Whatever happened to lying? In your scenario do they cross reference your information somehow to make sure you're using your real name?
Yes, Maybe, Yes.
I really don't care if my real name is used, anything I say online, I don't mind being associated with, I'm not one of those gits who hides behind online anonymity. If I was paying for a service and I was getting some use out of their online forum, I'd keep doing so no matter whether my name was used or not. Free forums, who knows, it depends on how much enjoyment I got out of it, I may stay or move on depending.
Yes, Maybe, Yes.
I really don't care if my real name is used, anything I say online, I don't mind being associated with, I'm not one of those gits who hides behind online anonymity. If I was paying for a service and I was getting some use out of their online forum, I'd keep doing so no matter whether my name was used or not. Free forums, who knows, it depends on how much enjoyment I got out of it, I may stay or move on depending.
I'm not personally embarassed or hiding from people (like my husband or Mom) knowing my opinions and views. . . so that doesn't occur to me.
What I say online is what I feel and think - there's no difference. There's also no difference forum to forum. I am the same - my ID changes.
With me, my ID never changes, I don't think I've used a different handle (or significantly different, in cases where it was taken) in decades. I use it more out of habit than caring about anonymity.
[Stemming from the thread about Blizzard using everyone's real-life names]
But don't weirdos follow you around?
I did that when I had a business - and aside from my ex's wife finding me and harassing me - I had other people follow me around and start drama. It did that on 3 forums and my website - and that's when I stopped being like that. It was just strange.
My husband opened a social networking account (either facebook or myspace, I can't remember; I don't use either one) about a year ago, using his real name.
Almost immediately, unsavory people from our shared past began popping out of the woodwork; people we gave up everything to get away from ten years ago. Dope fiends, crackheads, criminals, homeless squatter kids.
It was unbelievable. I couldn't believe they were still alive, let alone online.
Really, it was just one of them who found him, but that one was connected to all the others, and so pretty soon they'd all found him and started contacting him.
I insisted he close the account.
Honestly. We didn't give up everything, break our lease, destroy our credit, and flee from our own apartment- which had turned into a drug den- like thieves in the night just to invite these idiots back into our lives a decade later, no matter how normal they are now.
What part of "social networking" did he not understand when he opened the account? Was it the "social", as in person to person interaction, or was it the "networking", as it connecting with everyone else alive on Earth?
I don't know, it just seems silly to broadcast yourself when you want a private life.
He's not from this state.
He wanted his family- which is scattered across the US- to find him.
It never occurred to him, any more than it did to me, that those people would still be alive, that they'd remember his first and last name (most of them just went by weird nicknames; we never knew most of their real names, or if we did I don't remember), that they'd have internet access, that they'd seek him out.
They were part of a different era, when computers didn't exist (I mean, they existed, but not in our world).
He just never thought they'd be on there, or that they'd look him up and contact him, I guess.
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