I was thinking about not publicly revealing the name of a person to which I recently sent a private message by using the memo of the transfer function with a "#" preceding the memo and 0.001 Steem Dollar.
My intent at first was to keep her identity private. She is actually the crypto rich young demoiselle that made me discover this manner of sending others private messages on Steemit through a great post of hers. But then I realized I could not do that because anyone online can simply go to my wallet page and find this out:
So I've decided to come clean and reveal that I sent @roxane a private message. It was my first experience doing this and writing in there takes extra long, at least that's how it is from my Android, and so I think it makes sense only for short messages.
So although I can send a private message to Roxane, I cannot send her any message privately; everyone can see I've done this, which opens the door to terrible gossip. (That's something which Roxane doesn't warn you about in her tutorial.) To avoid this, I would need to know her private email, which I unfortunately do not know.
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Above, I have introduced what looks like a privacy issue but in fact, this is a fake issue. I haven't sent Roxane any message. But what about the evidence that I introduced myself? We'll, there is evidence that a message was sent to her Steemit account from my account, but Roxane isn't her Steemit account. When Roxane picks up messages sent to her account, she always picks up Steemit messages, not my messages. I would like to hereby confess that I am not Steemit. But that in itself is a Steemit message so it does sound like a contradiction. We'll, if I can't confess this, it means I am really Steemit? If I am Steemit, then sending messages to Roxane is something I can do. I must be Steemit if I sent her a message using Steemit. But if I am using Steemit, how can I be Steemit?
I spent enough time pondering about these philosophical questions to realize that privacy in cyberspace matters only if relations on cyberspace are real. My conviction is that they aren't; it's fiction. Who is really concerned about privacy issues in a work of fiction?
Please answer me in the comments below. Since I have just powered up, my upvote is now worth a nice 2¢ and since it's still not enough to make any difference, I'll go to your page if you make a nice comment here and upvote up to two or three of your posts that have already an amount on them and that are still accepting rewards so you get something.
This offer is only valid for the first 5 replies here.
Also, if the question above is too hard to answer, feel free to gossip about the content of the message I sent Roxane. I may reward this as well, especially if you are right on!
Thanks for reading!