#4: Don't host images with account-based image sharing sites.
- Image hosting sites that host albums frequently tag your username in the URL, giving people a way to trace it back. Photobucket is a massive fucking culprit of this. Do not ever host images posted here on Photobucket. Upload directly the site.
- Never post an image from Facebook. It is 100% possible to take a Facebook URL and get your profile from use. Upload directly the site (but change the filename).
Change the filenames of anything you upload directly to here. Make it gibberish, or something generic and unassuming. The connection between two suspected socks could be confirmed by a shared presence of Lightshot format filenames. Or Puu.sh format filenames.
Scrub EXIF data from photos, along with all Properties and Personal Information. Don't get yourself burned by writing up a .doc or .docx file on your personal PC, uploading it to here, and finding out along with everyone else that your IRL name is listed as "Author" in the file properties. If you want to share a non-image file with us via a 3rd-party filesharing website, use mixtape.moe, or make a sock solely for lolcow purposes.
Because I guarantee that you forgot to change the account over to your burner email, and forgot to change your account's name to your sock Kiwi name.
Be very wary of social engineering. The more correct English you use the safer you are. No mistakes in spelling or grammar that gives your text a "fingerprint". Don't use uncommon words or expressions.
This. Try to tame, or standardize, your writing style. If you have weird, possibly identifying idiosyncrasies, cut them out. ESL users are a bit SOL in that regard. Anyone who's ever read a Vidar Viking post can attest.
Related to this: Keep your dumb fucking hobbies to yourself. It's great that you're a sperg encyclopedia about music, dirt bikes, Pokemon, archaeology, whatever. But nobody cares. Again -- something simple like this could help confirm the connection between identities. Especially music. And especially if it's a rare degree of expertise.
The advice to never use the same name is good but definitely make sure they don't connect. When I'm searching for people each time I find a new name its like finding a new track because it usually leads me further and further back into their history.
I also like using generic usernames that yield lots of Google results. Googling ILoveSonichu1991 is really easy. Googling "cat" or "jews" isn't as easy.
I'm the jazz composer Monday Michiru in real life. Didn't you know? The same way you shouldn't recycle usernames, don't recycle profile photos and don't recycle bios or forum sigs across websites. Even falsified ones for other forums.