Loss of Anonymity

itsallaboutheL

Was just thinking about the questions that would occur should some of the respectable people i know in RL happen upon some of my posts on this fine site of ours....

some of it most certainly isn't pretty!!

Has anyone ever had someone they know find out their on boards and comment on it!!

Surely it's happened at some stage, quite a few of us have gone some way towards revealing our true identities ( I R Batman). I'm lookin at you Tom , what would MammyBrummy (yore ma) say!!?

laugh

My stalking has gone through the floor since they broke search.

citizen_p

ive thought of it though....knowning of my geek uncool side

because in real life im a super sex machine

i swear....

TPD

Mousey- wrote: »

ive thought of it though....knowning of my geek uncool side

because in real life im a super sex machine

i swear....

Is that your sig in action?

Red Hand

I guess a few people that know me would wonder the hell I am on this site-life is to be lived after all?

Neamhshuntasach

My mates know who i am on this site. A lot of them post here too. And this account is actually used by 2 of my room mates as i'm always logged in on the main computer. I've come across some posts that aren't mine in the past. Never fúcking around though.

Ziggurat

I don't know enough people IRL for that to happen.

citizen_p

The Perfect Drug wrote: »

Is that your sig in action?

never noticed that....actully its a quote. (see super cool i am, i know quotes):rolleyes:


dont see the point in lying on the web....on international sites i just release more information. because on boards there is a chance i might meet somone of boards in real life.

pikachucheeks

My mum stalks my page. She only recently told me.
I joined Boards when I was doing my Leaving Cert, to ask people's advice on a college course I wanted to do.
One day, she was browsing for information of the course on google, got linked to Boards and has followed my Boards life since :P

I've had people I don't know in college and in bars come up to me and address me as pikachucheeks. Perhaps it's weird to say, but it doesn't faze me!

The fact I'm on Boards isn't a secret and I wouldn't try to hide it from anyone. I'm not ashamed of having a profile on Boards or of any of my posts.

GLaDOS

Nobody would be particularly surprised by anything I've posted really

Professey Chin

Plenty know who I am on this.Doesn't bother me really

Novella

Haha! I basically post my whole life on boards, what upsets me, what makes me happy, some really cringey things actually.

One day, as I'm setting off to work, a good friend of mine announces she is joining boards and is going to add me as a friend! I swear I spent that whole shift sifting through a thousand posts in my mind, wondering had I posted anything that would piss her off or anything really embarrassing! :rolleyes:

I raced home to get online to go through my posts and I have to admit, I did edit a few! I can't have my supah cool RL image shattered! :pac:



I hope she never sees this.....

Joey the lips

My RL is even more pathetic than this one so I am safe enough

Only kidding.... The way I figure is never say anthing you dont want the wife knowing. Anything:D

Kiera

I'm actually a lot tamer on boards than real life. The only way they'd cop it was me would be by my pic.

laugh

Kiera wrote: »

The only way they'd cop it was me would be by my pic.

Be a give away alright...

galwayrush

Some people have found out who i am but know better than to post about it,:pac:

itsallaboutheL

pikachucheeks wrote: »

The fact I'm on Boards isn't a secret and I wouldn't try to hide it from anyone. I'm not ashamed of having a profile on Boards or of any of my posts.

I wouldn't say it's a secret for me either but at the same time i wouldn't broadcast it, i know i have friends that lurk here but i wouldn't be worried about anyone under the age of 40 tbh!!

One thing i find strange is having conversations with Boardsies in RL the topic of conversation always reverts back to boards and i've gotten some strange looks from people when they hear us refering to Usernames in public!

rannerap

my bro uses boards but i refuse to add him,if only the search function was down all the time:(

the_syco

Some people in real life know who I am on boards. Either they know me through boards, or they've met me and found out that I was on boards, or they've seen me browsing boards in work/home/LANs/internet cafes/etc...

Sarannewrap wrote: »

my bro uses boards but i refuse to add him,if only the search function was down all the time

You look familiar. Did you work in Vue about 3 years ago?

pikachucheeks

itsallaboutheL wrote: »

I wouldn't say it's a secret for me either but at the same time i wouldn't broadcast it

I don't broadcast that I'm on Boards really, with the exception of mentioning it on college radio recently and speaking about my experiences with it. I didn't discuss my username or any posters, though.

I'd say about 90% of my friends know I'm on Boards. I don't talk about it to certain people though, because they're very against the idea of being social online, with people you don't know.
There's definitely still somewhat of a stigma there.

starbelgrade

itsallaboutheL wrote: »

Was just thinking about the questions that would occur should some of the respectable people i know in RL happen upon some of my posts on this fine site of ours....

What the hell is RL? Rugby League?

pikachucheeks

starbelgrade wrote: »

What the hell is RL? Rugby League?

Awww! The internetz hasn't got you get!

Real Life.

Professey Chin

starbelgrade wrote: »

What the hell is RL? Rugby League?

Real Life

rannerap

the_syco wrote: »

Some people in real life know who I am on boards. Either they know me through boards, or they've met me and found out that I was on boards, or they've seen me browsing boards in work/home/LANs/internet cafes/etc...


