How close are you to your username?

Lioness

Lioness

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I stole this from elsewhere, but it seems relevent.

...How close are you to your username? Do you sometimes think of yourself as your online name? Would you answer to your username in real life?

I use "Lioness" pretty much everywhere in the internet, so it's pretty solidly me. I'd probably answer to it in real life, and when I overhear people talking about the animal, I've gotta remind myself that they're not talking about me :p

So, how about you? How much of "you" is your username, do you use it everywhere, or is it just a handy log in for a wonderful forum ;)
 
I don't participate in anything else where I need an online username other than my real name...if I am at a comp and I hear the word fascination I will generally look around to see if someone is addressing me...but otherwise, no...I do have to remind myself to call others whom I have met on here by their real names, and I am certain I mess that up on occasion
 
Peaches was DH's nickname/pet name for me long before I started dancing and discovered D-F.

I don't know if it's me (as someone put it, I'm a bit too prickly and bitter to be a peach...maybe a pineapple, they're spiky), but it's as real and normal to me as my given name or any of my other nicknames based on my given name. I do answer to it in real life, without a second thought. DH calls me Peaches, Sam (from D-F) calls me Peach, other people from D-F have called me Peaches. My family knows about it, but don't use it (and think it's kind of strange when someone else calls me by that, or when I answer to it.) My coworkers know about it, and from time to time they will try to tease me with it...but I don't think they get that to me it's no different from the shortened version of my real name that they call me every day.
 
Seems to me that going by one's screen name (unless it's one's real name or established nickname) is akin to being addressed as Lord Moldan, Slayer of Trogs or such. Way too much time on the computer in Phantasy Land.

But I don't own an iPad either so maybe I'm just an anachronism.

Wassan The Horrible
 
I find myself "wishing" at times and there is a obvious adorable reasons for the "3 wishes" which I've recently revisited in Texas, although I also have found that DF(ers) tend to call me by the "3Wishes" at the comps because for some reason my true name escapes them. Which is fine...but only for DF(ers) that is.
 
I would most probably turn around if somebody yelled out "LG", not so much the long version though.

And there are certain people here on the boards (like fasc, sam and etp) that their user names are connected to their personalities in my mind more than their real names.
 
Well, seeing as my username is an amalgamation of my first and middle names, I'd say it's pretty intertwined with who I am. It's always amusing when I'm giving out my email address, and they'll be kind of confused (by the second e, they'll try to put an a), until a bystander is like 'you know, as in Megan ELIZABETH...'
Equally amusing are the people on message boards who don't know my name, and automatically call me Liz.

...And yes, I use megeliz(followed by numbers as needed) for pretty much all my current usernames. My real name is FAR too common to be able to use it anywhere online as a username.
 
Many years ago I used to goto meetings with a forum I was a member of... and people always referred to me with my online name! Although it was my nickname at school so nothing new really :)

If people called me by my DF name I'd feel like I have to break out into a routine or something :lol:
 
I've had this name for the last 10 years from my days of playing online games prior to dancing. The only people that would call me by that name are some friends who played with me at that time. Sometimes, when they refer to me by that name, I would give them a perplex look and feel uncomfortable. But, I would still respond as they're directing the conversation towards me.
 
nucat78 said:
Seems to me that going by one's screen name (unless it's one's real name or established nickname) is akin to being addressed as Lord Moldan, Slayer of Trogs or such. Way too much time on the computer in Phantasy Land.

But I don't own an iPad either so maybe I'm just an anachronism.

Wassan The Horrible
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Dear Wassan,
Do you not know me to be Lady Moldan? My Lord, the Slayer of Trogs is deeply offended at your impertinence.
 
I once told somebody who knows me about DF, and that I had posted here. A few days later, "DL" was the first guess.

So, I guess the name doesn't identify me but my alter ego and I are entirely similar.
 
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