Quote from: Kay Henderson on January 30, 2010, 05:22:30 AM
I'm not concerned that someone may find me.

I'm just glad that I've found myself.

lol... so much truth in this^^^^^ when I first opened this thread I had to check to see if it was a crossdresser thread post. I guess anyone can feel like sharing yourself with the world is a risk depending on ones personal situation in life but for me ...meh, so what.... I'm not planning on sharing anything that would put me at risk anyway ..even if I could.
The only thing stopping me from posting more images is because it makes me feel vain which I'm far too introverted for.

Yes that's why I'm veiled.  Just pulling your leg Valentina

I've had my share of mental cases online too, so I'm very careful about what I say & whom I say it.  I'm not concerned anymore.

I'm not too concerned about privacy. I guess if someone finds me here my first thought would be, what where *they* doing here??! It would also be kind of a 'relief' to be outed by someone else. Maybe it would take the pressure off me then? idk... I seriously doubt anyone would be surprised to find out. 

I'm not concerned about my privacy. The only way anyone can connect this account to me is if they trace my IP or get onto my computer.

Even then, I don't really mind. If someone wants to "out" me, by all means, I'm not concerned about it anymore.

Most everyone I know - knows about my situation, because with my transition it is becoming hard, if not impossible to hide.

Quote from: Jasmine.m on February 02, 2010, 09:03:04 AM
I'm not too concerned about privacy. I guess if someone finds me here my first thought would be, what where *they* doing here??!

This. And besides, I live so far from the U.S. that even if someone knew about this side of me, they'd have to go through probably hundreds of TS discussion forums to find me, and probably wouldn't recoqnice me even if they saw my posts. But I'm still not going to use my picture as my avatar or anything. Well, honestly, I probably couldn't take seeing my face in my avatar pic every time I'm here at Susan's...

I don't.  I'm out.  I don't consider the things I talk about here as something I'm ashamed of or wouldn't stand behind if questioned about it.

No. I'm proud of who I am and what I've done.

It took a little while but I have come to like ALL of who I am, including the unconventional bits of my past, and I refuse to be ashamed of any of it. If someone doesn't get it then that's going to be their problem and their loss not mine.

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What a lovely thread to gain my half century post here on!

why would you want to know who i am anyway?  the internet isn't a safe place for anybody & i've also had my share of cyber psychos.  am i concerned about my privacy when i come to this site?  no, i've taken the necessary precautions to prevent this from happening again.

I've taken reasonable measures to cloak my identity, so i'm not too worried about it. My email is one I created for this site, i've never posted a pic of my face (although I do need a new avatar pic....), and with one exception I've been vague about what I do, where I live, and so on.

My concern is an employer figuring out who I am, with a secondary concern of somebody that I know figuring that out, but I don't lose sleep over it.

Nobody wants to know me because:
1) I'm Suzy Social Worker

2) My pic was taken in an office setting (really dull)

3) I am a political fanatic

4) I never relax, but always on my vigil to fight injustice!

 

To answer the question "Are you concerned about your privacy, when you come to this site?

Not worried in the slightest, because I have not been specific with the information in any of the posts that I have posted, I use a Linux operating system, the disk is fully encrypted, I use Firefox which will clean out the cache and history when I close it and my IP location changes after a shutdown and a reboot.

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From Placentia, California, United States
Sarah B

Be who you want to be.

I am not concerned.

I desire to surround myself with good people and supportive friends.  Whether that's IRL or online, that means taking risks.  Of course I'm not publicly posting my full name, address, work/school name, phone number, etc. - that's an invitation for an invasion of privacy.

I used to be a privacy freak... not anymore though.  I am no longer ashamed.  I no longer live in fear.  I find it overall better to share who I am than to hide who I am, or remain silent.

I've been silent for years...

Nope

Life's too short to be paranoid, although I think a little discretion is wise when laying yourself bare for all the internet to see.

I'm pretty sure that I could be tracked down by anyone who frequents this site. I wouldn't be all that surprised if someone with a snoopy personality already had. I seriously doubt anyone malevolent would care to; they'd have to sift through far to many postings of mine, and frankly, if they're local, I'd run into them eventually anyway. If they're not local, why would they come here? They've probably got plenty of local queer folk to harrass.

I'm far more worried about contacts I make IRL than on the Internet. I'm out in real life, unavoidably so, so it doesn't make much sense to be paranoid on the Internet. It's not like I'm publishing my SSN or bank account number.

Not at all. Privacy isn't ever something that I worry about though. If someone wants to know something about me, they just need to ask. Living behind a wall isn't really my style.

No, I am really not concerned with my privacy here.  If I am out of the closet anyway, this doesn't really matter to me.  Besides, with me moving around so much, and will be again so very soon...I really don't care who finds me.  I have to be true to myself.  I don't care what others think.  I can not control them.  The only person I can control is me.  And that to me is a huge step forward, as being able to control what I say, think, do, and act has been really hard until I learned to just let go.

I used to worry about it a ton when online and went lengths to make sure things were changed just a nudge on everything.  So that at best someone might make a passing glance to something similar they did 'n' such. 

However now?  I could careless.  Everyone who knows me pretty much knows but one person at this point and I am sure even he suspects something at the least.  No reason to hide anymore and I found out that it was just to stressful anyways to keep worrying about others.  I don't even bat an eye anymore if someone looks at me odd in the isles at Wal-Mart anymore. 

Unless you truly have to worry about something such as job loss from people who check around such as a background check?  Live in an area that is violent still against gays, etc? (They still exist.) Who gives a flying ->-bleeped-<- what others think.  You'll just stress yourself to death trying to hide it all the time.  Especially in a haven like this for us.

I am very concerned about my privacy for Todd and the kids, but that gosh darn liberal media jest won't quit.

Sorta weird.  I posted this thread before this:

https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,72388.0.html

but that's exactly what I was talking about.

Silly person    The one from the link that is.  That's why it's never a good idea to advertise your history online without measuring the consequences of your actions.

QuoteRe: Are you concerned about your privacy...

I'm not.  I don't do what that person did.