Do people feel funny about others using their real names?
 

so many times i've seen on accyweb that people instead of saying the screen name use the real name

on some forums people be incredibly protective of their real name when ppl accidently mention it yet it doesnt seem to bother alot of ppl on here

would you be bothered if someone typed in ur real name on here?

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Do'nt bother me-it's just a sign in name if everyone called pete signed in as pete you would not know who you were talking to-but with Benipete you still do not know- easy as that.:hehetable

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nah, no problem for me ,just a question of familiarity , though I have wondered (never having the chance to attend one) what do Accy web users call each other at the monthly meets , are name tags issued to first timers ? .....I suppose new attendees introduce themselves by their screen names .
Guess it depends how well you know the person , anytime I have used the PM feature I allways sign off with my "Christian/given" name and those who have PM'd me have done the the same.
Seems at times Accy web could come across as a bit 'incestuous' or 'mafia like' (kick one and your kicking twenty) or intimidating to a new user, but I put that down to the majority of users being familiar to other frequent users quirks, (wether they know them personnally or not) ,which is understandable, but its never come across as a problem for me , and new users allways seem to recieve a warm welcome.

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I have no issue with my real name, entwisi is my online identity in that its a name no one else uses anywhere so I can always keep teh same name. If you see entwisi anywhere its me :D

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No wouldn't bother me at all.

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i get called shaz and nida on here anyway, they are both my niknames, doesnt bother me who knows me or who knows my name, most people cant pronounce Shanida anyway :D;)

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Must admit it doesnt really bother me - though I dont use my full real name in here anyway

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Bitch, see I can :p

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I'm not bothered about people knowing my name, in fact I actually published it on here after 2006 local elections. It apears that a lot of people on here know each other, whether its through going to the monthly meets I don't know, as I've never been. personally I know very few, Neil Rindi, Gayle, Cyfr after that very few.

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I have no problems with people knowing my real name on here, although Margaret Rothwell and myself did exchange a few anxiouss pm's when someone I'd upset said they were coming over to the U.K., to hunt down those who's 'dissed' him.

Occassionally I do long for the mysterious anonymity that members like Acyrlic-bob have on here, but thinking about it I've got too big a mouth, and have given to many clues as to who I am, if people were really that interested in knowing.

Plus, if I'd never met a lot of you at the meets, my life would be so less richer, as I've made some great friends on here.:)

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couldn't care less, if some do thats fine as well dont bother me in the slightest, met quite a few at meets n still call most their usernames, not cos there bothered cos its bloody hard work remembering who is who.:D

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It doesn't bother me. Flashy regularly uses my real name on here, and I always sign off PM's with it.

Oh its Laurie by the way!! :)

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The Thing is Rindi if you upset some people they'll shoot your ducks and Geese:D

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....or send you a very nice letter, inviting you round for a brew, after a spat in the letters page of the local press.:D

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And there was me thinking that it was elephants that never forget:rolleyes::D

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I'm more Dumbo than Rambo, though I am blessed with a good memory.

I will call for a brew one of these days.

Coffee, white, no sugar.:D

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Well, I guess I have to answer NO to that one...seeing as I use my real name for my accyweb persona.

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I had typed in a pseudonym and then used google autofill - didn't notice that doing that had made changes

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Kettles on, Glad you said coffee, we don't do tea at my gaff:D

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Tell you what Margaret that google autofill don't half drop you in it some times:rolleyes:

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I guess the answer a no from me too !:rolleyes:

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User name or real name, I don’t care which. After all I chose my user name and my parents gave me my real name.

What I don’t like is people abbreviating either. I view it as a discourtesy and as a general rule I ignore their posts when they do.

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lol do i? :eek:

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and you dont even realise!

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that comes with having blonde brain cells mani ;)

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Just as interesting, I suppose, is why people use the pen names they do. The first time I popped on Accy web it said sign on with a name; I hadn't a clue what name to use, but looked out the window and lo and behold: the Tea Building Shoreditch. With a slight change, that did the trick.

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It's weird when people whom I have never met use my Christian name, but I don't exactly have sleepless nights over it.

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Its easier to type jen than shillelagh in the chatroom ........ plus hardly anyone ever spells it right anyway. Why shillelagh id been playing some records for mum and one of them was called shillelagh and shamrocks by bing crosby (for all those nosy enough to wonder who its by) and i couldnt think up a name so used shillelagh seeing as its a play on my last name as well. So thats why im shillelagh..........

So no im not bothered if you use my proper name rather than m y user name. Mind you i tell everyone to use jen anyway.

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Ah thats it flashy, we'd never have known:D

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Free cookie to the first person to guess my real name... :p

In short, no it doesn't bother me, I mean there are so many Sams it would be pretty hard to identify me off name alone - then again if someone really wanted to I guess they could find out exactly who I am picking up on clues left in posts...meh.

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I think I would probably have to answer no to this question, it doesn't bother me, I am new here compared to many, but have met a few nice people in person, and quite a few know me, what I do for a living and where I work, not much chance of anonimity for me!

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Where do you work, Albert?

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I cant say it bothers me if people use my real name, its not hard to guess with my screen name anyway (which is also a nickname ive been known by for years anyway, that and Em)

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See! sussed out!:D

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yep, me again, go on, keep searching.................

I think you will find that that site is just trying to index usenet, something I used to use a lot and something I still use regularly

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my name came from joining to post in the stanley section and that I live in harwood!!

