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Noah Gabranth
2/10 near Recolle
Given that the developers of this application seem wholly uninterested in filtering children and inexperienced users out of their testing pool, I thought it would be prudent to go over some basic rules for navigating social media safely.

1) Never disclose personally identifying information online. Ordinarily this would include one's full name, but Retrospec has made that a moot point by displaying it at all times. Nevertheless, it is important that you keep other information such as your date of birth, home address, and passwords to your online accounts a private matter.

2) Never post anything that you wouldn't want someone to see. You might think you can just delete it, but once something's on the Internet, it's effectively there forever for anyone and everyone to see. Think carefully before you post.

3) If someone on the Internet wishes to meet with you offline, never go alone. Ensure that you have someone with you, preferably a parent or other trusted adult, and ensure that you'll be meeting in a public, well-lit area in open view. Better yet, don't go at all, as not everyone on the Internet is really who they say they are.

If anyone has any additional safety pointers, you're welcome to add them to this post.

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Chloe Bouchard Right now, I wish to believe the best of those on this app.
Chloe Bouchard We seem to have been drawn into a shared strangeness, and I would hope this breeds solidarity.
Chloe Bouchard But human nature is human nature.
Chloe Bouchard We cannot assume.

Noah Gabranth Right. Like I said, best not to assume anything of anybody who's on the Internet, whether it's on this app or elsewhere.

[ He can see the philosophical underpinnings of her comments if he squints, but he's not particularly in any mood to address them beyond face value. He's not here to reflect on the nature of humanity, he's here to help protect children and keep adults from being idiots, gosh darn it. ]

[Thankfully, those philosophical underpinnings played well to his goals. Thinking poorly of humanity as a species meant that a little paranoia went a long way.]

Chloe Bouchard Hopefully there have not been problems already, other than the app itself.
Chloe Bouchard I know that the fact that our names are available isn't helping at all.

Noah Gabranth I would venture that a small handful of users have already shown they have no business engaging with a platform such as this one.
Noah Gabranth I would hope that this post would help them to improve their behavior, but hope can only do so much.

Chloe Bouchard Only time will tell, I suppose.
Chloe Bouchard Well, other than the obvious, if there is anything I can do to help, let me know.

Noah Gabranth Advising others to be more thoughtful in their interaction with this network would be helpful enough.

[ Well. What would really be helpful would be for this immense privacy-invading nightmare to be shut down, permanently, but he's already long surmised that this is far beyond the capacity of one or two outsiders to achieve. ]

Chloe Bouchard I will do my best.
Chloe Bouchard In the meantime, please take care.