Fandom Discussion -- Online Safety
Nov. 28th, 2004 02:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
themostepotenteThis is going to be radically different, I think, from anything I post here.
Some of you may have noticed I have a stalker. This clown I don't perceive as a threat, but there are a lot of scary people out there that would take sending an IM a step further.
Nobody should have to live in fear. Nobody should have to feel like they need to keep their identity hidden to feel safe. It should be a choice 'not' a requirement.
This isn't just about fandom, folks -- this is about keeping safe, so I'm opening up a discussion and encouraging those in fandom to speak up or out, whichever :-)
How much information about yourself is too much to share? When is it okay to trust?
If you have any advice about keeping safe, please come and share it.
If you have a story to tell about being stalked, please, come and share that too.
The holidays are upon us, and some people are especially vulnerable this time of year. And yeah, I know this kinda sounds like a public service announcement, but somebody's advice might save another's life.
Thank you,
--Penny
Some of you may have noticed I have a stalker. This clown I don't perceive as a threat, but there are a lot of scary people out there that would take sending an IM a step further.
Nobody should have to live in fear. Nobody should have to feel like they need to keep their identity hidden to feel safe. It should be a choice 'not' a requirement.
This isn't just about fandom, folks -- this is about keeping safe, so I'm opening up a discussion and encouraging those in fandom to speak up or out, whichever :-)
How much information about yourself is too much to share? When is it okay to trust?
If you have any advice about keeping safe, please come and share it.
If you have a story to tell about being stalked, please, come and share that too.
The holidays are upon us, and some people are especially vulnerable this time of year. And yeah, I know this kinda sounds like a public service announcement, but somebody's advice might save another's life.
Thank you,
--Penny
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Date: 2004-11-30 10:56 am (UTC)I never had stalking experiences per se, onl ya pocket journal with nonsense doing serial friending (I've seen their username in several other friends-of lists and it makes me wonder why it's not possible to remove people from there) adn arelationshp that started iwth trust where I even borrowed him my laptop and ended in hell after wich I found my favourites ful of porn links and all kinds of dial-up nonsense that'd be launched when I started my computer. I dont' worry about him going after me because he's most likely slid of in a world of drugs ad has always been miles away from something as sociable as lj ora fandom like HP.
There's one more advice I'd like to give. Actually two .y oucan
choose on lj to have ip's logged. and you can choose to
screen comments and even to disallow anonymous comments. I did tht latter thing after a random post from me got an anonymous spam about The Passion Of te Christ.