Sucks they were able to find you this way. That's why I always use a pseudonym.
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2024
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Yeah ok James
:O
Well, at least you were wanted.
I'm pretty sure they called my cell all week during work hours. Place had horrible reception so if the call came through at all, i couldnt answer cause well, im at work.
But nobody ever left a message so shrug
Luckily I hated everyone in highschool and they never bothered me again once I left. If this has happened to me I'd have laughed in their face.
I've been told by classmates that I am on the "unable to track down" list for my school.
That you have kept in touch means the school didn't try hard... 😂
I have a Google Alert set up, so I get notified in case my name pops up on the web. A month after I joined a new company, I got an alert - turned out that their internal directory page was exposed to the public web. I was pretty livid - all this time I was proud of maintaining good anonymity, looking up my name never returned anything meaningful on Google. So I complained to my boss about this, and he said it was actually a bug/misconfiguration - which they were already aware of, but didn't bother fixing it because no one complained. I was super pissed and made it very clear that it was a violation of my privacy and I wanted it taken down ASAP. Thankfully my boss was understanding and got it fixed. Then I had to report the page to Google. It took a while, but it was finally gone from the search results.
Calm down Dexter. We all know your secret!
To help with this in the future, you can also create several fake results sharing your real name. Stuff like a blogger with one post not in your writing style, etc.. This will dilute searches with disinformation. Removal of real data is important, but you can also confuse anyone looking.
You could use an AI generated fake face and fake history too if your name is unique to make people think they either found the wrong person or make them unsure of the other listings mentioning you with only your name as an identifier
As the Eric Cartman of my school. I will not have this problem.
I was a mix of Kenny and Scott Malkinson
You died every week (from diabetes)?
I don't understand. Are you saying you're a racist, abusive, narcissistic fuckhead? Or that you're fat?
*was
Um, which one?
Yes
Um, why does it matter? He matured and changed. It's a positive attribute, not a negative one.
It doesn’t. Was an attempt at a witty retort.
I see. Textual communication has a pesky habit of not conveying tone unless you intentionally craft it to. It bugs me that there are so many people who negatively judge someone for decades-old attitudes and worldviews, when positive change should be commended.
Not you, since your comment was in jest, but I question the motives of those think that way unironically.
All good.
It seems better than having the FBI track you down (not that they need too as they track all of us all the time)
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