Technological advancement.
General awareness.
Timing.
I don't think basic layered security should bother anyone but I think
plausibility is more important than possibility. You can end up tying your hands and be starving socially, emotionally, and physically if you focus on what is possible.
Another element is that it may not even be possible for you specifically. How do you know? If it's happened to someone you know then I think that's more relevant data but something you read on the internet that happened to one person at one time? Probably not useful.
I'm pretty aware of what is possible and at least one poster has mentioned some of the more extreme possibilities...some of them aren't able to countered outside total disconnection (if at all).
Life itself can be pretty dangerous, we are mortal after all...
There does come a point though where we have to leave the details and the dangers up to the Lord...not "putting him to the test" but truly, we have some pretty solid limitations. If you get feedback from friends and family and even church members or (CC) and
still that doesn't answer it maybe it's time to just pray about it. Consider the plausible risks, counter what you are able to, and move into the unknown?
All of this has taken a lot of time walking with the Lord to figure out...I think I've definitely been a bit "too cautious" and missed out on things. The risk with personal relationship is real but do I trust the Lord within it?
Personally I think what I post is personal information. It says a lot more about who I am than my name and physical address. I'd like to do an experiment where I record a soundbite of one of my posts and just see what people think of it...I think people are getting a 24ct crayola crayon version of me on CC vs the 64ct crayon "IRL" version but I do think I echo myself genuinely. In text I'm a bit more aloof and also, this is public.
Certainly not my preferred medium. There's a lot to say though and while I could talk about it for an hour and some people don't mind listening, reading can get quite taxing.
Now I'm psychoanalyzing text vs speech and want to talk for a while about it so I digress.
Also, thanks for posting this thread
@seoulsearch it caused a fair bit of other "hang ups" to surface that are decent thread ideas and while I doubt that was your intention it's still cool