I've followed her blog for a few years now and always really enjoyed it, and rooted for her even. Last year I made the mistake of following her on Twitter as she wasn't blogging anymore, and regret it. Because her Twitter persona is so different to her blog - there was so much anger, self pity, negativity, and resentment, it was hard to take. But I figured, it was just a phase. However, I was absolutely horrified at her sharing of the Young Colleague story! And it has really not sat well with me.
She has shared private messages of his, details of his appearance/age/work/interests, details of private conversations that would make identifying him very easy (if you knew who she was), and also details of his relationship with an innocent third party girl. On her open, public profile! I am even more horrified at other followers and bloggers who have commented and encouraged this, instead of telling her that this is unacceptable unless she has his (And his ex gf Lockdown Girl's) permission.
And then even worse, she is sharing details of their work relationship - Zoom calls for example where they chat more than work, mocking a client - all things that could get this young man into trouble at work if it came to light. This is madness. It's almost like she and her followers have forgotten that Twitter is a public, live world and just because she is (barely) anonymous does not give her the right to share such deeply personal information for anyone to read/see.
I had no idea who she was for all these years till she posted that photo of herself nude in the sunset. The hair is very unusual and i then realised she is someone I follow on IG. She has not been at all careful in hiding her identity (and by that token the identity of YC, Lockdown Girl and all her other dates). The photoshoot shots show you pretty much everything, including a lot of her face. She details her job and her travel, and it's not hard to figure out where places are based on all the photos she shares. And I have been left utterly gobsmacked that none of her friends and followers can see the lack of consideration and care for people who have not given permission to be discussed so openly on the Internet. They don't exist for blog fodder/Twitter fodder.
If my senior colleague did this to me, I would be enraged - and I am so upset on his behalf. I had a male boss who wouldn't get the hint, and kept messaging me in a flirty way, setting up projects where we'd have to be together 24/7, orchestrating reasons to have calls or meetings, pretending to be my friend and mentor but making it obvious there was a romantic interest - it caused me so much stress. I felt pressure to accept all his invitations at work because I was worried he'd give me a bad review to the management. I couldn't outright rebuff him as i didn't want to make work awkward and wasn't sure how he'd retaliate, couldn't complain to anyone as it was his word against mine. I even flirted back in the hope he'd be happy with just that and not want more. So I would talk about a bf, other men etc to show that i really wasn't interested. Politely decline all invites to hang out when not on project. No avail. It lasted a year till I had enough and quit. If he had also had a blog and Twitter feed where it was all being made public, I would have gone to the police. So to see people pretending that just because he's a man he's going to be flattered by it, and isn't capable of feeling a bit harassed/uncomfortable - makes me really upset.
Really hope she, and her followers realise how inappropriate her entire Twitter feed and blog has been, and will think about the people they post about. And get their permission (like she did for Charlie) to post about this stuff.