Take it from someone who has been a slasher since she was quite underage - this is good stuff to know.
Set up a password-locked screensaver with a short timer, for those moments when someone drops by your room. Hello! Not such a big deal with stories, but that fan art can be a little obvious. My friend said she always had a cover file open that she'd toggle to.
These two have to be the two best ideas I ever thought up. My problem was basically just NC-17 stuff, because my dad understands fanfic in general, he was part of non-fic SF fandom since he was in college. I was just really, really paranoid.
Oh, and I can't second more the not-using-your-real-name thing. I graduated from high school last spring and all throughout high school we were told, "Never put anything on the Internet that you wouldn't want an employer to see." If you set up a job interview, the employer will Google you. That is a given nowadays. If you are writing NC-17 Dobby/Draco chan, they will find that. Even worse, if your name is anything other than, say, "Jane Smith", it will most likely be the first result. I am proud to say, to this day, that none of the results on Google for my name are actually me. I've been through every page. I can't say this is true for some of my RL friends - they're going to have a time of it when they actually have to get real jobs.
One more piece of advice: You can also tell LJ to not let your journal be returned in search engine results. This is of course not 100% fool proof, but it's a buffer. (They seem to hide this feature from you: Manage Account at the bottom of the page and then Additional Privacy Options. It's the last option.)
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Date: 2006-10-02 02:01 am (UTC)Set up a password-locked screensaver with a short timer, for those moments when someone drops by your room. Hello! Not such a big deal with stories, but that fan art can be a little obvious. My friend said she always had a cover file open that she'd toggle to.
These two have to be the two best ideas I ever thought up. My problem was basically just NC-17 stuff, because my dad understands fanfic in general, he was part of non-fic SF fandom since he was in college. I was just really, really paranoid.
Oh, and I can't second more the not-using-your-real-name thing. I graduated from high school last spring and all throughout high school we were told, "Never put anything on the Internet that you wouldn't want an employer to see." If you set up a job interview, the employer will Google you. That is a given nowadays. If you are writing NC-17 Dobby/Draco chan, they will find that. Even worse, if your name is anything other than, say, "Jane Smith", it will most likely be the first result. I am proud to say, to this day, that none of the results on Google for my name are actually me. I've been through every page. I can't say this is true for some of my RL friends - they're going to have a time of it when they actually have to get real jobs.
One more piece of advice: You can also tell LJ to not let your journal be returned in search engine results. This is of course not 100% fool proof, but it's a buffer. (They seem to hide this feature from you: Manage Account at the bottom of the page and then Additional Privacy Options. It's the last option.)