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I hold on to my anonymity, like balloon with a string attach to a brick

You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire.


See that helium balloon on a string. It's bright, buoyant, and impossible to ignore; once released, it drifts higher, visible to everyone, yet beyond the holder’s control.

Losing my anonymity works the same way. The moment I step into the spotlight, my privacy lifts out of reach and I becomes a spectacle.

The string of the ballon suggests a trace of connection to a normal life, but it is only a reminder of what can no longer be grasped.

Tge visibility brings attention; attention invites interpretation; interpretation becomes copy.

People have shape my story in the clever turn of a headline, the wink of a gossip item, the quick jab of a column, because the public self has become communal property.
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MyNameIsHurl · 41-45, F
How do you go through life anonymously?
HumanEarth · F
By taking out Google and Facebook 🤣🤣🤣🤣
MyNameIsHurl · 41-45, F
@HumanEarth I mean real life- offline
HumanEarth · F
I guess you can't anymore. Truly to fully do it. You would have to live off the land and live wild.

Government would call you a squatter or homeless. Because there no place in the world where no one can truly live like that if they wanted to for years.

Unless its some remote island or something, then maybe
MyNameIsHurl · 41-45, F
@HumanEarth maybe beyond the ice wall
HumanEarth · F
But would you want to live in winter everyday for years
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HumanEarth · F
Like could you handle not having a cellphone, no e-mail, no bank accounts, no credit credit cards in your name for decades. I mean nothing
MyNameIsHurl · 41-45, F
@HumanEarth naw, I freak out if accidentally leave my phone home while going to the store, I'm indoctrinated
HumanEarth · F
Like search your own very name on the internet and people can find you.

Even a kids can be searched for online
HumanEarth · F
And see I hate that anyone can search my name and find out anything they want about me and most of it for free.

Now that's scary to me