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[hops]

Somehow, saying sensei noticed you sounds more creepy.

[Orange Wizard]

onii-chan noticed me~

[Rolan7]

Somehow, saying sensei noticed you sounds more creepy.

That's what happened to my WoD character. It was a sneaking mission, and he got noticed. He lost all his blood, but got a sensei.

[hops]

onii-chan noticed me~

ochinchin noticed me~

[Yoink]

An Instagram account for hair loss treatment just started 'following' me.
These motherfuckers have uncovered my darkest fears. They're in my head. Which is slightly less evenly covered than it used to be.
I know not where to turn. My own mind is not safe from the fearsome telepathic powers being used against me. Help.

[Helgoland]

You need to fight fire with fire. Shave yourself bald.

[Rolan7]

You need to fight fire with fire. Shave yourself bald.

Don't even joke D:<

[InZane]

Well, at least I know where this person lives.

?

[GiglameshDespair]

Well, at least I know where this person lives.

?

The old trick where it shows your own profile.
Relax; Cinder isn't quite that much of a creep. 

[SalmonGod]

You need to fight fire with fire. Shave yourself bald.

Don't even joke D:<

Why not?  I don't regret it.  Not sure at this point if I'll ever go back.

[Solifuge]

You need to fight fire with fire. Shave yourself bald.

Don't even joke D:<

Why not?  I don't regret it.  Not sure at this point if I'll ever go back.

Shaving your head is fine, as long as you're cool with it. So is pulling a Patrick Stewart and making a classy bald spot your thing. Dude lost his hair in his 20s, and he owned it. Still, it weirds me out how advertisers can sniff this personal data out, and prey on people's insecurities to sell them something.


Speaking of which... though absolutely terrified is an overstatement, Matt Lees' spot on Behavioral Manipulation in Games got me thinking about gamification and social engineering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGvePm_jVCk

Between gaming and social networks, we're starting to get really good at manipulating human behavior for a desired effect; usually, that means logging in to a game regularly or renewing a subscription to a service. But there's a lot of room to misuse these principals to prey on people, or to manipulate other facets of their behavior to be more in line with something else.

I don't know how much the fuss over Sesame Credit was just scaremongering. Just the idea is scary and plausible, though; a social network that rewarded a specific set of social behaviors, and reduced or took away those rewards if they had friends or family who didn't perform those behaviors. If the rewards were significant enough, you'd easily have people wanting to police their friends and family into model behavior, perhaps even unfriending and shunning them if they fail to reform. It doesn't have to be used for negative ends (it could even benefit society) but it's still investing a lot of power into the hands of the people who decide that set of social behaviors.

So yeah.... I'm sorta thinking that we need to start thinking about legislation to protect citizens against psychologically exploitative games, advertisements, and social networks. It strikes me as a future danger for the health and well-being of society.

[GiglameshDespair]

I think here in the UK legislation has been tightened around in-game purchases aimed at children to basically make it so they can't without parents. But all adverts are kinda psychologically manipulating; the whole point is to get you to buy something.

I see where you're coming from, but I doubt all that much could be done. Maybe just ban them from punishing you for having friends not in the game?

[redwallzyl]

I accidentally ran a red light a few days ago and I'm constantly paranoid that at any minute someone's going to show up and ticket me for some reason.

[Rolan7]

Hahaha oh wow
So my dad was going to be in town all today (3 hours from where he lives, but his girlfriend has legit business).
So I kinda lay in bed under covers with my laptop until 3-ish, then finally got up to get drunk.  At first one beer, then very quickly a lot more.
Basically I entertained the idea of meeting up with him, then decided to watch Archer and enjoy my godsdamn weekend instead.  It's been an exhausting, low-sleep week, and it's probably because I knew he was coming.

Well, I just got a text that they're only just on their way.  I guess I had the day wrong.

She's asking if we can have dinner tonight and maybe go hiking tomorrow, and also mentioned that his birthday is coming up.

Well, I pretty much ensured I can't do the first thing.  So that's good.
Why is it so hard to say no
Hiding and ignoring messages is pretty easy at first, but in the end it feels even shittier.

I'm also terrified that he reads these posts.  It would be really easy for him to locate this account.  I've posted so much that I shouldn't have.

I'm not afraid of any actual abuse or anything, I'm just broken in a way that makes it really tough to see him.
I guess I'll just ignore this text and maybe go walking with them tomorrow.  The tension will be high so they'll snipe each other constantly, it'll be great /s.
Or ideally I can just have lunch with them somewhere.  I *am* still pretty sick, it's not that much to ask.  Pretty normal right?  To just have lunch?

[TheBiggerFish]

That sounds like a nice compromise.