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In my last (friend-locked) post, I commented
A couple of weeks back, I entered a review for a friend's book on Amazon. I very much enjoyed the book, and wanted to make that official by promoting it on Amazon, even though I had already done so on LiveJournal.
A few hours later, I got a friend request on Twitter from someone I didn't know. I looked at his bio, and it turns out he's the publisher who published my friend's novel.
He sent me a 'thank you' for the glowing review. I shrugged and went on about my day.
Not until later did it occur to me that that was a bit unusual. He took my name on Amazon and tracked me down on Twitter. I use my real name on the various places where I have public accounts: LinkedIn, Amazon, Twitter, MeetUp, Facebook, Blogspot, LiveJournal...all of them either have my real name or some variant of "kaasirpent" (KaaSerpent, Kaa, Kaa Serpent, Serpent, etc.). Or both. And at no point do I ever explicitly tie Amazon to Twitter.
So while it's not difficult to have tracked me down, I find it kind of creepy that he did. :)
It is also friend-locked on the chance that someone could trace me from LinkedIn to Twitter or Facebook and from there find this blog.If that sounded cryptic, it was intended to. :)
A couple of weeks back, I entered a review for a friend's book on Amazon. I very much enjoyed the book, and wanted to make that official by promoting it on Amazon, even though I had already done so on LiveJournal.
A few hours later, I got a friend request on Twitter from someone I didn't know. I looked at his bio, and it turns out he's the publisher who published my friend's novel.
He sent me a 'thank you' for the glowing review. I shrugged and went on about my day.
Not until later did it occur to me that that was a bit unusual. He took my name on Amazon and tracked me down on Twitter. I use my real name on the various places where I have public accounts: LinkedIn, Amazon, Twitter, MeetUp, Facebook, Blogspot, LiveJournal...all of them either have my real name or some variant of "kaasirpent" (KaaSerpent, Kaa, Kaa Serpent, Serpent, etc.). Or both. And at no point do I ever explicitly tie Amazon to Twitter.
So while it's not difficult to have tracked me down, I find it kind of creepy that he did. :)
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I followed him back. I'd talked to him before on Second Life a while back (under yet another pseudonym which he would have had no way to associate with my real name) because he is/was also the publisher for David Boop, who is another author I follow. And I appreciated that he took the time to personally thank me for a review. That's the kind of thing that sticks in your mind.
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I'm not on any other social medium (except LinkedIn), and I'm careful to avoid personal information (though not fanatical), and a guy from a long-ago BBS found me. I was just as happy, because I regretted losing contact with him, but I still don't know how he did it.
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