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So privacy is either impossible or mandatory? The slopes sure are slippery around here. I shouldn't have worn my dress shoes.
by iron_ball 15y ago
So privacy is either impossible or mandatory? The slopes sure are slippery around here. I shouldn't have worn my dress shoes.
- Duff 15y agoNot at all. I just don't think that hiding gender is meaningful beyond making some people feel good. It's a false set of security -- gender and identity are linked. It's a social networking application. Knowing what people put on social networking sites, my guess is that if you couldn't see someone's name/alias or gender, you could identify the gender of a user with a reasonable degree of confidence. The predators (rapists, stalkers, etc) are highly attuned and skilled at identifying victims. If a woman (or man) is actually awware of a specific risk of a stalker getting info about them from a social networking site, she/he shouldn't have a public profile, period. Hiding gender in that case could create a dangerous, false sense of security.
- Daniel_Newby 15y ago"The predators (rapists, stalkers, etc) are highly attuned and skilled at identifying WILLING victims." There, fixed that for you. "Hiding gender in that case could create a dangerous, false sense of security." It's even worse. Exploiters and stalkers build a relationship with a delusion. Maintaining ongoing contact using a mystery persona gives their imagination free rein, ungrounded by contact with reality, building up a fantasy relationship that does not exist. The solution is to use your real persona, and end all contact the moment you start getting creepy vibes.
- redrobot5050 15y agoPrivacy exists. Just not on social networks where you share personal informational with the network provider.