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You seem fairly passionate about this, so I wanted to address one particular thing you said in your post..
You don't feel being anonymous is "faking it" in its own way?
No, not really. My real name really is not important at all on the internet. Seriously like who the **** cares!
Like I said, I wouldn't be making any effort to
hide my real name, if it wasn't for the possibility of my family finding out things about me I don't want them to find out. They would consider me a total creep. This is a fact. If I were to reveal my real person to my family, it would be about the same as cutting all ties with them (because I don't want to be around people who think I have mental issues). Mind you, I might actually do something of the kind eventually, but I'm only turning 20 and not even financially independent yet.
Not splashing my name around but not making any effort to hide it either I do not consider faking in the slightest.
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I read this and was much more worried about the "big picture" scenario that you for some reason don't feel you can be yourself, whether it be in real life or on the internet.
People (at least in Estonia??) are
extremely narrow-minded. I have a seemingly unusual personality to begin with, and on top of that I ignore a lot of social rules (I'm confident for an example
you do not, at least not nearly to the extent I do). Because of this, the vast majority of people will consider me somewhere between being a weirdo to being downright crazy. This definitely has its downsides. Not exactly coincidentally I do not mind these downsides nearly as much as the majority of people would, but I am not immune to them. So yes, I can't
really be myself. Some things I hide even on the internet in some places.
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Isn't that a much larger problem? Is anonymous user names on the internet really the right "fix" for the fact that you feel like you can't be yourself?
Give me an alternative?
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If my employer is doing checks that deep and is going to decide my WORK skills based on random hilarity I post on a message board for fun... I'm pretty ok with not working for that employer. I'm damn good at my job, and if that's the criteria they are using, I'm not going to fit in anyways, so it was a good call.
LOL. How many people do you think are able to say the same?
EDIT: Seriously dude, tell me at this moment, with how many of your friends you would feel comfortable finding out
*) what kind porn you jack off to
*) what techniques do you use to jack off
*) that you had a dream about giving a handjob to a dad (assuming you did have one)
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Furthermore, how comfortable would you feel about your family finding out about this?
If the honest answer is that you would feel comfortable then you must be surrounded by creatures from another species than those walking around over here.
Last edited by Vantek; 08-13-2008 at 01:04 PM.