# So, my kids found out my Straightdope identity **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 1, 2024, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-kids-found-out-my-straightdope-identity/999681 "2024-04-01T14:49:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 116
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-kids-found-out-my-straightdope-identity/999681/116 "2024-04-06T21:57:34Z")
I was first doxxed in 1991 in some Atlanta-based Prodigy board, and since then, really, I never gave a whit about having an anonymous internet profile. Makes my life easier. And as to whether people around me know, of course they do - I don’t keep the SDMB private and commonly would send my profile information (and a link) to women I dated. “Here, read all this and if you still like me, you know how to reach me”. Inna has a login, some other people I know have logins, maybe even my sister(s). And my kid? Yeah. Not only does she know, I created a thread which compiled 18-odd years of threads and posts about her and being her father, and sent her the link, saying “read this!” Did she read it? Who knows! > [@An Open Letter to my daughter, Sophia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-my-daughter-sophia/918949): > > Dear Sophia, Yeah… this is weird. I’m writing to you on some message board rather than sending you an email (though I can do that too!), where a bunch of people you don’t know can read it, but it will… I hope… all make sense in the end. I’ve been a member of this online community since before you were born, before it became a web presence, way back in the 1990s. The Straight Dope itself is a weekly newspaper column series written for an underground newspaper in Chicago starting in 1972. 20 yea… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-kids-found-out-my-straightdope-identity/999681)._