I've toyed with the idea of vanishing completely, but nowadays employers often want to see a web presence.... if it weren't for that, and the convenience of Facebook Messenger, I might have disappeared already.
I was just thinking about how since one usually uses the same identity for many different accounts and interests online, it would be very easy to find someone by looking for people that match those specific sets of interests. You would have to make separate identities for every sort of interest, and never mention the other from a different profile.
Well, most people on Facebook just share links. So it's not hard to look normal. Maybe a little more boring than most, but hey, you work hard and all ;)
If you're going to use multiple identities, they shouldn't have overlapping interests, or common friends, accounts, etc, etc. And they shouldn't ever refer to each other. However, it's fine to have a bunch of identities that break all of those rules, just for the fun of it. You have unassociated clouds of associated identities.
Dig into Mirimir, if you're interested. There are several more-or-less associated identities. Some of them are obvious. Some would take a little work to find. But then, Mirimir is just a relatively superficial pseudonym.
I was just thinking about how since one usually uses the same identity for many different accounts and interests online, it would be very easy to find someone by looking for people that match those specific sets of interests. You would have to make separate identities for every sort of interest, and never mention the other from a different profile.