Should I get the hell out of all public content and disconnect my internet connection?
This seems to me the only safe--to a degree--thing to do.
Of course that would entail buying envelopes and stamps if I want to continue corresponding with anyone. Seems rather extreme.
Or should I try to contact this person to try to talk some reason into him?
Maybe I should just cancel my follow and hope he takes the hint and does the same.
And what is the protocol when a stranger follows you? Electronic cards on major holidays? Thanks for following me notes on birthdays? Someone needs to write an a new Emily Post etiquette type book for this stuff. Not just what initials stand for and that all caps is shouting.
And what is the protocol when a stranger follows you? Electronic cards on major holidays? Thanks for following me notes on birthdays? Someone needs to write an a new Emily Post etiquette type book for this stuff. Not just what initials stand for and that all caps is shouting.
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Ahh, the In'ernet!
I wunce had an account at AriannaOnLine...
Scratch that. I had an account with the Huffington Post. I cancelled right about when the AOL sale went through, making them what I call AriannaOnLine. I'd already had my issues and only liked it for a few of the bloggers there. Now, these last couple of years, it has gotten so monstrous, it is impossible to get an overview. There's just too much content. Kind o like the rest of the for profit media (not to mention that they don't pay most of their contributors, "opportunity and exposure", and their awareness of the deal going in justifying the arrangement (of course, as a budding writer or journalist - especially a young one - you don't really know what the result of your providing effort to someone else's bottom line in the hopes of being discovered really means until you realize you're at a place where you'll work for anyone for free, or just outright quit in bitter disgust) I digress...)
Curious, I surfed on over to see what "follow" might mean, in your case. The only Follow I could find was via the Twit. The VisageBible interFace only had a "like".
How, or through what, is this poster following you? Or, what exactly is this poster following? What did you follow and what does that mean?
Anticipating all the answers to these questions, my assessment is that it is not creepy at all, or no creepier than you speaking to someone on the street and their speaking back. Except that maybe they are standing on the street below watching you turn your lights on and off - assuming you have your lights set to "allow my followers to see when I turn my lights on and off".
So it really depends. The VisageBible has enabled the integration of all of our online communication - hence the fact that my not being a member means that I am shut out, and have no earthly idea the extent to which all of my loved ones do their communicating therein.
Now, there is the FOLLOWERS in the right column of this Google Powered thing here. Don't get me started with Google Plus, I have no idea. But given that the only members I see in that section are the usual suspects, I assume that isn't the interface you two lovebirds followed each other on.
Am I isn't or ain't I didn't?
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