me. I wouldn't care at ALL if anyone I knew in real life, including any members of my family, were to find this blog. The things I write and the opinions I have are every bit as much me as the person who goes to uni and sings in a choir and...I don't have a lot of time for anyone who'd judge me on it.

Maybe it's because I was introduced to LJ by RL friends. Maybe it's that I'm not in a Real Job. Anyway. Talk to me, flist.

Comments

[silveraspen]

Less than I used to, more than others do, I think. Partly it's due to an overall cultural change in what's acceptable for public consumption online in general.

But I do try to limit the amount of personal identifying information that is available, although I know that right now a determined person could track me down through what's out there in ways I don't intend to enumerate here. Still, my online persona was linked pretty solidly with my offline one through me becoming a contact point for some fandom-based charity work a while ago. (However, it's been long enough that I think that may have faded again.)

Anything that could seriously affect me professionally doesn't get written about in an unlocked setting or gets altered to the point of general bland nonrecognition. I've "known" people who got fired or suffered reprimands due to lack of discretion in such cases.