HERE’S THE ANSWER
Gleaned from this thread as of 8/18 2:18PM
At least I think this is the answer. Or answers.
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Because when you take the IRL identity stuff out of the process it makes communication smoother.
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Tradition. Yes, we do it this way because it’s the way we’ve been doing it for a long time. Since the birth of Facebook or whatever.
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So crazy people won’t track me down. Which seems crazy. But that’s just the kind half-acknowledged half-conscious consensual fantasy that people seem to buy into. So maybe it’s true.
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It’s better for discussion when everyone’s look, personality, gender, skin, species etc. takes less of a focus. And it takes less effort. Pseudonymous online communities have been the most popular type since the early 90s.
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Good answer!
We dont have to be anonymous here. Go ahead and post your name, address, where you work. Did you just cringe at the thought? Thats why we’re anonymous here.
That’s an evasion.
My name is Yoshikage Kira. I’m 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don’t smoke, but I occasionally drink. I’m in bed by 11 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I’m trying to explain that I’m a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn’t lose to anyone.
Want to have some drinks between 8-11pm?
I cringe at the thought, yes. But that’s because I have angered people here.
So is that it? You want to be anonymous because you have angered people here and fear those people coming after you?
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P. Sherman
42 Wallaby Way.
Sydney.
Because we do not enjoy the invasion on our privacy.
So you’re anonymous because you like being anonymous.
Not OP, but kind of…
It’s a liberating feeling to be a part of a conversation without having to deal with social factors like gender, race, socioeconomic status, etc.
My address is at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, D.C, USA. Come fight be bro. And no, not fist-fight, that shit is boring, we’re doing this the 2nd amendment way.
This is a boundary that I like to have set. There is no actual need for my shitposts and general thoughts be linked to my name. I don’t espouse hate, nor do I try to spread misinformation. That doesn’t mean that I would be fine having anything I’ve ever posted/replied to being easily linked to me.
We’re not; we’re pseudonymous here.
I have a feeling the real answer is “why not?”
That’s evasive.
Can you elaborate on that? I can’t really come up with a good reason why I’d need to know who anyone is here.
Individual data points like “I take pilates”, “I work nights and weekends”, and “I live in Smalltown, ST” might not mean anything on their own, but if you can connect this data to a single person, then realize there’s only one pilates studio in Smalltown, then look up their hours and notice there’s only one day class on weekdays, you can make a reasonable guess as to a regular time when a person is away from home. This is called data brokerage.
This is a comically contrived example; the real danger is in the association of countless data points spread across millions of correlated identities. It’s not just your data, it’s the association of your data with that of your friends and family. Most people are constantly streaming their location, purchases, beliefs, and affiliations out to anyone who cares enough to look. Bad actors may collate their data and use it to take advantage of them, and the only move they have is to ask for prohibitive legislation. As if we don’t already have prohibitive legislation.
Anonymity is expensive, inconvenient, and fragile, but it’s the only mechanism that protects individuals from the information economy, which I would put right next to ecology in terms of critical 21st-22nd century social problems. It also helps us resist censorship, but that’s a different essay.
I mean this username has been in use by me for like 20 years so idk how anonymous it really is. It’s at least not directly tied to my full name though I doubt it would be very hard to find.
Why is this being downvoted? It’s a really good question and one that should be available to everyone if they ever think about it in the future.
OP’s comment replies are also being downvoted even though it drips of genuine curiosity. Why are the Lemmings behaving like Redditors?
That’s evasive
No u
Why do you want to know who I am irl?
I must know if you’re really my uncle who is also a parrot.
I really am, but I have 4 total, 2 macaws and 2 parrotlets!
That’s evasive.
No it isn’t.
but, why do you want to know who I really am?
That’s evasive
Bc ppl black mail you with your personal stuff if you post it
This has never happened to me (when I posted personal stuff). Has it happened to you?
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Leaving aside the fact that we aren’t anonymous, pseudonymous at best, this is essentially my common law name. Back in the day (before everyone got married and/or moved away) you could go into my local and ask for the Emperor and someone would be able to point me out.
To avoid the inflatable neighbor syndrome which is a plague in Facebook and the likes.
Is it so strange to just be a private person? It’s a personal preference, it makes me feel comfortable. There doesn’t have to be a particular reason for it.
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