(21 Sep 2019, 10:27 pm)Andreos1 wrote

All of these public profiles that people have, selfies, links to fb/twitter, self promotion and Flickr accounts with the exif data it shares... It has got to carry risks.

Hence the (relative) anonymity I try to maintain.

I don't want waifs and strays following my every move.

I'm not saying people can't share this info, but there needs to be some appreciation that it may come back to haunt some.

I remember commenting on David Horne's use of twitter on the forum and wondering if Martijn Gilbert would come to regret it as he started working for a company with a bigger fanbase. Whilst I am sure both David and Martijns use of twitter achieves positive things, there must be negative.

Stewart Donald at Sunderland must regret the day he used his social media in the way he did when he first arrived.

I remember going to a meeting at East Coast House in York a year or two back and DH was the person to have signed in, in front of me.

Imagine if I was a 'social media weirdo'?!

Owt could have been said or done!

I honestly don't get why people get obsessed with 'famous' people, at the end of the day they're just people. There's nowt special about them.

I prefer to try and be as 'anonymous' as possible online, I see no reason for people to know my real name, what I look like or where I live when all we're doing is chatting shite about what bus is on the 21 today, or how much I dislike the location of the white stripe on the new X30 livery.

But then again, if you looked through all my posts on here, you can probably work out near enough where I live by what buses I say I use and what areas I complain about the GNE app not working in. Heck, I've probably given enough detail in my posts to identify me if you were to see me on the bus that I say I travel on (and no, that's not a challenge!)

It's like I find it strange that some people I know will burn any letter with their name and address on instead of throwing it out, but then post pictures of their house, their car, their kids in their school uniform on Instagram for the whole world to see.

As for what you said about regretting posting on social media, I'm sick and tired of seeing people apologising for things they posted on Twitter 10 years ago.

If I posted something racist on Twitter back then, chances are I still believe it now, why pretend that I've 'changed' and 'see things differently now'.

There are 2 kinds of people in this world, people who do bad things, and people who pretend they don't do bad things.