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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (56903)	9/5/2002 1:28:36 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Hi Solon. I've also been reluctant to give information. I don't think spouses have any special obligation because any two or more posters may share information (possibly more, due to more common interests than married people with rather different interests). My guidance to people is to use a forum such as SI like they'd use a postcard. Not everyone at my work would have access to my postcards nor would I want to be ruined if they did. SI account managers in the past have been made of rather strange emotional and constitutional fabric. I think that they have more access to information than we'd like and I suspect that they wouldn't have MY scruples. Mine are pretty good. But then I don't feel obligated to test them by engaging in sharing personal information. I've been on-line since BBS's were big. Only a very trusting person (and potential victim) would trade information with people they only knew by on-line connection. Even a handful of 3D meetings doesn't give much insight into character. It is only through observation of people in a variety of situations that one can surmise character. In times of tremendous stress, people can change from their normal mode of operation. There are things even my best friends don't and won't know about me. I have a personal life. I like to keep it personal and private. The probability of a secret shared being disclosed is of transcendental order. The only safe secret is the one not shared or otherwise intimated.