That puzzled me for a while until I realized that folks likely _do_ recognize me. They just don't approach.
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Replying to @sarahmei
Randomly telling a man you recognize him from twitter & like his work seems socially acceptable; doing that to a woman seems more stalker-y.
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Replying to @sarahmei
I once had a dev with 100k+ Twitter followers recognize me walking past their office and tweet about it most terrifying thing
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guh, that's scary! The more followers I get the more attention I try to pay to who I might tweet about for this reason O___O
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it was even scarier because he spotted me from several stories up we hadn't even walked by each other on the street
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wow. My "micro celebrity moments" so far have been benign "Hey, are you Data Science Renee?!?" at a conference :)
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Replying to @BecomingDataSci @kf and
"I know you from Twitter!" me, internally: "oh god what did I do???"
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski @kf and
haha yeah it's also important to determine whether the person looks like they want to be approached..
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Replying to @BecomingDataSci @kf and
I've had moments where people approached me re: my OK Cupid work and I wasn't sure if it was hostile
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski @BecomingDataSci and
clearly there's a lot more at play here than just gender...age, perceived power, appearance?
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for that particular work I got many threats from MRAs who are bad at reading.
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