Posted by mair on August 9, 2004, at 7:52:56
In reply to Re: What's in a Name? » mair, posted by JenStar on August 8, 2004, at 22:45:16
Jen
I think what might have sparked my paranoia was an incident with a poster a few years ago. A friend of her husband's was also on this site (as a poster or voyeur, I don't know) and figured out that she was also here under a posting name which was sufficiently identifiable. He not only told her husband about this site, but he also reported to her husband some of what she was writing about her marriage.
I can't stand the thought of someone who knows me reading what I post here. At least half of the attraction of posting here is that it's not being read by people I know. I don't think I could ever print some of my posts and take them into my therapy session so my T could read them. Bob asked once whether how we would feel if out Ts came onto the site - The thought horrifies me.
I don't know why being found out bothers me so much. I think the person I am here is pretty much the same as the person I am in non-cyber encounters - I can just be alot more open and revealing here. It may not be so much a privacy issue as it is that I seem to have a great desire sometimes to be invisible, or at least largely unnoticed.
Mair
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