Posted by Sobriquet Style on March 4, 2006, at 9:25:29
In reply to IF YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT SOMEONE, posted by 5 on March 4, 2006, at 2:10:36
Its truely amazing, I found, the 'communication' that goes on behind the scenes on babble about posters personal issues.
One of the reasons I have my babblemail switched off now, is because before when I was posting, I began babble mailing with afew people, which then led on to emails. Once I was commnicating through emails, it was clear to see that my emails were being forwarded on to other posters for them to read.
Perhaps I was under the impression, that because I was commicating through email, what I had to say there was personal to me, and intended solely for the recipient I had emailed. When I emailed with someone else, the same goes. To find out my emails were being spread around between posters, I thought, whats the point in emailing why not just post what you have to say to me on the board so everyone can see it? It felt to me that my emails were public viewing anyway, when snippets started to come out on the baords. I then made it clear to the people that I was emailing, very politely, that what I discuss in emails are privite, otherwise I'd post it on the baords. Only to then have even more snippets come on to the boards about my privite life.
I felt my privacy was violated, but of course this is just my experience, and it happened along time ago.
Although, I'd still like to warn people, perhaps new members of babble that when emailing people off the boards you may find that your emails are being forwarded on to people you'd rather they didn't and people you don't even know.
Of course, if you are okay with your emails being forwarded on to other people its no problem. For me it felt like people were talking behind my back, no need to mention how I felt about that.
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