Anyone else remember when floppy disks were a thing and you were told not to share personal info online? Kiwifarms is why you should have heeded that advice. Have a professional and a shitposting account. Do not mix the private and personal.
Fucking oversocialized retards ruin everything.
How hard would it be, to come up with a different nickname, different password and create a separate email account you don't use anywhere else?
Very hard, apparently.
What we have right now isn't the Internet age, this is the social media age.
In the Internet age, we were taught to not reveal our personal details, always be suspicious of the person you're talking to, use a pseudonym (preferrably different pseudonyms for different websites), etc.
More importantly, we had to do a lot more on our own. We were taught not to trust the Internet - after all, you never know who's on the other end.
Of course, then big corporations realized they could make money with our personal data by selling it to advertisers. So nowadays kids are taught to make an account on all these social media platforms. Use your real name, age, address, birthdate, etc. Give up all the little details of your personal life, after all you "have" to do it to be cool and interact with your friends. Turn off that pesky AdBlock, too, because ads are "essential" for these services to operate.
Now being spied on is normal, everything you do is tracked via telemetry to """improve our services""".
That's why, for example, they fall for scams that essentially say Microsoft is automatically monitoring every single computer for malware, and then lock their access to it against their will unless they pay up. Of course they'd fall for that. Why won't they?