Privacy and Transparency: Three Kinds of Steemians
In my opinion, there are 3 kinds of Steemians with regard to privacy/transparency. I am speaking of Steemians that blog, not those that just bought STEEM Powers and are waiting for the price of STEEM to be high enough so that they will cash out.
1) Radical Privacy
Those that do not reveal their real name and do not publish any picture of themselves.
2) Standard Privacy
Those the do not reveal their real name, but will show their picture.
3) Radical Transparency
Those that reveal their real name and publish photos of themselves.
I don't think I have ever met any Steemian that reveal their real name, but not their photo. There may be some, but then they are quite rare.
First Category: Radical Privacy
Amongst many others, one Streemian in this category I interact often with is @katharsisdrill.
Publicly, we know a lot of things about @katharsisdrill: his work as a comics creator, part of his recent health problems, where he lives (Copenhagen, Denmark), his 16 years old daughter @scarlet-rain that publishes her drawings, etc ...
But we don't know his real name and I have never seen a picture of @katharsisdrill.
Second Category: Standard Privacy
Here, we can find a good specimen with @papa-pepper:
If you follow @papa-pepper, you have seen zillions of picture of him, of his wife @mama-pepper and of his children @little-peppers.
But, you have not learned his real name.
Third Category: Radical Transparency
There are many examples of Steemians in this category, starting with @ned and @dan.
I am in this category ( @vcelier ).
It is my real name on my main page, and I have no problem showing my face, even four times on my main page!
I am not trying to say that one category is better than the others. Everyone has the right and the freedom to decide what they want to divulge about themselves.
I would welcome comments explaining the category you are in and why you did chose to be there.
-- Vincent Celier
I think there is two reasons that has influenced my choice to use a pseudonym. One is psychological: I am a person that like to keep at least part of my life closed to people outside of my nearest family and often even to them too, with my wife as the only exception. The second has something to do with my career, my view of art and my weariness with social communities in general.
Creating a pseudonym was satisfying in many ways - career-wise because I was able to start all over (career originally meaning a road or a course is demonstrating it quite well - taking a new road), artistically because I could start working in a new category without having to bridge back to my previous works and also because I could move from so called Fine Art to the more humble genres that I view as just as valid artistically. The last has also to do with my weariness with the art world and its boring audience.
All this made a fine harmony with my personality - and a last benefit was that I, like @meesterboom mentions, could invent a new and mysterious name.
I think I am standard privacy. Simple when I join steemit, I did not know what I put myself into.
But I am fine and I enjoy steemit.
bonjour ami est très bon ces classifications, je me considère aussi dans la catégorie de transparence radicale, le nom de mon utilisateur est mon vrai nom karlin et je partage aussi des photos de moi et de ma famille. Je n'ai rien à cacher, hahaha.
I am a firm category number 2 man. It's not even that deliberate, I think because of the hugely public nature of the blockchain I initially joined with my online monicker. Since then I have grown to really enjoy using it!
I remember in the early days of the internet, actually even before now I think of it (gamenames), where we loved finding these aliases. All my friends and me and my brothers had several of them. It was very fascinating for us to create these mystical names.
Totally! We did a lot of role playing back in the day and when online stuff started happening took great pleasure in coming up with cool ( or so we thought) usernames
On some sites it is still almost mandatory to do the name game if you're going to join the fun. (tumblr, imgr)
It is a good game!
Number 2! Number 2!
Number 2! Number 2!
Interesting post, and question. I am a category in and of myself - my name is on my URL posted on my bloghead and if you were really interested you could click that link and find a pic of me on my site.
Personally, I enjoy a level of anonymity... which, if we were f2f eye2eye and heart2heart, I could portray through body language. ON social media however I want to talk about whatever I want to talk about without feeling personally attacked, as much as possible...which sometimes I can't avoid because I am a visionary and talk about highly controversial and confrontive topics.
Thanks for your interesting post! I am definitely a Standard Privacy kind of gal. I think (just a thought) that due to my age (30... some like to group me in with all those millennials, but I disagree), I grew up in the sensitive rapid growth of AOL/online chat and the revolution of social media. I am also a female, so safety precautions were driven into me by my parents in their efforts to help me become someone who is aware of my surroundings. I don’t mind photos, but it is rare for me to completely divulge information such as my name, or where I live, or even photos of my kids, mostly due to the crazy world we live in these days and how quickly dangerous it can become. I absolutely appreciate those from all three categories!
I fall into the last category - people know my name, my face, how old I am, where I live... I have also posted photos of my apartment - that's the way I am. I blog about beer, photography, and philosophy, and I believe that being transparent makes for more engaging posts.
That said, I have nothing against people that want to keep their privacy :)
A beer-loving photographer who occasionally ponders the meaning of existence...Hooked & following based on that :)
Haha, I hope you'll like my beer reviews and other posts :) Thank you!
I think you are right that people will be more engaged in posts that are personal. Before any topic people in general are interested in other people. (Some nerdy types of course exempted)
i would say am among the standard privacy just like @papa-pepper
my pic is all over my blog but you cant find my real name
YOU ARE RADICAL!
All scorpions and snakes if I remember right! LOL!
I don't know what that means but it made me randomly laugh this morning :)
I'm in the third category because I like to show some parts of my life, I post about me, my pets, my boyfriend, and I will continue doing it :).
I like transparency and I think is more interesting like that for others and me :).