Similarly on Reddit (yes, I am one of them...): a lot of users seem to believe that looking at someone's past comments on their userpage is somehow stalking or "creepy". I have literally seen people say "I didn't give you permission to look through my comments history." Perhaps this is all because of Facebook and its sectional privacy settings. Maybe a lot of people who start out on Facebook assume that because there they can publish things that only their close friends or family will see, the same will apply elsewhere.
Today is quote kleinbl00 day for me. In our podcast titled, "Why Should an Honest Person Care About NSA Surveillance," he basically says, "nothing digital is ephemeral," which is absolutely true. It's something I think about more and more as my children age. My digital footprint will likely be available to them and to my grandkids etc. what does this footprint say about me? Is it an accurate representation of me? Thankfully Hubski exists because much of my footprint is here and I'm totally fine with what I've said here. It's my MySpace days that I worry about :) Here's the podcast from which I quoted kb:
Honestly I'm less worried about myself (and a lesser extent my generation), but those that have grown up with Facebook. They're so used to sharing everything I'm afraid they will end up sharing things that will come back to haunt them long into the future.
Sometimes people think you're "creepy" just for making connections and poking around a bit. Like it's a bad thing if you remember something that someone said before, and made a connection between that and a thing they're saying now, and asked them about it, you know? It seems like sometimes people just don't want you to put 2 and 2 together regarding them and it's weird if you do, but if you don't do this kind of thing a little bit, I think it takes away a lot of the fun of talking to people. This sort-of happened recently with someone here, but it wasn't really a big deal, and I'm not talking about them.