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Re:Bay Area restaurants are vetting your social media before... by dfxm12 on Monday July 14, 2025 @09:31AM (#44560028)
You (the general you) tell the world a lot of things that can be looked up via your email address. Most restaurants take reservations through a system that asks for your email address.

I was at a restaurant a while back and looked over at the hostess' iPad. It had my Twitter avatar on it. I never told them my Twitter handle, but it is associated with the email I used. Do public musings count as telling someone something?

Maybe the next restaurant you (the personal you) go to will look up your email address, find this post and just serve you food.

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Re:Bay Area restaurants are vetting your social media before... by maxerickson on Monday July 14, 2025 @10:36AM (#44560790)
So how do we people that don't like it get the restaurant to recognize that reacting to our Twitter is making the experience worse for us?

The defense is that it's to make the experience better, the reaction is that it won't...

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Re:Bay Area restaurants are vetting your social media before... by dfxm12 on Monday July 14, 2025 @10:56AM (#44560989)
If you don't want restaurants/customer service/other people to read your social media posts, don't post or make your posts private.
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Re:Bay Area restaurants are vetting your social media before... by maxerickson on Monday July 14, 2025 @11:47AM (#44561558)
That's not responsive to my point.

I didn't say I don't want them to read them. I said I don't want them to provide me evidence that they read them.

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Re:Bay Area restaurants are vetting your social media before... by satvikpendem on Monday July 14, 2025 @01:19PM (#44562726)
Pin a tweet to your profile saying you want to be treated as if you are not special. If they read it, then they know how to act, and if they didn't, then they also know nothing about you to treat you special.
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Re:Bay Area restaurants are vetting your social media before... by bapak on Monday July 14, 2025 @09:13PM (#44566942)
I know where you live.

I saw you enter your apartment, it's public information. But I bet you'd feel pretty unsafe hearing that.

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