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Old Feb 12, 2016, 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Gus1234U View Post
thanks , everyone~
i have been logged on as 'invisible', like Yoda , for years. still, at least some people can see when i was last here and what i was doing. if i want someone to know that, i'll PM them .

i wouldn't even be asking, but i see other people who don't have it showing, and i just wondered how they did that.
I've noticed this too.. specifically how it appears to me to operate (though I could be wrong) is that those who have uncustomized profiles as well as a particularly longtime membership in PC, seem to be the only folks where this is the case, which suggested to me that even if I returned all my profile customizations to a default setup, I likely still could not be grandfathered in to whatever earlier default profile seems to have solely allowed for not publicly showing the "you last visited" data.

Again, as this is an assessment made only from my own personal series of observations I certainly might be wrong; I would likewise welcome understanding for sure of what's possible in this regard -- especially since there is no feature to see how one's profile actually appears to others (outside of for the "about me" subsection only), making that a matter entirely of mystery.

I do use the invisibility "cloak", always have; it was one of the first things I looked for in settings here as it's always been my preference on social media not to have my activities be trackable. It's mostly out of consideration for others, that I don't want indications being made that I'm there and perhaps available for immediate communications when it may really not be the case, thus creating the potential for hurt feelings. (Also, I have an inherent aversion to feeling tracked in general... having had the experiences both of being stalked to the extent of legitimately having to fear for my life, and of being kidnapped and held against my will for an unfortunate length of time, I suppose it's a bit of a trigger for me personally.) But, at least as far as I'm able to tell, invisibility doesn't solely define the displaying of the "you last visited" data.
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.
Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
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