I put my location right there, but, do you call, write, visit??? NO! 
Who calls me? Who writes me?
[ul]
[li]Politicians looking for my vote.[/li][li]Charitable organizations looking for money[/li][li]Companies I do business with, looking for more business.[/li][/ul]
Who visits me? Nobody, because they know I wouldn’t answer the door anyway.
Anyone who’s curious enough to wonder about my exact location can just follow the link to my homepage (click on the username), where my real identity is ripe for the picking by identity thieves and 'bots that crawl the web. Anyone who isn’t curious enough won’t be predisposed to make assumptions based on the Location field. It’s a similar rationale for the recent uproar when Facebook installed the newsfeed “feature”, thereby eliminating the time-consuming work that previously stymied all but the most dedicated of stalkers. I don’t mind if people know those details of my life I care to make public, but that data shouldn’t be spoonfed to any random passerby who happens to cross my path in cyberspace.
Feel free to GOOGLE mine.
I don’t live quite so North anymore. People assumed I was still living in the Arctic, even after I moved to Maryland. So, to some, I’m still pretty North, but to me? Not so much.
I doubt that you wouldn’t be able to find my location and full name, date of birth, and weight if you just read threads I’ve posted to.
Well, I do give my location somewhat. I find it useful when people are asking about my area, and a quick glance to the right corner can show that yes, I do know a bit of what I’m talking about. 
My mother lives in Arlington Heights! Do you know her? 
I’m over here in Prospect Heights. Can you see me? I’m the one who’s waving.
Mine used to say “The Twin Cities of Hypothermia and Frostbite”, but I changed it just for you.
[sub]I’ll be changing it again. Soon.[/sub]
The love that dare not bray it’s name. So there’s this cute little donkey I’m in love with, and her name is Matilda. Is it legal to marry a donkey?
Find me now!! HA!
So out of 43 repliers I count:
Empty or Cute/cryptic location field, no location given in post: 17
Empty or Cute/cryptic location field, USA location given in post: 10
Empty or Cute/cryptic location field, non-USA location given in post: 0
Unambiguous USA location field: 13
Unambiguous non-USA location field: 3
Hmm, not enough of us foreigners to compare paranoia rates, let’s see whether we get more over the weekend. Interesting stuff!
For those of you who left the field empty because of caution, why not use your state or country at least? Again, just curious.
My blank location field is a weak attempt to deny that I live in Hicksville*, Idaho. I’m ashamed that I permitted myself to be in that position, needing to return because I had nothing else. I should have packed that jar of dirt**.
Someday I’ll escape. When I do, I’ll give my location.
*Not really: Idaho Falls could be considered metropolitan… for the area. Sigh.
**An old joke amongst those who were raised here: when you finally get the opportunity to leave, pack some dirt. When you yearn to return, open the jar and inhale. One whiff will cure you.
If it’s important in some way to the thread, I always say my location in the post. By this time, many Dopers already know where I live, what I do, what my tastes are, how gay I may or may not be, how many siblings I have, whether I’ve ever been to Uranus, what football team I like, what bugs like me, etc…
Besides, my location field is perfectly adequate for use in many theories.
Funny how every poster here says that, and yet so much of the time on the boards, it’s just not true. Not that you can even guess all the times that your audience might have some reason to be curious about your location based on something you said.
I’m hoping you’re just kidding. You do realize that you’re not that important to most of the people around here, right? It’s not personal - no one is that important to everyone else.
It’s a minor frustration to me - I mean, it really is a tiny thing. But it’s everpresent. I don’t understand why someone wouldn’t post their general location. No one is going to guess who you are based on what state or country you live in. Your witticism is not still fresh and original the fiftieth time I’ve seen it. Some people might know where you’re from based on knowing you personally or having extensively interacted with you on the boards, but 99% of us haven’t. You may think you always post your location when it’s relevant, but in many cases if not the majority, people don’t, which suggests that either posters’ ideas of when a location is relevant don’t tend to intersect, or else people slip up a lot. Probably both are true to some extent. Oh, and to those couple people who mentioned that I can figure out their location by visiting links on their profiles - damn, how important do you honestly think you are to everyone around you? What, you think that on those occasions when someone gets curious where you’re from, they’re going to bother searching for your myspace profile and correlating it with the anagram clues in the steganographically-hidden text on your personal webpage? No, it just means that when someone has some reason to wonder where you’re from, they won’t know.
It’s a small thing. But there’s simply no reason not to post some general idea of your location. At least for me, I am pretty frequently curious about someone’s location. People allude to their areas without mentioning where they’re from all the time. Plus there’s the occasional instances when someone posts about something so familiar I have to make sure they’re not living next door to me. And then someone just uses some funny little phrase and I wonder if it’s a regionalism and what region they’re from - and there’s no way to find out. We have this useful feature where you can actually post your location! You really can. And then, on those not-too-infrequent occasions when someone just has a moment of curiosity about what general location you’re living in, they can find out.
Or, you know, they can read the same snippet of a joke over and over and over for months or years on end. I guess that’s important too.
Because I am reasonably certain that several of you are in the employ of the SuperFriends, working as informants, and would not hesitate to inform Aquaman of my location. I hate that finny bastard.
And yet I do it when I consider it important to the post. Prove me wrong.
Ha! Thanks, and same to you. Still, some others do know what I do, were I’m from, etc… it shows up in their posts from time to time. Like when Zebra came to OKC and wanted to get together. I never claimed to be important on the Dope, but some people do notice and remember certain things. Like I notice and remember how constantly rude you are in almost every single thing you post.
As for your personal pet peeves, I care not about them, so go ahead and rant on, since that is your wont.
It’s not all tea and cannelloni in the Witness Protection Programme, y’know: if the Mafia got wise that I was really Jackie Scissors, notorious Mob snitch, my life wouldn’t be worth a plugged nickel.
Dude. WTF is your problem? If you want to pit me, go ahead. I don’t remember ever even speaking to you before this, though, so it strikes me as a little unwarranted.
I have no problems. Just pointing out that things can be noticed and remembered even on the internet. We have no interaction because we rarely ever post in the same the same threads. But, just because I haven’t posted in a thread doesn’t mean I haven’t read it.
Relax, it’s not all about you. Just using your tendency towards rudeness as an example that you could grasp. Seems to have worked! . Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m late to a cuddle party.
Whatever your problem with me is, you could at least be straightforward and honest about it and not try to hide it in a bunch of smileys.
I don’t think there’s much risk of me forgetting what you’ve shown about yourself in this thread.
:rolleyes:
Nah, that was uncalled for.
I think you are mistaking what I used as a personal attack. I apologize.