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[judicatus]

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.

Comments

[true_noir]

Chloe Bouchard I suspect that these rules may be even more important than usual with this app, since it seems impossible to remove.
Chloe Bouchard And, if we consider that the strangeness that has been happening, with the horses and other matters only seems to happen to us...
Chloe Bouchard It is probably especially important to be careful.
Chloe Bouchard Of course, this applies to all ages, but especially the young.

[Admittedly, Chloe liked to think she could take care of herself, thank you very much and she wasn't as good about Rule #3 right now, especially because the only people who had seen the weirdness had this app. Hell, she'd gone out drinking with someone she'd just met on this.

Yeah, she was more of a 'do as I say, not as I do' sort when it came to this.]

[judicatus]

Noah Gabranth Yes, this post was primarily intended for the youngest among those of us who've been drafted into using this app.

Noah Gabranth Although I suspect a not insignificant number of the older userbase could benefit from these rules as well.

[true_noir]

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.

[judicatus]

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. ]

[true_noir]

[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.

[glacian]

Gentiana Illyria I see you're in better spirits today, Officer Gabranth.
Gentiana Illyria Has the investigation proven fruitless already?

[judicatus]

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.

[judicatus]

Noah Gabranth It's Detective Gabranth, and that matter is irrelevant to this post.

[ yes, please forget that he already fucked up by mentioning police matters on this extremely public-facing platform, aaaah aaaaaaah ]

[true_noir]

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.

[judicatus]

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. ]

[true_noir]

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

[glacian]

Gentiana Illyria A detective, are you? My honest mistake. I had no idea a "detective" would share such sensitive information so freely.

[NOPE. No free pass for you, Gabranth. Gentiana sees and remembers all.]

Gentiana Illyria How are you enjoying Retrospec so far?

[mercurio]

Prompto Argentum what if we have already
Prompto Argentum done all three
Prompto Argentum HYPOTHETICALLY

[judicatus]

Noah Gabranth I would enjoy it far more if its userbase were more sensible.

[ haha just kidding there's nothing he really enjoys about it at all ]

Noah Gabranth And I'm terribly sorry to disappoint you, but nothing of a truly sensitive nature has been shared. You're welcome, of course, to believe otherwise.

[judicatus]

Noah Gabranth Then I would hope for your own sake that you're an adult, and that you'll be taking this opportunity to reflect on your conduct so far and be more thoughtful in the future.

Noah Gabranth Of course, if you're not an adult, then I would advise your parent or guardian to enable stricter controls on your mobile and Internet-connected devices.

[mercurio]

Prompto Argentum oh lol i forgot i'm not on the kid category anymore hahaha

[is he really]

[judicatus]

[ are you, prompto. are you really ]

Noah Gabranth Forgive me for doubting as much, then.
Noah Gabranth Regardless, I highly recommend that users of all ages follow these rules in the interests of safety and security.

[mercurio]

Prompto Argentum yeah thanks for the advice!
Prompto Argentum i've met really nice people through this though, and reconnected with old friends too!
Prompto Argentum i'll be more choosy from now on

[judicatus]

Noah Gabranth Yes, when used properly, the Internet can be a remarkable tool for connecting with friends new and old, I'm sure.
Noah Gabranth But it never hurts to be cautious.

[ The words probably come off as more encouraging than Noah actually intends. Really, he sees most things on the net — including social media, except in those increasingly-more-common instances where it actually benefits his various investigations — as a huge waste of time. ]

[darkinferno]

Dante Rantanen thanks detective
Dante Rantanen i'm sure all these tips were very effective back in 2001

not here

[twelfthspark]

[The person she went out drinking with would be laughing if she'd bothered to read past the first few lines of the post at all.]

Re: not here

[true_noir]

[Chloe was awful at leading by example. It was as simple as that. Besides, she really wanted everyone to actually be more helpful than dangerous.

This was all too weird otherwise.]

[hjack69]

Jack Dawes and most importantly kids do NOT smoke crack with anyone you meet online
Jack Dawes if youre going to smoke crack then do it with a trusted friend

[ Someone might just be dicking around here. ]

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa Got confirmation that there's kids as young as 10 on here, Detective.
Hitori Togusa I think what makes me more angry is that there's not even an option to filter your posts. None that I've found.
Hitori Togusa So if anybody finds that, or Retrospec's suggestion box, let me know.

[daemonized]

Ardyn Izunia This may fall under the "too little, too late" category.
Ardyn Izunia (As Prompto was kind enough to point out above.)