few people will see what you post online at all, even when it’s public
Few people will see it out of the blue, but it’s now archived and searchable. Anyone who has your name and is for other reasons determined to find dirt on you, can. I’ve had this happen to me once in a rather minor way (person who had beef with me exposing a scam online who tried to turn the scam’s believers against me by publicly sharing my work place and address) that didn’t really catch, but others haven’t been so lucky. And now you have to add to all that the possibility of someone simply letting an AI agent freely trawl through the internet with the goal of digging up info on you. Like, how far do you expect we are from employers using something like that for “background checks” on applicants?
I definitely think the risks can outweigh the benefits, depending on what it is that you would share. This is absolutely the biggest thing that (reasonably) holds people back.
Few people will see it out of the blue, but it’s now archived and searchable. Anyone who has your name and is for other reasons determined to find dirt on you, can. I’ve had this happen to me once in a rather minor way (person who had beef with me exposing a scam online who tried to turn the scam’s believers against me by publicly sharing my work place and address) that didn’t really catch, but others haven’t been so lucky. And now you have to add to all that the possibility of someone simply letting an AI agent freely trawl through the internet with the goal of digging up info on you. Like, how far do you expect we are from employers using something like that for “background checks” on applicants?
I definitely think the risks can outweigh the benefits, depending on what it is that you would share. This is absolutely the biggest thing that (reasonably) holds people back.