Would you want your posts here to be read, ten years later, in the newspaper?

I don’t think posting my name would have an impact. Anyone who actually knows who I am knows already how I think.
You have inspired me with this question to post another angle on fluther in public.

First, in ten years there will be no newspapers…lol

Secondly, I wouldn’t appreciate it but I wouldn’t care much. We speak our minds on a Q&A with the promise of anonymity in exchange for honesty (imo), so that would be a breach in jellies trust.

@Patty_Melt &
@KNOWITALL—I was thinking more along the lines of vitriolic statements (if you’ve ever posted like that) and the like in any well read published media.

I wouldn’t like it.

If my friends had their stuff in the papers and we could all learn about each other, or all be horrified at each others’ secrets being out, then maybe. However, if it were just mine and nobody else’s, then no thank you.

@jca2 – Lol!
Kind of like the whole mind reading thing.Would you do it if you could?
On sites like this, people have posted some inflammatory things and it makes me wonder.
That’s all fine & well to have opinions but just how public would one like them to be?
and last but not least, is your mother proud?? Lmao!

Do you mean would I like to read minds, @lucillelucillelucille?

@jca2 – I was just musing but sure,you are welcome to answer.

I don’t know, @lucillelucillelucille, because if people I liked thought negative thoughts about me, I wouldn’t want to know.

@jca2- Well, there is that,,,but might be interesting to do for a day.When I was dating, that would’ve come in handy.

Yes, I could see that would be handy for dating.

@jca2 -and ID-ing sociopaths without all the work usually required. Lol!

If it’s someone who knows me (who reads it in the newspaper), they know that I am consistent in what I say in real life, and what I say here. So no worries there.

If someone who I don’t know reads it, who gives a shit?

@elbanditoroso -One might give a shit if this person wants to do harm.

@lucillelucillelucille I have no intention of hiding my thoughts in the unlikely possibility someone might want to do me harm ten years from now.

If I thought that, I wouldn’t walk outside my house in the morning. Fear is not a way to guide your life.

I’ve thought about this. Or some version of this. We do leave this peculiar trail online.

I definitely wouldn’t want it.
Yet, obviously, it’s not a deterrent.

@elbanditoroso – I am not advising anyone to do that.
I do wonder though, how free some are with their thoughts when not behind a screen.
Are they naturally argumentative in “real life” or more reserved with their opinions., particularly when dealing with a stranger. A more intimidating stranger, that is.

I don’t think people will be shocked, ot take offense, when they read my contributions on here in a newspaper.
Also can’t really see a newspaper that thinks it’s worthy of publishing it.

@raum- I think about it especially when I see people I personally know post their thoughts anonymously.
It is definitely a curiosity for me.
Half the time, it’s not even what they say but how they say it.In this case, the words they type.
It can be very telling.

@rebbel – You never know… :)

I find it fascinating. How RL personalities translate into OL personalities. And vice verse.

@raum – It really is. :)

I’m much taller online. I can reach stuff.

@canidmajor – and that reminds me of a song…TY for this earworm XD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0Wd8rGWbA0

@lucillelucillelucille well, crap, now I’m stuck with it!

Wouldn’t bother me, i’m an open book, what uc of me is what you get.

I doubt if anybody would know or care about YARNLADY, I would have no problem with my stuff being posted anywhere, anytime, even under my real name.

@ucme-I had that feeling about you

@lucillelucillelucille Hmm, a backhanded compliment if ever there was.

@ucme -No,it is a direct compliment. :)

@lucillelucillelucille Oh I know, just i’m real shy see :D

@ucme -I did not have that feeling about you. That was also not meant to be insulting.

…“I’m hooked on a feeling”

@ucme – Don’t worry. It’s jus a feewing that will soon pass.

Ten years represents a lot of growth for me. Things I said a decade ago don’t always represent who I am now.

@ARE_you_kidding_me -I should have left out the “10 years later” altogether and just asked it in regards to current statements.