Tangent To "Fandom Does Not Use Technology, Technology Uses Fandom"

[morgandawn]

Here is a real life example of how technology uses fandom (and by extension the rest of the world).  I received a LinkedIn invite from someone I did not know.  I wrote back and asked 'how do we know each other?" She replied: "I emailed you last month from my fandom account asking to access some of your fanvids. LinkedIn has this 'send an invite to everyone in your address book" when you first sign up (it is a click through) and I clicked in  the wrong area." This "send an invite to everyone in your address book" is a feature "offered" by many online services, so consider this a heads up.

So now this fan has 'outed' herself with her real name, where she works etc. Luckily for everyone involved I cannot remember names, places or faces (ask one of my convention roommates who years later loves to tease me because I not only forgot her name, I forgot we ever  had been roommates).