how much of your personal life do you withhold on DU?

[datasuspect]

being that online communication is sometimes frought with peril, how much of personal life do you allow to keep to yourself on DU or in your online life in general?











edited because i fear BNL's naked fury.

[Gormy Cuss]

1. You first.

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edited to reply to your question: I reveal as little as possible that is individually identifiable because I don't want to attract stalkers with nothing better to do.

[datasuspect]

2. i tend to hold my cards fairly close

i remember hearing about some guy who got fired because some freepers found out where he worked (a radio station) and did a phone/email/letter campaign against him.

of course, the federal government, who logs everything we all type here and everywhere else, know who i am, the average person hopefully can't get that info.

[some guy]

35. I did not

get fired. It was some *other* guy. :D

" i remember hearing about some guy who got fired... "

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. open book.

:P

[Gormy Cuss]

6. Which chapter are we on today?

Are we on the same page?
:P

[La Lioness Priyanka]

7. who knows.

just flip through.

[Gormy Cuss]

Your life is a flip-book?

Who knew?

[Lyric]

4. I'm pretty open about it.

I trust the people in the Lounge. I don't give out my Social Security number or anything, but this place is one of the few where I feel like I can trust people. :grouphug:

[BarenakedLady]

5. Well what are you asking?

In the title you ask how much of your personal life do you withhold...

In the body you as how much of your personal life do you allow to bleed through.

So the poll answers are for which question?

:shrug:

[datasuspect]

8. the lower you go, the more you reveal.

[BarenakedLady]

15. Well in that case...

not that much.

:P

[datasuspect]

16. those were instructions my dear

[BarenakedLady]

28. Hehehe

:evilgrin:

[Call Me Wesley]

9. Well, I consider pics

of what we look and where we live and our cat private, but I share these, along with some little other stuff. But that's it.

You'll never hear from me what my aunt said/did/not said/not did yesterday, but then, I don't either. And my neighbors are boring. It's a holiday house, so we see them four times a year, and it's a nice older couple. ;)

But here's my car, if you're interested:

[datasuspect]

11. hee hee!

nice hummer there!

[Call Me Wesley]

17. It comes with sweet lil' hearts, too.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. All that would allow some Jesus-lovin' Super Christian fuckwipe from killing me

or harassing me or outing me or otherwise making my life a living hell, "in the name of the God of love".

I don't trust freepers, so I don't post my picture, location, address, job, or anything else that a Jesus-loving fundy asswipe could use to figure out who I am.

[matcom]

12. chicken-shit

:P

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. It's not being chicken shit, it's being prudent - "freedom loving, America-loving,

Jesus-loving" people love nothing more than harassing or murdering people who differ from them.

:P:P:P:P:P

Besides, since I'm a liberal, I like to think of it as French-Surrender-Monkey-Let-the-Terrorists-Win-Shit, not chicken shit.

[datasuspect]

13. i did a google search on your username

and it returned many items that deal with death stars, illuminati, new world order, puppy mills, and price gouging.

[matcom]

14. do an image search

it shows him with all you can eat breadsticks at Olive Garden :rofl:

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. Actually, it offers a pic of me writing on the fountain in Washington Square

[matcom]

20. yeah but there is an Olive Garden in the background

and that is CLEARLY a breadstick in your pocket

[Rabrrrrrr]

22. That's not an Olive Garden, you jackass. It's a cracker barrel.

And it's not a breadstick, it's a "darkie repellent" baton.

[Inchworm]

18. I did other increment.. hmm 5%

Because I can't tell everything! Then what would keep me up all night battling in my head?

:hi:

[In_The_Wind]

23. I don't hide anything.

I am what you see right here on DU.

[datasuspect]

25. i'm very WYSIWYG

but i don't look at it as concealment. more like discretion.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

24. I'm pretty open, my dear datasuspect....

I don't tell my address or SSN# or stuff like that...

But if you look at my profile, you will see where I live...

And god knows I've posted a lot of pics of me and my family!

I suppose anyone who really wanted to could find me.......but I'm not making it easy for them!

I'd say I withhold about 5%..... :shrug:

:hi:

[Adsos Letter]

26. ...I withhold 50%...

...and the other half is all lies...

:D

[Guava Jelly]

27. People i am really close to I tell everything

Some know me pretty well here.
I call them friends

[StarryNite]

29. I am way to private to participate

in this poll.

[SarahB]

30. Most of it now.

I'm an open person about major events or my opinions in regard to assorted topics, but I rarely discuss specific things in my life especially in terms of interpersonal real life relationships or my children. I have very minimal online relationships these days and most of those I even occasionally PM are people I've actually met. I used to be more open and attracted some seriously weird people that I would not want to attract.

[SPKrazy]

31. I hide my identity

from the mafia

:yoiks:

although i have no idea why :crazy:



:rofl:75% open on here


25% was my answer

[bigwillq]

32. I am pretty open and honest

but there are some things I would never reveal on here.

[rug]

33. I only post on the progress of my venereal disease.

[datasuspect]

37. weren't you giving a reception for that somewhere?

i never got my invite!


please tell us the minute by minute details of your pathogens' progress!

[rug]

38. Minute is not a word I use in connection with my venereal disease.

[some guy]

34. 90 - 95 %

[anarch]

36. negative 33%

I reveal sensitive, personally identifiable information about myself, and others.

[femmocrat]

39. Probably 95% but...

I'm not very interesting, so you aren't missing much!

[BlueIris]

40. Somewhere between 50-75%, really, but I clicked 50%.

Contrary to popular belief, there's a lot I won't go into here. Mostly it's about boundaries and respecting the privacy of my friends/family. But also--I don't know. Some of the challenges I'm dealing with (as well as some of the things I've been blessed to have in life) aren't discussed with much enthusiasm on this site. I really wouldn't pick this place to look for support for those challenges, nor would I want to "celebrate" my successes WRT certain things on DU. So there's a whole half of me you'll never know about--bwah ha ha ha ha.

Ha.

:P

[terrya]

41. All of my personal problems.

My life is far from perfect. But I don't want to bring my problems here.

[greatauntoftriplets]

42. Very little....

I certainly do not air any dirty laundry here, especially having seen how that can come back to bite people in the ass when they least want it. And I have never (and never will) posted a photo either of myself or the triplets...no matter how damn cute they are.

[Elidor]

43. Not that much

A little here and there. Mostly I hold back.

[philosophie_en_rose]

44. 98%

Not that I don't trust DUers, but there are too many yahoos out there.

[jonnyblitz]

45. sometimes "others" put your personal information on line for you,

without YOU having a choice, like what has happened to me twice in the last few weeks.

[tinfoil tiaras]

46. I used to put it all out there

--in my 'emo' middle school years, but now i guess i know better than to...

[jpgray]

47. 75%. There are a few close friends here who know more than that, however

I remember being told I must be an aging, pony-tailed hippie in some argument about the dangers of globalization. I like that. :D

[Nicole]

48. Almost 100%

I don't post much personal info at all.

[jane_pippin]

49. Almost all of it. However, I will say

that I'm in frickin love right now, and I say that because I'm in the annoying (to others) "I want to tell everyone about how in love with this person I am" stage.

So now you know that.

Also, I'm hardly around enough to really talk about anything anyway.

[Redstone]

50. Very few people know, and they're not saying.

Redstone

[fortyfeetunder]

51. I am a graduate from the Nunya Dam Business School

So if anyone is at all interested, then maybe they should take a few courses there....

[Wapsie B]

52. I withhold most of what's going on in my life,

I'd say 90% + or more. I've not been that forthcoming about details of my personal history even in real life until I get to know someone well.