&gt;<i>Seriously, we&#x27;re on a site that has news in the name. You read tech news and have been on the internet for a while, right? How is this still a confusing phenomenon?</i><p>We&#x27;re talking about comment sections. Obviously your &quot;creepy stalker ex&quot; already knows you who are in the first place.<p>But you DO know you can use a handle and NOT use and advertise your real name and address in CNN (or any other place) comment section, right? To quote you &quot;how is this still a confusing phenomenon to people?&quot;.<p>For the rest, I&#x27;m not from your parts of the world.<p>For 96% of the world&#x27;s population, getting &quot;SWAT team to your house that shoots you&quot; or &quot;creepy stalker ex&quot; who somehow doesn&#x27;t know where you live (because you&#x27;ve changed states or whatever), is not a thing. The same way we don&#x27;t get much (if any) police shootings, or much (if any) pubic shootings in general for that matter.