A case in point: You apply for a job with fairly conventional non-profit that does good work but doesn't think outside of the box. They are very impressed with your accomplishments, so, since they are office workers and have nothing else to do, they pound your name into google to see if they can see picture of you doing the stuff you do so well. Completely unexpectedly, they discover that you stuff poop into cow horns, believe in astrology, hate Monsanto and question the policies of the elected government. (And, in my case, forward pornography and use Anglo-Saxon phrases quite often)

Being a farmer is questionable enough these days. (Please note the FBI post I put up here a couple of days ago.) MANY people I talk to at conferences have told me that they do not want to associate their names with their ideas in such a public place.

This is a different form of self-protection than what you fear is undoable. We can buffer ourselves in this fashion.

My primary goal is to make people comfortable to share their experiences and feelings with each other.

-Allan


I'm not sure of the difference between "member oriented" and "public" archive. Would this require registration/password or a membership fee?

How do we protect ourselves from all this anyways, unless you're going to totally subvert your personality i.e. never say what you think, don't buy any books or magazines or use websites that aren't govt. approved and for heaven's sake, don't go to a peace rally, they're filming you. (I actually got videotaped at a pitiful little fishermen's rights "protest" - they were ten of us, including my dog.)

Some posting reticence may come from lack of BD experience. And I guess some of us are questioners and some are sponges.

Nancy G.


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