People who are none stanley from off here often call me red, but stanley people call me mostly by my real name Lesley or when someone I don't know at a match wants to spook me they just shout over "Harwood red"...now that gets me :o

But as I have just posted my name above, no I don't mind my real name being used

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never realised you could put yer own name when i joined, cashman was 1st thing that came into my head,cos a few have called me that, cos i always paid in cash,dont like cheques,cards etc n only use em if no other option.

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Dont bother me either . although does get confusin in chatroom because of all the mels ..........

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I don't mind my name being used, and I dont really see it as a big problem if someone brings it up. I hate having an argument online though and the person your arguing with using your real name as if its proving something.

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i remmeber early on the net's life people were very cautious about puttin up their pics etc on the net

now with things like facebook they're 10 to a dozen

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Thats why you get called mel, slinks gets slinks, accymel got accy or it went mel 1 and mel 2 :D

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my screen name is my name, not my age though haha i woundt mind stay at the age of 25 , there is no many yolandas in lancashire anyway, and its yolanda not yolande i hate when people call me yolande

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Rumplestiltskin?

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Then you will understand my objections to certain individuals who deliberately mis-name me.

A typo I can accept but deliberately mis-naming a person is just crass ignorance. It’s the sort of behaviour that belongs in a Kindergarten and so do the people who perpetrate such a discourtesy.

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personally i think its pathetic objecting to abbreviated names, could understand if it was insulting but owt else just pathetic, IMHO.

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Oh yeah i get mad when people call me yolande, simply cuz it was my mum who choose my name and she is english and she can say it right, so why can the rest not say it righ, i dont mind when people call me yo if its easier for them but i hate yolande:rolleyes:

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The thing is if they're insulting me then they're leaving everybody else alone, and anyway I'm think skinned and can take it http://content.sweetim.com/sim/cpie/...s/0002006E.gif

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It is even more pathetic, lazy, disrespectful and insulting to call someone by a name other than their own.

Would you ask your greengrocer for a pound of CP’s?

Would you call your boss by his initials or his abbreviated name to his face, unless it was the norm?

This whole issue is a puerile sub-conscious attempt to try and establish an infantile superiority over the person you name. Old fashioned foremen would often mis-name a new employee as a means of establishing who is boss. Tradesmen would also employ the same tactic when addressing their apprentices.

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Have you ever thought that we abbreviate your name in an affectionate way?

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Doesn't bother me either. Only difference with my name and my user name is that on here the H is not added. Reason is that i didn't realise i'd not put the H on until after i registered.

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:rofl38::rofl38:

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I once, in affection, called a member on this forum 'Jim Bitty', inspired by that sterling BBC programme, Little Britain.

I'm not sure how well it went down.

Probably not as well as Mummy's milk.

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Your saying daft things again.

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Kneel, Blazer's always saying daft things.:D

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its stuff like this that reminds me of Capitan Mainwairing (sp?) in Dads Army and his famous quote ........"you stupid boy " :D

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the only person trying to be superior to everyone is you from where i'm standing.:rolleyes:

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Hey theres only one person whos allowed to be superior on this .........










and it aint me!!!!

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i dont mind personally -you can cll me lisa OR lis - eh jim?

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He'll call you keetah, young man, and you'd better get used to the idea.

(Just as I'm getting used to the idea you're a girl, called Lisa.):D

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lol that tickled me :D

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my old general manager used to say to me how come everyone u meet u automatically reduce their name and call em something else eg Liz instead of elizabeth etc and how they might not like it

i now know the answer - cause i wanted to be more superior than them.

so from here on forth i shall rename all accyweb members cause i'm superior. no one shall be their usual name now.

YOU WILL RESPECT MY AUTHORITYYYYYYYY!!

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Well I call him JB out of affection even if everyone else thinks he's a bum hole. You're all so unfair to JB. He only tries to express his opinions and you just make him feel really small an unloved.

Funnily enough though that's how he makes me feel too so you can pick on him all you like for all I care.

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Sorry, so very late to these threads!:(

However, I am very uncomfortable with people having any inkling of my real name. I am quite content with people knowing as little about my private /personal life as possible. I fear visits and retribution.

Hugs and Kisses,

Brian Edward Atkin (but pronounced: Throat Warbler Mangrove)
9215 Smokey Mountain Lane
Culpeper, Virginia
Wife: Cynthia Rose (Briggs) Atkin
Daughter: Annie Victoria Atkin (18 years old)
Son: Joshua James Atkin (15 years old)
2 dogs, 3 cats, 2 dwarf hamsters with babies, 4 painted tutles,
9 guineas, 18 chickens, too many fish

But shhhhhhh, don't tell any strangers!:p

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yer secrets safe wi mi brian:D;)

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take no notice LYankee cashy has been known to let things slip:D:hehetable

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Geez Cashy, my "secrets is safe wi [you]" and then you go and use my real name:eek:. No more chewin' tobacci for you next trip over!;):p

Throat Warbler Mangrove

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ignore jaysay, he don't know were mates.:D;)

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I signed myself in as West Ender as it seemed appropriate at the time. As I left the Accrington area 45 years ago there seemed small chance anyone would know me anyway.

Anyway my name is Cath (short for Catherine but I've never been called by my full name) and I'm quite happy to be called by my name, my pseudonym or, well, anything so long as it's decent.

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You forgot the Latino sweated labour you keep in the barn. ;)

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I didn't want anyone to know my real name Maximillian Rupert Quentin and Dave was the first one I thought of. :rolleyes:

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i would have thought Dingle Dave had a nice ring to it:D

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Obviously it don't bother me none::gooddog: (That's Canadian English, eh):D