A faceless forum is an internet platform where users’ open threads, make comments, engage in conversations all under the guise of being anonymous. Examples are Nairaland, Kongregate, Pantheonmmo, etc.

I'll be focusing solely on this forum and also use it as an example as it is what we are conversant with.

With the inception of google-reverse image search, your display photo on Nairaland could be easily traced back to your Facebook, Twitter or Instagram account and people can get in touch with you through those social media platforms. So you aren’t as anonymous as you think after all.

Google reverse image search is simply uploading a photo or providing a url to the photo on google image search and watch google do its magic of finding out similar images.

What this implies…

1. This implies that if you’re an e-bully and you have your DP placed, you could be easily traced back to any of your social media accounts and get arrested for online battery, e-bullying and other offences (are these even legal?)

2. To the ladies who make it hard for guys to slide into their DMs, Emails or whatever, this idea can come in handy for ‘crushes’ to get in touch with the real person behind a moniker on the social media platform and start off a relationship from there (who knows?)

3. To the stalkers… This just advanced your stalking skills to grade ‘A’ and you can infiltrate your victim’s privacy as you wish and banter them off-NL.

4. E-fights will not only start and end on NL with the deactivation of a moniker, so if a moniker deactivates out of frustration, the attacker could still slide into his/her Facebook wall and continue the assault there until he’s blocked

5. The wealthy guys, broke guys, slay queens, gold diggers will finally be identified (Not good right? Yeah)

6. Finally, the most dangerous part. You could be killed! Like really killed. If you’ve provoked a serial killer and he does a trackback of your DP and finds your location through Facebook… You’re skewed! Dead! (Yikes! Scary right? Yeah, that wouldn't matter when you're dead )

All these can only work if your Nairaland DP is on any other internet platform like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc


Caution: Take heed to these things as you can lose your life.

Sometimes I do wonder if nwaakpe is a human being coz a bloody human won't be doing things like that

see as i come dey fear....

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see as i come dey fear....

Lol

You know the kind trouble you don too find for here abi? So many people will love to see your head on a spike

SirMichael1:


Lol

You know the kind trouble you don too find for here abi? So many people will love to see your head on a spike oh

lolz but i am not a trouble maker nah...



i still dey sambisa forest oh...

Let no one dare look for me oh, cos bomb will just blast the person's head..

I concur.... . nice piece ......... thanks op

no be lie . ...
. fp material

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lolz but i am not a trouble maker nah...



i still dey sambisa forest oh...

Let no one dare look for me oh, cos bomb will just blast the person's head..

This forest you always claim to stay in, not only will NL guys want to chop off your head but the JTF of Nigeria too.

So my dear, your trace-back is eminent

Rtopzy:
I concur.... . nice piece ......... thanks op

You're welcome and it wouldn't be effective if you don't apply it.

Remind me to never use my picture as DP. Let me remove this one Nw Nw.
I could be killed? beht why

HannahHitler:
Remind me to never use my picture as DP. Let me remove this one Nw Nw.

I could be killed? beht why

Does your siggy has anything to do with power?

What about those folks that say "I'm in my house come and beat me"?

SirMichael1:


This forest you always claim to stay in, not only will NL guys want to chop off your head but the JTF of Nigeria too.

So my dear, your trace-back is eminent

nobody can touch, i am untouchable..

Wait of time if they start looking for me..




Good morning..

Not as easy as you make it .....this is naija....

I have always known this. It gets worse.... Using Google images I can as well get the persons profile including the phone number.

The fact that u register with your email start phone or computer should tell any reasonable prison that these platforms are not faceless.

All these things are very easy to trace. So mind what you say!

Even if you don't have a picture, there are other ways you can be tracked, through your username, personal information revealed etc

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good

yeah

Rubbish... mtchewww

your post no get depth.
how do u talk of un-facing without due recourse to ip address.
With your IP. address, someone can not just track u to u, but track you to ur house or workplace and then beat u up (for all those that say I dey my house come and beat me)

on nairaland if someone sends u a DM and u reply, the person will know ur email address, and with ur email address someone can trace ur oda social media accounts and then find u and ur loved ones.

another thing is, some of us will write a post, share it on our social media walls and bring it here to share as well... all it will take will be to take most of ur post, and search, if it keeps turning up on a particular social media handle.. then that's the face.

another way of unearthing a face behind a moniker is to find an email ripper all, and then rip the email from the persons page, and then work on searching up the email on the social media.


WITH THAT BEING SAID AND DONE, I WANT TO GIVE A SHOUTOUT TO ALL THOSE WORKING TIRELESSLY TO UNEARTH THE PERSON BEHIND MY MONIKER.. ladies and gentlemen... WORK HARDER.

On Nairaland, I use twitter account or username to trace.

When it comes to other forum, God works in a mysterious way for me, somehow somehow I will trace the person perfectly.

Do I have witnesses in the house? Sure!

Is this for real?

Ok

Nothing dey happen, who want kill a witch... Am waiting

Since I have my pic on my dp, I'm in my office, come and beat me

You may be right.

Ehnnnnn
Op are you zerious
Not scared, because my hands are clean

K024:
What about those folks that say "I'm in my house come and beat me"?

People like me.

Why u dey fear u don do bad tin abi

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see as i come dey fear....