tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380804.post111311228519748450..comments2023-09-19T19:45:50.854+12:00Comments on Spanblather: pseudonym echoSpanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16896745511007816190noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380804.post-1113903381153202852005-04-19T21:36:00.000+12:002005-04-19T21:36:00.000+12:00I must say I'm the other way round J.( I feel weir...I must say I'm the other way round J.( I feel weird calling you Span).<BR/><BR/>When I see an anonymous comment or pseudonym I discount the views expressed to some degree, as the comments of someone without the conviction to stand by them.<BR/><BR/>I have never used a pseudonym and never will. As for my name it is of no consequence if people have heard of it or not, it is not going to change.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380804.post-1113822291891584222005-04-18T23:04:00.000+12:002005-04-18T23:04:00.000+12:00I use a nym mainly because I got into the habit wh...I use a nym mainly because I got into the habit when I first went online - and now I've been using it for so long that for all pratical purposes it is my real name. My friends use it, my family use it, there are people I've known for years in the flesh who know me by no other tag. Why change?<BR/><BR/>It's not as if anybody would know me from Adam anyway...Idiot/Savanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08993069909613708957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380804.post-1113806686369212662005-04-18T18:44:00.000+12:002005-04-18T18:44:00.000+12:00i do find though that some people are quite differ...i do find though that some people are quite different online than in person. i can think of a specific example of someone i know on a discussion board who is very outgoing online but very quiet and introverted in person. <BR/><BR/>and then there are those like The Whig and Nick Kelly who can be positively venomous online but are generally not like that in person (Blair used to be more like his online personality when he was drunk, I haven't seen him in person for a long time, so maybe he's changed?). Perhaps it's the removal from actual personal contact - you don't see the person's body language when you verbally hit them so you don't feel guilty.<BR/><BR/>on another point, do you think there are valid security reasons, particularly for women bloggers, to use pseudonyms? sometimes i think yes, sometimes i think no...Spanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16896745511007816190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380804.post-1113764211656050722005-04-18T06:56:00.000+12:002005-04-18T06:56:00.000+12:00Back in my youngerr days I liked the idea that you...Back in my youngerr days I liked the idea that you could create your own identity on the net - no longer constrained by, well, reality. You could make yourself into some manner of shining internet god, even if you were an unemployed beardo with limited social skills (which I was when I started my first web-projects).<BR/><BR/>(And no I'm not like that any more. I have a job now...)<BR/><BR/>These days I've realsised that all that was a load of wank, and I use a nom-de-wankery for simple matters of pragmatism: My students are more computer savvy than I am, and if they should happen to surf across something I've done, I'd rather that they continued on their merry way unawares, instead of saying "Hey, look who that it - can't wait to spread this around school..."Apathy Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04665899730591411188noreply@blogger.com