#and my blog is nowhere near enough that it doesn't make me suspicious

[darlingofdots]

PSA: I will not reblog/post fundraisers or calls for donations on my blog. Tumblr has always had a problem with fake and spam fundraisers (dying cats show up in my inbox on a regular basis!) and I don't have the time nor the resources to investigate each link and story to make sure it's legit. This is a choice I make deliberately about my own tumblr experience and which has nothing to do with my thoughts or beliefs about anything other than "I don't want to expose people who follow me to potential scams." There are plenty of blogs sharing and boosting fundraisers regularly, as well as NGOs and similar aid organisations whose donation portals are easily accessible. I encourage everyone to do their research before donating to any cause, person, or organisation to make sure your money goes where you want it to be, and don't get your information from a random tumblr account like mine!

[romanarose]

Y'know what's wild, I just discovered that if you look up a tumblr username in Google, you can see their likes and reblogs even if you opted to keep your likes private and your account hidden from search engines and third party stuff.

My concern has always been a potential employer seeing my fangirl cringe, and I know that there's software that can let them find all of a candidates or employees' accounts via email.

Unfortunately, tumblr doesn't let you make your primary blog private. And this is where my cringe lives.

You don't have to post what your profession is if you respond to this, but I remember you posting it in the past and it seems like a job that would do some deep diving into your socials.

So, have you had any issues with this? Has it ever come up?

Okay so for anyone who didn’t see the last ask, this person reached out and said they did not mean for this to come off vaguely threatening 😂 I’ve had issues in this fandom space before and we all know the doxxing and doxxing threats around me and many others but this asker seems nice!

Anon, my best advice is not to worry. Most employers don’t know what a tumblr is tbh. And most don’t dig that deep to find every little social esp if it doesn’t have your name.

Romana/roman rose is nowhere near my legal name, and the email isn’t even my main email

So, fun fact for the first year or something of my blood it was a joint blog with someone I used to consider a friend. They weren't into fandom but they liked other aspects of tumblr. It was one of those thing I didn't wanna share my blog but she was good at manipulating. She liked the nsfw stuff here and she was highly controlling so I think she liked to be able to watch what I was up to. Some of y'all here have heard me talk about this friend. She ended up sexuality abusing me, and I am suspicious she did the same to others. I had to slowly cut contsct bc she's doxxed people before

She wanted likes and follows private I guess. Recent years I felt safe enough to actually change passwords and stuff bc were fully non contact. I guess I could make my likes and follows public again? But my likes are just fics I either read and Reblogged or havnt read so idk if there's a point.

If you applying for like, something big then yeah you might have concern. My dad was a cop and he got a federal job and they sent someone 700 miles to knock on our neighbors doors and ask about us 😭

As for my job…… I work at Olive Garden.

In the past I’ve done day care and I’ve done social work, both jobs require background checks but no social media although I’m sure they looked me up for social work.

My last day care job I talked plenty about fan fiction with teachers bc I think it’s a fun hobby and pretty much everyone thought it was fun, even if a bit silly

As my high school never even blocked tumblr in the heyday bc they didn’t know it existed. And those who knew it existed now largely think it’s gone.

Keep a professional and family Facebook. If you have a nsfw or edgy twitter maybe make sure you’re name isn’t attached

Honestly my concern wouldn’t be my fandom cringe or porn stories but the more radical political takes I’ve posted 😭

My brother got into law school and is a lawyer now even with posting borderline alt right/ alt light shit back in his day 🧍🏽‍♂️

Average Employers don’t do as much digging as people like to tell you they do, which is why someone can be president of Canada having done brown face

Obviously be safe, don’t use real names in your user names, but tbh it’ll br oksy

I’ve worried about this sometimes while I had my abuser on this bc I saw once she liked a pro-life post and I was worried people would associate me with that.

If anyone has words to offer nonnie on locking down your account, then please offer them! I’m bad at tech. But I think you’ll be okay!