How anonimous are you?

[rvtr]

It's funny. You can pretty easily find all my accounts, my name (both legal and chosen), my city, even photos of me in front of well known places in the city, but you'll have a really hard time finding anything beyond that. I can't even find my info! Or info for my parents!

I think the quickest way to try and doxx me is to go to one of my accounts (not saying what one), search through who I'm following, find my dad (same last name), search him up, find out where he used to live, search his name on facebook with that location, hope to god you find his account with 0 posts and no SEO (keep in mind there are a ton of people with his name on there), maaaybe find my mom's account in his followings, then hope that you can possibly find something there. If not then search her name and you might or might not get something from one of those shady information sites.

At this point I'm not sure how much I even care about the information I put out there. You can't find me! I can't find me! City names only matter so much when there are multiple people with the same name in that city, all of whom flood any search results. Also good luck finding any of us in the white pages.

 

[Minox]

I'm probably not that anonymous once it comes down to it, but I also doubt anyone would really care too much about me to actually bother tracking down what actually exists out there.

 

[Jayro]

Google my internet name "Jayro Jones", and I'm everywhere. Google my government-given name... And I'm a ghost. I learned at an early age to never use your real name online.

So I just use an Alias, like celebrities do.

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

Not at all really. I have zero hesitation using my real name of mentioning the general area I live online. I'm a very social person online. Now on major forums I'd maybe be a little bit more hesitant but on Discord I definitely don't hesitate much. People refer to me by my real name and it's just standard for me.

 

[JustABadger]

People think that they’re fine because oh look, I just post in a gaming website and maybe have a harmless Twitter account where I talk about my hobbies. So I’ll be fine, right?

All it takes is:

- a criminal
- someone feeling like you did something wrong

You posted a brand new and expensive car in this forum? That’s cool, means you’re rich. Oh look, your Facebook page. I see your mom’s profile page. And now I have her phone number. “Hello mom? It’s me! I’ve been arrested! Please send me money so I can deal with this!”

Or I learn that you have other expensive stuff. So I’m going to closely monitor your posts until the day comes until I’m 100% certain you’re not home and I’m going to steal your shit. Or sell this information to someone who lives in your same state. And there are people who would pay a lot for that kind of information.

Hell, maybe you don’t flaunt your wealth and you manage to keep your family out of anything. Maybe you post responsibly. Maybe one day you’re walking on the sidewalk and suddenly a wild bullet hits you. The criminal is a (INSERT POLITICAL CANDIDATE) supporter. While you’re at the hospital fighting for your life, the media and the internet collectively joined to scan anything you ever posted online to find out anything bad that you could have said and make you part of the side they hate. Oh, you called someone a r***rd in 2015? Well then you definitely deserved to get shot. Your mom is a whore and she’s getting phone calls every minute. Your dad is a bastard and should have abandoned you. All of their employers have been notified about your unruly behaviour and they will bend over to the internet.

The possibilities are endless, but they all end up the same way: you get fucked.

Privacy is important.

Google my internet name "Jayro Jones", and I'm everywhere. Google my government-given name... And I'm a ghost. I learned at an early age to never use your real name online.

So I just use an Alias, like celebrities do.

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Took me less than a minute to find your real name. ¿Como estas?

 

[The_Dizzy_Vizzy]

So, coming from a POV of someone who's never really been anonimous on the internet, I've been thinking about this topic for a long time now, especially because I worry about how this could potentially affect my life if someone were to get a grudge or something and start snooping around. Most people know my full name, my usernames which are tied to it, then you can easily find my Reddit account with 3 years of posts on it from which you could probably get a large chunk of my life story out of, ETC.
What about you. What's your level of anonimity. Do you have different usernames for each account you create? Do you reveal your real name and / or age? I'm just curious if I'm the only person on the internet who's this open lol. If you weren't previously anonimous but now are, what would be your tips for making my real identity slightly more obfiscated now that it's out there?
To be fair I usually post stuff I find OK to post but the paranoya still gets me sometimes and I do have the occasional what ifs.

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What do you mean? If I misspelled something do let me know, I'm blind and mostly learned how to spell in English by listening to it for years using a Polish synthesizer and there's mistakes I've been making for a really long time before people pointed them out to me and I corrected them.

Your English is fine. That's very impressive to learn it like that, and pardon me for the .gif...

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Then how did you reply to me?

Dude, he's using a Ouija Board to do all the talking...