You look familiar. Did you work in Vue about 3 years ago?

nope wasnt me:Di did discover that theres a girl who lives near enough me that is my double!its generally who people think is me:P

Red Hand

RL=real life

Where people do fun things together, young men help little old ladies cross the street and I tip my hat at young ladies.

itsallaboutheL

pikachucheeks wrote: »

There's definitely still somewhat of a stigma there.

For good reason too as we know...

I find myself forgetting that people lurk a lot on this aswell, and that i'm not just replying to the people that i want to reply to.

Another thing is that while i have met a lot of the posters/ talk to them outside of boards of my "regular" forum and know that they're all A1 , i sometimes forget that outside of that forum i don't know most posters from Aadam......

Snowie

I've never been that bothered about weather people know me in real life or no that Im on this site...
I dont post pictures of what i look like cleerly because Im a little uncomfortable with people knowing who I am for some daft reason... but other then that any boardy ive meet have been cool.... I've nothing bad to say about any one.

starbelgrade

pikachucheeks wrote: »

Awww! The internetz hasn't got you get!

Real Life.

I must have more of a RL than a VL so.

Sea Sharp

I pretty much threw away my anonymity and in some ways regret it. Now everyone can see my crazy conspiracy theory phase from 2007.

In fairness though, I don really give a f*ck. Yes I make immature masturbation jokes and am interested in things you wouldn't have assumed, so what!!
Also, does anyone reeeeally care what you get up to??

pikachucheeks

itsallaboutheL wrote: »

I find myself forgetting that people lurk a lot on this aswell, and that i'm not just replying to the people that i want to reply to.

I always forget that too! When you're posting in a thread, you feel as though you're just addressing the other posters, when really, what you're saying can be read by anyone with access to the internet. The circle is much wider than you think.

At the end of the day though, I don't mind because I only post what I'm willing to share and what I'm willing to put out there. There's often big serious debates on Boards about abortion, international relations etc ... I'd never offer my personal opinion on any of those topics, because I keep some things private, there's some topics I don't want to debate or discuss on a public forum, which anyone can access.

The_B_Man

I'm not a real person.

I'm a sophisticated posting machine sent back in time to harvest information for the government, who predict the apocalypse was brought on by a certain poster in AH.

4zn76tysfajdxp

starbelgrade wrote: »

You can't change the future, only your past.

You can say that again!

fergalr

http://xkcd.com/137/

starbelgrade

Camdyn Savory Dough wrote: »

You can say that again!

What I said was said & cannot be unsaid.

Parsley

a few of my friends stalk my training log a bit but they're not boards users at all. don't know how they found out i had one actually now that i think of it!

and yeah L i know what ya mean about the strange looks talking about people's usernames. maybe they think all our friends just have class nicknames..?

itsallaboutheL

Parsley wrote: »

and yeah L i know what ya mean about the strange looks talking about people's usernames. maybe they think all our friends just have class nicknames..?

Well it's better than them knowing they don't even exist 'cept on the net!! LOL, i'm actually in Drifters phonebook as L, come to think of it you're in mine as Parsley!!

grenache

I know nobody on boards and nobody knows me. ~ Best way to have it.

itsallaboutheL

grenache wrote: »

I know nobody on boards and nobody knows me. ~ Best way to have it.

What happens at the beers!!?

Parsley

itsallaboutheL wrote: »

Well it's better than them knowing they don't even exist 'cept on the net!! LOL, i'm actually in Drifters phonebook as L, come to think of it you're in mine as Parsley!!

i changed it that night in cissie's and you insisted on changing it back ya plank!

itsallaboutheL

Parsley wrote: »

i changed it that night in cissie's and you insisted on changing it back ya plank!

starbelgrade

grenache wrote: »

I know nobody on boards and nobody knows me. ~ Best way to have it.

I can see your cookies.

4zn76tysfajdxp

itsallaboutheL wrote: »

What happens at the beers!!?

Parsley wrote: »

i changed it that night in cissie's and you insisted on changing it back ya plank!

itsallaboutheL wrote: »

Okay, leave the flirty stuff there please.

Saibh

Have only told 1 person that I post here - no one has ever said to me ah you post on Boards, so looks like I'm anonymous on Boards.

grenache

itsallaboutheL wrote: »

What happens at the beers!!?

Edit: Best way to have it, for now.

starbelgrade wrote: »

I can see your cookies.

Pervert

itsallaboutheL

Camdyn Savory Dough wrote: »

Okay, leave the flirty stuff there please.

But ... But... But... we lost our anonymity to each other....:pac:

Crumble Froo

fergalr wrote: »

http://xkcd.com/137/

love it! got that printed out and up on the wall beside my computer at work.

ive discovered a couple of people i know from real life on here, which has been kinda weird but alright.

brendansmith

starbelgrade wrote: »

What the hell is RL? Rugby League?

Real life

FlutterinBantam

You are fast Brenno:cool:

Reeeal fast.

MagicMarker

My job know who I am, that's a good thing, right? :eek:

Other than that, there's only a few people who know me personally.

Heisenberg.

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Aodan83

Most of my friends are aware I post on Boards, but have no interst in it themselves (heathens that they are!!), so I'm safe enough there. One or two post more than I do though, but their cool. Don't think I really have anything to say that would shock anyone though.