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by nine_k 3188 days ago
Do a thoroughly stupid thing, reap the consequences. Post publicly a bunch of private info, like your complete contact details, get your account (or more of your identity) stolen.

There is nothing surprising about that, nothing hard to understand.

What is hard is actually thinking about what you are doing. Maybe, well, showing off your sophisticated and aesthetically perfect password is not such a good idea due to other considerations.