 

[Lostbhoy]

I don't even know I am.

 

[Marc_LFD]

I don't use my real name nor show a photo of myself, so I'd say mostly.

Am online dating a girl which we've been talking for a few months now, share photos, audio recordings, and videos (more life-like than photos) and I searched her on the internet if she was anywhere at all, nope. If I'd search for photos of myself I'd not find it either.

In Jan-Feb 2025 we'll meet in person. I stopped using curse words (it was generally on internet comments than real life), began going to church for real, read the Bible, and eventually marry her if all goes well. It's what I want, have a family of my own because sure as heck I don't want to reach 40 and be single and childless (no offense to anyone of course).

Anyway, you may ask what search engine I used, it was PimEyes, from personal experience PE is more accurate in finding results than Google and whatever.

 

[Robert Newbie]

I was waiting for the series finale to admit this, but

Robert Newbie isn't my real name.

I know this is a serious topic, but I like to lighten the mood for these kinds of things

 

[Alexander_86]

i dont' have social networks

 

[ChronoCrossfangirl2002]

I always give people the name "Lie-en" or "Lynette" as my name online, it's not my real name, and i never show my face,
one thing I've been told is I'm very good at reading people I often do that to stay safe on the internet and keep myself out
away from people who i know will drag negative attention to me and others, I have a youtube that's linked in my profile and
once it hits a big number i intend to delete it, i don't wanna be big, famous, whatever i will remain small on the internet and leave that way the only thing that may have tainted my anon status is the fact that i was once in a commercial when i was younger and that's pretty much it

 

[Jayro]

I always give people the name "Lie-en" or "Lynette" as my name online, it's not my real name, and i never show my face,
one thing I've been told is I'm very good at reading people I often do that to stay safe on the internet and keep myself out
away from people who i know will drag negative attention to me and others, I have a youtube that's linked in my profile and
once it hits a big number i intend to delete it, i don't wanna be big, famous, whatever i will remain small on the internet and leave that way the only thing that may have tainted my anon status is the fact that i was once in a commercial when i was younger and that's pretty much it

I'm the same way, If anyone googles my legal name they won't find jack shit for me except for old utility bills of places I used to live.

 

[ChronoCrossfangirl2002]

I'm the same way, If anyone googles my legal name they won't find jack shit for me except for old utility bills of places I used to live.

i believe my legal name is on google but what's funny is that kinda doesn't matter as even irl i'm not referred to my legal name only in rare cases like appointments and stuff so it's why i never really worry if someone does find it.

edit nvm: it's not out there lmao just a linked in from a place i don't even live anymore and a very old youtube channel that has cringey undertale music probably from when i was in middle school

 

[kijetesantakalu042]

8/10 anonymous. Nothing that could link to the real me except for initials.

 

[Dust2dust]

The less info there is about me online, the better I feel. I'm not on any social network (the only place I post messages for other to read is GBAtemp). If I register to something online, I always use a different ID/password. So Dust2dust exists only here. Every once in a while, I try googling my real name and find nothing, so all is good.

Google my government-given name...

Do you mean the government chose your real name, and not your parents?

 

[ZeroFX]

i have a username for each website, some usernames i use more than once but most are exclusive of a website.

 

[Jayro]

The less info there is about me online, the better I feel. I'm not on any social network (the only place I post messages for other to read is GBAtemp). If I register to something online, I always use a different ID/password. So Dust2dust exists only here. Every once in a while, I try googling my real name and find nothing, so all is good.


Do you mean the government chose your real name, and not your parents?

No, I mean it's the name I have to use on any government paperwork.

 

[kijetesantakalu042]

Even if you had my name, you'd find some other guy if you googled me

 

[Vetusomaru]

I'm so anonymous that even when I first opened a Facebook account I used a nickname and a cartoon avatar instead of using my real name and showing my face. The only private info at my Facebook profile was my birthday so people would wish me happy birthday at my birthday. Also every time I meet some questionable discord servers that require my ID or showing my face to give me access to their server I tell them to fuck off and l leave.

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i dont' have social networks

Based

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Not at all really. I have zero hesitation using my real name of mentioning the general area I live online. I'm a very social person online. Now on major forums I'd maybe be a little bit more hesitant but on Discord I definitely don't hesitate much. People refer to me by my real name and it's just standard for me.

Sharing your private info online with strangers doesn't makes you social. It makes you naive.

 

[Hanafuda]

Then how are you here?

Schrodinger's hippy dave.