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Old Oct 31, 2014, 10:36 PM
hamster-bamster hamster-bamster is offline
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Location: Northern California
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I am sorry - my eyes really cannot read unformatted text. I cannot help it. But I see that you wrote about privacy a lot. And then I noticed your location and got curious, since I did not know the name of your town, even though I have been to NJ, so my guess was that the town was small. I looked it up in Wikipedia and am pasting from there:

"Moonachie is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, in the Hackensack River watershed. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 2,708, reflecting a decline of 46 from the 2,754 "

So you are basically living in a village with an unusual, catchy, easily identifiable name.

Why did you choose to tell us the name of the borough (township)? Why did you not just put "NJ" or even "East Coast"? You have full control over the information you post on here, and it was your choice to disclose far more than was reasonable. So it seems to me that you make choices to divulge private data without any need to do so, and yet you DEMAND privacy from others? How about focusing on being cautious about your web disclosures instead?

I cannot believe that it was simply a slip, either - it takes effort to type up the name of your township, as it is long and unusual. So there was a choice that you made, intentionally.

As my post count shows, I have read enough messages on this site (obviously, most posts are in response to another post), and, I am detail-oriented to a fault; that means that I notice people's locations - I cannot help noticing such info.

So I can tell you with confidence that it is extremely unusual for a user on this forum to disclose location information with that level of precision. Extremely unusual.

What this tells me that on the one hand, you choose not to take reasonable precautions that pretty much everybody else is taking, and yet, claim your privacy in settings in which other people make compromises. This is sort of backwards - it should be the other way around. Don't you think so?

I would be more than happy to read in detail if you can format the text.

Let me point out to you that nobody on your thread discloses this much about location.

Perna: state only
Christina: state only
me: part of the state
Zwangsstörung: country

And, this level of precision is appropriate: since UK is relatively small, Zwangsstörung puts UK and not a town in it. US states are big enough, so Perna and Christina put their states. California has a huge population, so I put one of the two major parts of the state. (everybody, I hope you do not mind my analyzing your choices)

I think it might be helpful for you to review your reasoning when you signed up as a member of this site and chose to disclose your location, and from there, analyze whether that choice was rational. If it was not rational, what was behind the error in judgment? Were you in a vulnerable emotional state at that time? Were you, subconsciously perhaps, trying to connect with people on the forum and for that reason revealed almost an intimate detail about yourself? What was going on? Hopefully the insight can guide you in figuring out why you feel and think the way you do.
Hugs from:
Lemon Curd
Thanks for this!
Lemon Curd, ~Christina