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Public personal dev accounts: opinions? (programming.dev)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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I feel like there are many devs out there who expose a lot of personal details and opinions all over the web. Maybe it's just me, but when starting out with the internet I tried my best to separate my personal details (name, age, sex, country, ethnicity, family ties, relationship status,...) from usernames in public.

Seeing devs do it willingly and voice opinions on divisive or sensitive topics kind of messes with me. Aren't y'all afraid of missing out on job opportunities if someone reads your opinions, code, or other stuff tied to your personal accounts? Or letting anybody (maybe family, friends, acquaintances, ...) in on your personal life, mindset, opinions and other personal information?

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 6 months ago

Those were indeed the reasons I thought people did it. Most other responses here do seem to use multiple identities online, so maybe it's less prevalent amongst programmers. It's possible that most of the public accounts are just those public facing identities, with a chunk of them for the reasons you stated above.

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