Do you want to consolidate your social media identities and, for instance, use the same name across media or do you want to keep them separate?
All social media whether Chinese or international is surveilled, of course, but do you want to make it easy for the metadata trackers? is there reason to be paranoid? Social media accounts are linked to your phone number, which is, increasingly, linked with your real name. If you're foreign, your phone number has always been linked to, probably, your passport, because you used it as ID to buy the number in the first place. And while ultimately, all surveillance is at least icky, it might also be that some surveillance is more hostile than others.
But on the other side, online identities gain substance the more they exist across media. Branding is the poor cousin of this idea, that online identity can be real and substantial. And maybe there is reason for not just companies, but people to consolidate...
As I age I am becoming to my surprise something of a luddite and really don't want answers to any of these questions. They make me paranoid, and I'm paranoid already. But I suppose it has to be asked, maybe particularly in the context of China. (And, if we want to appear even-handed, in a context of NSA.)
What do you reckon?
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