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Taken from this article regarding outing fanfic authors to the real world. That was interesting enough, but what really caught my eye was this:

"A note: it is your responsibility to guard your privacy online. Always be sensible, use a handle rather than your real name, don't give away personal details online that you wouldn't feel comfortable shouting in a subway, assume that anything you post will be read by people you do not know even if it's locked, and until proven otherwise, do not dismiss the notion that the person you are talking to is a forty-year-old perv (or possibly an FBI agent)."

Take that all you people, and you know who you are, who've told me that my personal privacy policies are "extreme." It's my life, my identity and my responsibility, and no one else's. If I end up at the bottom of a lagoon somewhere because I agreed to meet up with some psycho, the media, the cops and my mother are going to blame me for being stupid with my info.