> Why should I find you repulsive?

Me googling your shit might lead to your real name, your family photos etc

Just because it's all public doesn't mean you want the cashier from the supermarket following you around to your family picnic

or just because you like to let the sunlight in doesn't mean you want random pedestrians peering in through your windows..

I can't believe this needs to be spelled out here: "Public" life is compartmentalized.

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Permit an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> Just because it's all public doesn't mean you want the cashier from the supermarket following you around to your family picnic.

This has never happened to me. Out of the space of “bad things that can happen to me” I don’t have time to worry about things with such a small probability of occurring.

	▲	exe34 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I think if you're a fat middle aged man, it's not likely to happen to you personally. But you must have daughters, nieces, a mother, or some sort of female presence in your life. It happens to people like them.

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satvikpendem 36 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Don't put on the Internet what you don't want found as it's always and forever public, I thought everyone knew the first rule.

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Razengan 22 minutes ago | parent [-]

Oh boy. It's NOT about whether something's "public" or not:

It's about someone "connecting the dots" between ALL your public activities.

Someone following you OUTSIDE their "space" that you visited and then invading your other spaces.

People don't usually want to mix their social circles. e.g. nobody likes a snoopy overprotective parent following their [teen] kids around wherever the children go with their friends.

Nobody likes their spouse coming uninvited on a night out with the guys/gals.

Or, when you reply to someone on HN or Reddit, and they don't like what you say about 1 specific topic, then they go and downvote ALL your comments about everything else you said!

That's perfectly legal. It's allowed. Nothing's stopping it. And hey, you commented publicly so you were "asking for it", right?

BUT IT'S A FUCKING DICK MOVE

	▲	satvikpendem 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Someone would only be able to connect the dots based on what you publicly put out there. If you don't put anything out, there's nothing to connect the dots, unless you buy some sort of dark web leaked dataset. None of your analogies are comparable to online public information because you decide what to put out online, and I never said anything about legality so not sure why you bring that up.