Anyway, on a more serious note - on Dec 10, an under 16 social media ban will be enacted in my country.
At this stage, Tumblr is not one of the sites that has been selected for the ban and - for now - will not require any form of age verification to remain online. That could change at any point, and I will not be staying on any site that requires personal identification to keep my account.
In Australia, unlike the UK, each site must come up with it's own methods of identifying a user's age. There must be an option that can verify age without using identifying personal documentation as evidence. Realistically, the larger social media sites will probably be using their own algorithms to determine if anyone isn't the age they say they are and will not require any sensitive information, but. Well. This is tumblr. We're still fairly anonymous, and we don't have one of those. So, they'll need to come up with something else, if they even bother.
I'm still not sure how this ban will shake out or how any smaller sites will be handling the change, but I'm not playing ball with anything that could compromise my personal security. We have enough sensitive data leaks in this country, I'm not tempting fate.
If I should lose access to Tumblr for that reason, I will be deleting this blog. I'm hoping it doesn't come to that! But if I suddenly disappear without warning, that's what's happened.
But it's not happening yet, and hopefully not anytime soon! Or ever.
I've truly enjoyed my time on this site, and I'm extremely grateful for the friends I've made and to everyone that's read my rambling thoughts. I really hope I'll be able to stay here.
