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.
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
Meh. My real world would know what my digital world already knows, that I’m much more of a nerd than I portray myself as.
It’s not because I purposefully hide it. It’s because it’s not a topic that is interesting to anyone in my real world circle of friends. I don’t have real world friends who want to talk about Linux, and Open Source, and retro-video games, and all of the other stuff that I ramble on about online in forums where the peeps who understand me all hang out.
There’s probably some very surprising porn habits in there as well that my real world friends and family would have NO CLUE about, but c’est la vie.
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.
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.
…and the evil rowboat
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.
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’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.
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
Depends on the statute of limitations on drug trafficking I guess.
I stand behind everything I’ve ever said. I’ve been posting for years with the mindset that what OP is describing will some day be reality. I might not be correct about everything but I’ve always been honest. I look forward to that day and all the hypocrites being exposed.
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’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 ?!
