I noticed that each of you asks and answers questions about your kin-ness and about your history. Many of you are willing to share memories (if you have them) of lives lived before.
You tell your stories and seem to be being completely honest, but I wondered if you were 100% honest?
I'm not saying that any of you are lying, so please don't think that.
I'm just wondering if there is a point you would reach where you think 'that's enough sharing, this is going into information I'm not comfortable with posting onto the internet'?

How far would you go in your posts and when do you stop?

Also have you ever posted anything and then wished you hadn't?
I am not asking for details here, just a 'yes, unfortunately I have' or a 'no way I'm far too careful'.

Kes.

This is a very good question.
I answer most questions as well as I can, and would be as honest as possible in the things I said, but there are some things about myself that I would not share. Obviously I am not going to say here what those things are!! LOL
I consider some things in my life to be too personal to post on the internet, anywhere.
I have no issues with people who would happily post their life stories as long as they post no personal details that can be traced, as that is against the rules.
I also have no problems with people who like me withold certain pieces of information.
If I was asked for advice on this subject then I would say post ONLY what you would be comfortable with your worst enemy in the world knowing. If you wouldn't want them to find out, then don't say it, as you have no way to know who will read your post.

Yes there are times when I have shared something with someone and had it come back on me afterwards and make me think well I shan't be doing that again in a hurry, if ever. lol
Because of this I have bigger trust issues now, but I believe that is only because I trusted the wrong people to begin with. You know not everyone who seems nice actually is??

I am more careful now, and I am learning new things about dealing with people every day. Hard lessons some of them, but useful, and full of information that it really is better to know.

Well I don't know very much so there's not much to tell yet.
I'm more worried about posting stuff than I used to be, but that's because I've seen now that others can be mean about what you say. Even when it's just about yourself that your'e saying it;.
I think I'd be careful what i said now, and keep more stuff to myself.
But I like talking to you but I don't like talking to every body so I'm not sure.

I never used to care very much about what other people thought. It didn't bother me at all who read what I wrote.
Then I was brought down to earth by the throat by a happening that had an unfortunate effect on almost every member of this forum.
I have taken careful time to consider my position on what these people think about me, especially when the assimilationists came here.
I am now back to the point where I don't give a rat's ass what the Borg Kin think of me! I would honestly answer any questions asked, and I will post words that are true to me.
I have spoken to my mum who believes as I do that this is our home, and if you can't be yourself when you're at home where can you?
Obviously there are going to be sensible things I avoid, and personal details I omit, but I will be as honest and open as I can be, and Cat Elves don't grow on trees now do they? Live in them or under them or around them maybe, but they don't grow on them!

Darkness.

Hear hear.

Cat Elf? I suppose I should have thought that through really shouldn't I? Your mother is an Elf and you show yourself as Feline. Do you fully identify yourself as Cat or is there Elf in you aswell? How did you know that Elf was not what you were? And how did you tell your mum? That must have been a tough decision to make?
If I'm being intrusive tell me to go away.

Phoenix can grow on trees....especially if you set light to the tree they are sitting in. A good fire always make me get a bit bigger

Ok serious face on
I have fallen into the traps of giving out too much information myself on both otherkin and non-kin forums but I won't be doing it again either. I dont like the repercussions.
I am quite happy to post anything not too personal though.
All sorts of the things we do everyday could be abused but there are things out there that are only meant to hurt people, those things will not pass through these fingers. If people ask I will say no, and why but I won't pass on information like that for any reason.

Other than that I am as truthful and factual as I know how to be and if it gets too personal I just don't say it.
Safety first you know

Zygo

I wouldn't post personal details anywhere on the internet. It makes you too easy to find.
I don't understand why anyone would want to go to all that trouble, but they do.
I think the worst people for this kind of thing are the ones who say they're your friends, and then check up on you when you're downloading a photo they sent you, or even just chatting. They try and hack into your personal life and use your trust to help them do it. I'm not sure just what these low lifes get out of it, but I don't accept downloads in chatrooms now. Ever.
I protect myself every way I know how.
What I choose to share is my business, but I do my best to stop people stealing things from me and using what they've stolen against me and that includes personal info.

I'm fairly open, although I do not share enough physical details for the possibility of being tracked. I do, however, share almost all of my past life memories. Some things are kind of hard to talk about, and I don't tell them to everybody because they'd think I should be locked up. This I learned from experience. I don't tell most people about one of my lives because it's just... crazy. Nobody would take me seriously, and I try not to tell people about the bad things from my past lives. I hate being a downer, but if they ask, I'll tell.

I would probably post most about anything on here, but next to nothing anywhere else.
This place has been very good for me and the other members have mostly been very good to me. It's good to find somewhere like that.
I know it's not like that for everyone, but a lot of them didn't want to tell us about them, they wanted to tell us about us, and that doesn't seem to go down very well here.
I was willing to share almost everything here, and then that changed. I'm working on changing that back again at least as far as I'm concerned, and I'm hoping to have company.

If I understand this thread and you people at all which I think I do. A bit.

I can say "I'm a Wyvern"
and you'll know what I mean. And if thats the case just about anything goes really as long as it's not personal to this lifetime cause I wouldnt really want people out there finding out who I am. From what I have heard Draconics are more accepted than most, but still I dont want to -*test*-('") it. how about if I go share some of it and see if that answers your question Kes.
There. cards on the table.
Wings and things
LannTor

Cards on the table? Pard that's fighting talk!

I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours.
Cards of course! tut tut.

Ha haaaa touche swords at Dawn Obs
I didnt mean it like that really I was just putting things down for all to see.
Never said a word about what you meant
wings and things
LannTor

I would post most things here without worrying too much about it, but I never go anywhere else.
Often the other forums are unfriendly to people who think differently, and I get very tired of being a member of the group who think differently. I only have time really for one posting stop, so I choose this one because here I feel that I really fit in. This is the only forum where I've felt that.

To be honest i'd only post generalities on most forums. The only place i really say anything is on an invitation only site.

im pretty honeston places i feel comfortable, then again im bit of an open book and i tend not to have much to hide.

its places like this that have made me feel good about what i do and what i believe so im not affraid or shy about talking.

ofcourse when it comes to talking about other people then i tend to be a bit more vague, mainly because its not my information to tell the world.

there are curtain net safety things to always keep to like numbers and addresses or full names, but to be honest with places like facebook and myspace thers not much for people left to hide (im not judging, i am a frantic facebooker)

i guess its down to how open you are and thecompany you are in

terrix