Re:Googling Strangers: One Professor's Lesson on Privacy in ...
by sodality2 on Thursday March 11, 2021 @03:21PM
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That sounds very scary- I'm glad he didn't have any overtly malicious reason for it. What did the letter say? Was it a "hi date me" type of thing?
Re:Googling Strangers: One Professor's Lesson on Privacy in ...
by Item_Boring on Thursday March 11, 2021 @03:35PM
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Yeah, me too.
Yes, it was essentially a love letter ending with “please call me“.
I actually did text him - since he included his phone number and I wanted to know who he was - but I “ghosted“ him after some months when he kept asking me to come to his home (he was twentysomething so several years older than me).
Afterward, I received one more postcard from him telling me how much he misses me and how he wished I was there with him (he was travelling at that time) but then it stopped.
Re:Googling Strangers: One Professor's Lesson on Privacy in ...
by sodality2 on Thursday March 11, 2021 @03:59PM
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Wow, that's very weird and very inappropriate of him, hopefully he got in trouble / didn't do that to anyone else. I'd be very anxious if someone had my home address and was harassing me, I'm sorry you had to deal with that.
I was around 16 and used to carry a binder with my full name on its back in my hand because it was a bit too large for my backpack.
One day, I got a letter by a guy whose name I didn’t know. He saw me on the bus and thought I was cute, so he decided to look me up and somehow found out my current address. He couldn’t have used the phone boom because my family wasn’t listed, so he must’ve googled me. Luckily, the guy didn’t have any bad intentions but it was very scary nevertheless.