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Re:Googling Strangers: One Professor's Lesson on Privacy in ... by sodality2 on Thursday March 11, 2021 @03:21PM (#26428552)
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 (#26428701)
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 (#26428940)
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.