When the cat’s away, the mice will play
Anonymouse surfing. What a self conscious way to surf the web. What are you hiding?
One thing that I cannot stand is spending my day looking at my site’s statistics to see who bothered to visit it using stupid anonymous surfing sites. Is this the only way you can leave comments on my site? Or worse yet, the only way to communicate with me? You think I am stupid and I cannot figure out who it is and why?
1. You cannot just email me instead? I usually reply back.
2. You cannot just use your real name and surf the internet normally? Why are you hiding anyways? Who cares?
3. I have my own life, and I live it the way I please. If you are bothered by my life style choices, religious opinions, and you think that you are obligated to control me and give me your advice all the time, then you are wrong.
4. If you are pissed that I left to BC, and didn’t tell anyone, especially you, then don’t worry, I wasn’t thinking when I did it. I needed a vacation. Didn’t you always tell me that? Or are you more pissed off that I am thinking of settling by looking for work here instead? Maybe I need a change in life, and not the same old thing over and over again. Maybe that has been my problem all along.
5. I don’t want any hard feelings between us. I am just going through a hard time, and for once, put your self in my shoes. Ok? Is that too hard? Not everyone has a perfectly ordered life and no problems.
6. I had this blog since 2006, and I use it to communicate my opinion with others. Opinions. Opinions. Opinions. That’s the magic word, opinion. It is also a place where I can record events that happened in my life and look back at them. It is also a way for people who appreciate my honestly, like my writing style, appreciate my online social networking friendships, to get to know everything about me. I am a real person you know. And you would be surprised how well people know me now. Probably more than I know my self.
7. You won’t believe the amount of caring thoughts, helpful tips, and prayers I get from visitors. I love it. It gives me hope, and I appreciate everyone. However, I don’t like it when people force feed me advice and think that their opinions are the only ones that are correct, and mine are always wrong. You don’t leave room to debate in this situation, but only make me angry and ignore you more.
8. I don’t care if you like my blog or not. I am sticking to it. Unlike some people’s extravagant life style, this site is my only source of income. However, with the support of many people so far, I am going to be starting a couple of new blogs with lots of writers to help me out, and start something big. It will take time, but I am patient and have lots of faith.
9. I will continue looking for work here or back in London, or wherever God puts me. I don’t care anymore. I need a stable income, a permanent job, and room for improvement. If worse gets to worse, I will keep my online endeavors open and give it my full time dedication.
10. So don’t worry about me. If my blog bothers you, stop going on it and try to find something against me. You removed me from Twitter, and you stopped talking to me. So why does it matter what I say on my blog? You want to use it against me in the future? I don’t think you can anyways. What will you tell others? She is too honest? She is opinionated? She knows how to communicate with others and be in the top 100,000 websites in the world? She knows how to design websites and code? She can create digital graphics for the web? She knows how to put computers together? She is a good software designer? Or will you just pick the worse parts and say, “she is very stubborn. ”
In conclusion, these sites:
http://anonymouse.org/anonwww.html
http://www.the-cloak.com/login.html
etc . . . or most of the anonymous surfing sites don’t work. One of my statistic counters can see real IP addresses behind the hidden link. So it is kind of useless, and all you are stuck with is a bunch of unwanted banners and ads. You are giving those people money only, and not surfing anonymously.
However, one of those anonymous proxies does its job and hides anyone pretty well. Unfortunately, I know how you write, and can figure out your writing style and tone pretty quickly.
Ps. I learned from the best, and I worked with them in the past. Also, I spend numerous hours on the internet and read a lot.
Thank you, and I hope this post was enough to convince you to stop worrying about Mona!!




The last time I wrote a blog like this, I felt really good after wards. People browse thinking you don’t know and when you point out you do..
It takes a lot of work to be anonymous on the web & honestly, most people don’t care enough to work that hard.
@Moonstar Silverwolf
I don’t care what people do online or how they surf it. That’s their problem really. However, once it starts to effect me, then I will say something about it.
To be fair Mona, some people at work use anonimizers to browse banned website from thier work network, to cover thier asses, and that’s a huge trend in the Arab world
I use one to browse one site that is blocked In our country, UAE is by far the worst in banning websites
but it’s a different story when they use those websites for hate mail/ comments
@Thaer
I understand that so many countries block lots of sites. However, my site is not blocked, and people who hide are just hiding.
Another questions, hmm, why would anyone block them selves from work to read my blog? Can’t they wait to get home and read it!
Your blog is so cool and entertaining that we can’t wait to get home to read it, we browse it from work :up:
@Thaer
Hahaha.. thanks.. but I don’t want you guys to get in trouble. I would feel guilty!
I think that was a compliment…
@yuno
It somewhat was. I didn’t want to get mad or anything about a silly situation like this. Not worth the energy. However, I hope the idea behind it was understood.
It kind of defeats the point of debate when you use a proxy sites to make an argument, but I assume that’s what they are thinking when they do that because they are too cowardly to stand up to a person who can respond back.
@D.S.
I don’t think it is cowardly, but some people think it is easier to do so they can pretend I can listen to some “stranger” and not them.
Hey Mona…
I always type rebelliousarabgirl,then ctrl+enter and here i land…. and i just love following your blog….
minus the anonymous folks… the worlds would be such a good place if people stop being fake(i.e.anonymous)…..call them cowards or otherwise… Life goes on
@Khadeer Ali Mohammad
I really appreciate it! :up:
Thank you for loving my blog!
I do surf anonymously sometimes, I like the privacy it gives me, for the same reason people have curtains/blinds, wear clothes and don’t appreciate stalkers. On the web it’s all to easy for companies to stalk you and ‘profile’ you, but i’m not too keen on that!
when i want to surf anonymously, I use TOR, and you won’t find my IP with that. I’m not using it atm tho, but then again my IP address isn’t static anyway…
I love your blog anyway :up: ! And your graphic design (much better than what I can do
). Even if you do eventually get a job, don’t give this up, it’s too much fun.
@Henry
I understand that everyone needs their privacy online, and I do use some anonymous proxies sometimes to view some sites. However, I never use it to comment or bother with the owner of the site. I am very turn the head kind of person. If I don’t like something, I just move on. I don’t like starting a non-ending argument. It is pointless. We all have our own opinions, and nothing wrong with discussing them like civilized people, but not do it just to be annoying and think we know everything and everyone else does not.
I appreciate you liking my graphic design skills. I play around a lot and learned it all on my own. I wish I took some courses, but I think I practiced and read enough tutorials online. I saved my self some tuition fees.
I am never going to give up this site. Why should I? I had it for many years now. I love it. It is a part of me, and I love communicating with other people and reading people’s well thought of comments and suggestions.
Yea, I’m all for freedom of speech, I might not agree with someone’s opinion, but I will fight to the death for their right to say it!…so long as they say it politely
. To be honest, the people who can never consider other people’s opinions to be right generally know very little about the subject in question anyway!
Yay, I’ll hold you to that
From what I got in your post, I think you are talking about someone in particular, I’m not sure. But that one proxy, Anonymouse, I think that one was mine, I remember about a month ago fiddling around with proxies. I don’t think I posted anything for a while though on your blog. But hey, now I know proxies may not always work.
no, not all proxies work. Only TOR works perfectly, preventing anyone less than the USA government finding out who you are.
@mo
I was talking about one person, and one person only. I think they got the message.
@Henry
Like I said, people can use that they like. I don’t care if it does not effect me.
This attitude makes me always wonder
A brave person is the one who tell his/her opinion with your identity regardless the point of agreeing/disagreeing with the blogger!
@Hicham and hey Mona, long live cats