It’s up to you to reveal it or not. It’s not a “request” if it can’t be denied.

Christ are we going to be having “hippa”(sic) arguments again?

You can refuse to answer - I sure would. Or just say you have an appointment. Being asked is not illegal.

Then I assume the jerk will just deny your request.

Glad to hear! Hopefully you find it helpful (if not find someone else).

It can be. But also don’t be hard on yourself if it does take a while. It’s okay if it does. It’s also not as intense for as long.

Maybe a therapist would be helpful as somebody you can vent to and help you through it.

With the caveat that many of these things should be done in moderation. Abusing drugs and alcohol will make things worse.

With the caveat that many of these things should be done in moderation. Abusing drugs and alcohol will make things worse.

*possibly

It verifies that what you are seeing is actually from a government agency. Like how .gov as a TLD verifies that you’re in a government website.

You’re really fundamentally misunderstanding this whole situation. This is like the government running their own webserver to host a blog. It’s not government controlling anything.

What exactly do you think they’ll be able to do now?

They can see pretty much all the things without an instance. So can you. Social media is not private.

It’s not hard to find… you click the big yellow “Sign Up” button and it will show you a price list

All they had to do was add sms to one of their chat apps, and people would have migrated over word of mouth for the extra features slowly overtime.

You just described “Google Hangouts”.

Elon and Trump are fairly unique in that context usually makes it worse.

But clearly people’s right not to be subject to psychological experiments without their consent is being violated.

I’m not sure if this is sarcasm or not…