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Just curious.
Anonymity is a myth. If you don’t want to be known to have said it, don’t say it.
I change details a lot. Get the catharsis of pouring my soul while hopefully confounding whatever dipshit would think I’m a good target.
My name maybe has some letters in common with “Alice”.
I don’t really think I’m important enough for doxxing to matter. I’ve even posted my social security number in a chat room before, just for a laugh. Also my banking and paypal logins.
One time after I did that, I met a nice person who privately messaged me. They were just like me, same mothers maiden name, same name for our first pet, even went to the same first concert! what are the odds?
Anyways so like a week later some hacker stole my identity. I couldn’t believe it. The crazy part though is that my credit score actually went UP. About a month later the hacker actually called me and tried to make me take my identity back but I knew better than that. No backsies. Heh, sucker. Have fun with your new wife, moron.
Honestly, I was happy to have someone to talk to for a bit. It was nice.
What?
Uhm, well quite frankly I’m just living my life. There’s plenty of ways for others to mess it up. And people do screw with me, but I haven’t experienced identity theft yet or heard of anyone who experienced it. I’m actually more worried about a car hitting me.
I have a public facing persona separate from my legal name. Though I do take steps to decouple the two.
Bots have good reason to do it, because it makes them more relatable.
Humans sometimes can’t help themselves.