I figure that others may decide not to answer personal questions, and that’s OK. But I have no fear of posting personal probes. My rationale is this.
I’ve had a website for my business ever since the WWW protocol was introduced in the early 90s. Before that, I’d been on USENET. So I’ve had a very long time to adjust to the idea that online privacy is mostly an illusion and that the Internet is an absolutely TERRIBLE hiding place for things you wouldn’t want anyone to know. Obviously, I don’t want my SSN, bank account numbers, credit card numbers and passwords known, so I don’t share them openly on the Internet. Other stuff I do share could easily be tracked down by even a moderately skilled hacker, and even if I didn’t post such stuff, Google knows. So I don’t sweat talking about it.
So far, that level of openness has only come back to bite me once, and that little nip I will gladly bear. A potential client that was launching a small business and wanted to hire a web developer read online in searching about me that I supported net neutrality, and curtly informed me that he would not do business with anyone that took such a stand. To tell the truth, if that’s his opinion, I wouldn’t want to help his business succeed. I hope he eventually paired up with a suitably Luddite developer who gave him a website worthy of such an authoritarian personality.
And yeah, I hope he reads this. :-)