Nope. I try and avoid getting my picture taken and especially posting anything of my face on the internet. It's a lesson I've picked up from James Bond in Dr. No where he first avoids and then confiscates a camera from a woman trying to take his picture for Dr. No's gang. It's like at the start of Sherlock Holmes with RDJ when he blocks his face just before the newspaper photographer takes his picture. It's like Harold Finch keeping his identity anonymous from the world in Person of Interest. Or Ron Swanson from Parks and Recreation doing all he can to prevent any personal information of his from being learned by anyone.
Smart people and spies realize the benefit of anonymity and being able to move in the shadows and making it difficult to be tracked down by others. A couple times I started to fill out some surveys for contests but then they ask for your address or phone number or e-mail and I stop and exit the survey. I'd rather a corporation not have that to inundate me with flyers and ads than any prize they may offer. The Smash Bros. CD is one of the few times I've broken that rule but that's why I had to kill Club Nintendo.
I'm in a condo building or am I? and when I moved in, I sent in a letter for my name to be added to the buzzer list and get that door unlock process set-up. However, I never got a response back and it never happened. Then I realized I preferred it this way. There's nothing on the building registry that identifies me as living there and I don't have to worry about someone buzzing me accidently or for some other reason. If people I know and invite over show up, I can just go to the door and let them in myself and they know how or have the means to contact me. It makes me sound paranoid which is part of why I like telling this little tale but I'm not living in fear. Just living smart. My snippit of advice for the day.
Agreed.
I use to play the "facebook" game and post photos of myself (I was up to 6 photos), but then I realized that I may one day do something important. And a mystery of life is that you never know when you might do something important. So I went into clean up mode and cleared my pictures, searched for myself, and did some more cleaning.
Why? Well it is more than privacy. I think it's a bit egotistical. People have websites for themselves with nothing but a picture of themselves to greet you. It is for their goal of looking like a professional. But the only time people care who you are, is when they know what you've done. Banksy.
I've always had a dream of traveling the world like Anthony Bourdain and filming my exploits, but in my mind that is different. The focus wouldn't be on me, it would be on the world. That is one of the reasons why I dislike those videos of people taking or filming selfies of their journey across the globe. I don't care about your face and I barely care for your reaction. Show me more of the world!
As for this...this is harmless and any picture I would post of myself would be harmless as well. Yet, I still don't feel the need to willingly share myself when my exploits will do. In fact, it may work to my favor if you never know what I look like, just what I have done. Like Link never speaking, an absence of an image gives my thoughts limitless characteristics.
Anyway, I'll post the image I now always post when asked for a profile:
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