"come to our local tech meetup!"

yeah you know I should socialize

"oh, we need to be sure to take a picture of everyone there at every meetup!"

whelp that's no longer something to consider

@phaedr0s oh so much this, and then they also "make sure" to upload it to facebook. And those are supposed to be the somewhat tech- and privacy-aware people 😭

Once I was literally turned away from like a 20-person "informal" tech event for refusing to show my ID at the door...