Every account you ever had, every post/comment you ever posted, now has your real name, a photo of you, and your address, all just magically show up on the webpage right next to each of your posts/comments (also, no “hacking” could hide the info). All deleted posts/comments are magically restored and nothing you do (short of permanently shutting down the website and physical destruction of the servers) can delete them. (Any edits would still show every change you made.) How fucked are you?
And don’t think about changing your name, or moving, all this info updates in real time. (for “magic” reason)
(You also cannot delete any future posts.)
No one would notice or care… 1/10 🙂
Same. The most surprising thing might be that I even have accounts online. And that I love pictures of scrungy cats.
I love pictures of scrungy cats.
Honestly, who doesn’t?
I tend to enjoy being devil’s advocate on controversial subjects so I’d score a 9/10 fucked through sheer misinterpretation
Absolutely same. I actually pretended to be a communist when I was in high school.
Add in a few remarks on porn sites, I’m pretty sure I’d have to change my name, my face, and go live in Brazil or something
My real name is so generic, even if I doxxed myself you wouldn’t find me anywhere.
Everyone I know IRL already knows my online identity.
I’ve got you now, John Smith!
127.0. 0.1Scared yet??!?
I worked with a John Smith who came from Chicago. He would joke about hiding from the mob. At least I think he was joking…
I spoiled a part of Infinity War back in the day, and I’d expect a 305 lb katana wielding fedora wearer to appear out of the shadows at my door. Those dudes were pissed and drunk me didn’t even know I did it until the mod that banned me for a month pointed it out.
You could take permanent sanctuary in a health food store or a gym.
Yeah, but then I’ll be in a health food store or a gym.
you did WHAT
Whether or not I am anonymous does not change how/what I post. I also never delete any so nothing changes regarding that too. Cringe to be acting uncivil because you have a mask.
Facts. I’ve been posting exclusively as Postmortal_Pop on every platform I’ve been on since 2010. If someone wants me, they’d be downright incompetent if they couldn’t find me. That’s my name as much as my real name.
You should never post anything online that you wouldn’t be comfortable shouting at the top of your lungs in the middle of your hometown.
You don’t have feral horny alts? I mean me either, what a bunch of weirdos.
Not very, unless the nazis I’m reminding people that every day is punch one of manage to wheezingly waddle up from the basement and attempt to do something about it despite my genes being more pure norse whitey aryan than they could ever dream of so attempts of me life would just be another proof of my superior intellectual reasoning to their simplistic racism tribalism.
Depending on country. In some, the nazis are already in government.
And/or are about to be. Many of them anyways.
There’s a reason why I post under my real name and never delete anything. Because your scenario has a high probability of really happening one way or another. That way I’m more conscious of the stuff I post.
A woman I know had an anonymous blog where she posted stuff about her kids without mentioning any names or showing any photos in an effort to protect them. My wife, who only knows her from her un-anonymised blog found that other blog and recognised her really quickly.
Yup, what people don’t get about online privacy is that it’s not about hiding things, but knowing what is exposed. If you voluntarily expose something on one account that might get tracked back to you.
Embarrassed, but not fucked.
Yeah, some suspicions about my level of motivation at work would be confirmed, and my perfectly adequate but kinda basic neighbors might realize it’s not just my being awkward AF that keeps me from hanging out more, but that’s probably the worst of it. Half the things I delete are to make it slightly harder to dox me than it is now, and most of the rest are things I’ve said elsewhere but don’t feel like defending point-by-point in that particular thread.
Ehhh, I would be shunned by 2 or 3 family members, which might be a net benefit. I hope the former Oklahoma governor’s daughter doesn’t come after me. I’m more scared of that waxen pale nepobaby more than anyone else. She’s got the money and time to cause havoc, the others do not.
Wait, how is she the governers former daughter?
Ya got me, maybe she started being former when her mom failed to be reelected and the money dried up. ;)
I’d be fine. I’ve always been aware of the tenuous nature of being anonymous online.
Same. My friends already have the ability to easily find all the dumb shit I post online if they cared to and nothing I’ve posted would cause any legal trouble, just piss off some bigots and those who don’t understand that crude internet humor is just humor. James Gunn’s old posts have me beat and he’s still doing alright.
I’m sure I’d be screwed. Just by the nature of the internet, someone in the various posts would find something that would enrage them enough to hunt me down and throw a cocktail at my house. Even if only one person in a million is insane and bent on revenge, overall I have enough posts that they’d come in contact with it. I’d for sure lose my job, since we have seen it happen on social media sites with folks’ real names attached.
Luckily, most of the comments I’ve made have been on sites that have permanently shut down, so I would escape the worst of my years becoming public knowledge.
Now, if it wasn’t just me, I’m sure I’d be lost in the relatively blase nature of my comments.
Did you know you can get someone’s address by typing in their email? Fuck data brokers. We need to outlaw their entire business model.
I’ll have some explaining to do, but I guess since everyone will have their dirty laundry out in the open, people will get quite more open-minded.
Also, people I care about know everything anyway.
I’ll be okay.
What the fuck, Pedro ?!
I don’t think I’ve really ever deleted anything that wasn’t just a simple mistake (e.g. duplicate post or whatever) so I’m not worried about much there
I guess some people in my life might not realise quite how left wing I am, but I’ve not really kept it under wraps to anyone that’s asked.
I assume I’ll probably get targeted more by identity thieves and similar, which ultimately will probably be the biggest thing to fuck me over about the whole situation
Guessing 2/10. Real name is very common. I’ve made plenty of shitty and dumb comments over the years, but it would simply be embarrassing and that would be it. I don’t hold any important or public positions.
