I find this practice of using monikers on internet forums unsettling.
When I first got interested in email, I wanted to be THE PHANTOM. Unfortunately, there were already a couple hundred PHANTOMs out there. Well, I didn't want to be PHANTOM191. I wanted to be the only PHANTOM. I tried all kinds of names that I thought no one would already have, and ultimately settled on sibleypeck. As far as I know, I'm the only sibleypeck. But sibleypeck isn't real.
A couple years ago, frustrated by the pantheon of internet egos run amok - a practice encouraged by the use of fictitious character names, I thought I would use my real name on the internet. It just seemed that everybody I came into contact with on the internet was fake. Some got real ugly when the masks came off. I don't know what's more unnerving; the absence of original thought, or worn out rhetoric.
When I first got interested in email, I wanted to be THE PHANTOM. Unfortunately, there were already a couple hundred PHANTOMs out there. Well, I didn't want to be PHANTOM191. I wanted to be the only PHANTOM. I tried all kinds of names that I thought no one would already have, and ultimately settled on sibleypeck. As far as I know, I'm the only sibleypeck. But sibleypeck isn't real.
A couple years ago, frustrated by the pantheon of internet egos run amok - a practice encouraged by the use of fictitious character names, I thought I would use my real name on the internet. It just seemed that everybody I came into contact with on the internet was fake. Some got real ugly when the masks came off. I don't know what's more unnerving; the absence of original thought, or worn out rhetoric.