I'm the ONLY one using my real name!

Richard Dower

Look at yáll....with your silly screen names, dunno why people do it, the illusion of privacy and anonymity on the internet has long since past. Maybe in the 90's....but now?

Every program and app has some location service, or GPS or an IP look up. My own story of why I use my real name goes back to '95...but it's sorta boring in present day contexts.

Truncheon Rouge

do go on....

Unregistered.

I don't even on the internet!

PandyAndy

Yea, Richard, do tell us!

Richard Dower

Unregistered. wrote: »

I don't even on the internet!

.com

Pudsy33

I do use my real name, I'm a one eyed teddy bear

Killer Wench

Do people call you Dick? Hey Dickie!

Ihatecuddles-old

Go home Richard, You are drunk.

Richard Dower

Killer Wench wrote: »

Do people call you Dick? Hey Dickie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A5t5_O8hdA

Killer Wench

Dickie dickie doo!

Richard Dower

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

Go home Richard, You are drunk.

Tee Total since April '98........:)

Devia

I thought only paedophiles used their real names on the internet.

Richard Dower

Devia wrote: »

I thought only paedophiles used their real names on the internet.

and celebrities....:)

TheLastMohican

Yes Dave.

spankysue

Hey, I do use my own name, I just shortened it down, Spanktopus Suevius isn't as catchy as spankysue

Devia

Richard Dower wrote: »

and celebrities....:)

or both

Pushtrak

No way would I use my real name here. Instead of thinking should I use my real name here, I'd be more inclined to use a pseudonym on facebook. I haven't done it yet, but every now and then I think it would be good to. I don't want to have potential employers, or any other thing looking me up online, really.

kfallon

Richard Dower wrote: »

Tee Totalboring as fook since April '98........:)

FYP

:P

CianRyan

Richard Dower wrote: »

Look at yáll....with your silly screen names, dunno why people do it, the illusion of privacy and anonymity on the internet has long since past. Maybe in the 90's....but now?

Every program and app has some location service, or GPS or an IP look up. My own story of why I use my real name goes back to '95...but it's sorta boring in present day contexts.

You're wrong.

longshanks

The trouble with Scotland is...























it's full of Scots.

humbert

I don't care if the CIA know who I am, I just don't what the guy interviewing me to do a quick search and see that I'm an angry bitter grouch.

Unregistered.

Richard Dower wrote: »

.com

I accidentally the entire post.

Morag

Richard Dower wrote: »

Look at yáll....with your silly screen names, dunno why people do it, the illusion of privacy and anonymity on the internet has long since past. Maybe in the 90's....but now?

Every program and app has some location service, or GPS or an IP look up. My own story of why I use my real name goes back to '95...but it's sorta boring in present day contexts.

Dude that is you choice but using this name my cousins and neighbors can't connect me to my posts here. The only way they will know if is I post something, they don't have grounds to get the garda to look up my IP to say it's me, so there is a level of privacy and boards won't hand over the info with out the legal request.

Richard Dower

Morag wrote: »

Dude that is you choice but using this name my cousins and neighbors can't connect me to my posts here. The only way they will know if is I post something, they don't have grounds to get the garda to look up my IP to say it's me, so there is a level of privacy and boards won't hand over the info with out the legal request.

Fair enough, I guess it depends on what you "do" on the internet....I don't visit dodgy website or Google "how to build a nuclear bomb" etc. , so i'm rather dull and don't worry about being looked up.

besides if anyone did google me they'd get the general gist that I'm just a douchebag

Richard Dower

PandyAndy wrote: »

Yea, Richard, do tell us!

some moron decided to post my name/address because of some internet feud we got into. so I just cant be arsed hiding.

Shield

Richard Dower wrote: »

Look at yáll....with your silly screen names, dunno why people do it

There are those of us who simply cannot use their real name on here or anywhere. A quick peep at the attachment and there's nothing more to add.

Richard Dower

Shield wrote: »

There are those of us who simply cannot use their real name on here or anywhere. A quick peep at the attachment and there's nothing more to add.

You're a guard and you're afraid you'll get shot?, seriously?....the IRA days are over lad, even the scumbags aren't mad enough to hunt you down using the net to shoot you!

fussyonion

OK I admit it....................my real name is Hugh. Surname is Janus.

Shield

Richard Dower wrote: »

You're a guard and you're afraid you'll get shot?, seriously?....the IRA days are over lad, even the scumbags aren't mad enough to hunt you down using the net to shoot you!

PSNI Constable, and it's open season on us from quite a few directions, and has been for quite a few decades now, which is why we carry our Glocks with us, when both on and off duty.

Harry Deerpark

I'm a fugitive, so using my real name would be silly.

simon0brien

spankysue wrote: »

Hey, I do use my own name, I just shortened it down, Spanktopus Suevius isn't as catchy as spankysue

Cringe x1000

Shield

Harry Deerpark wrote: »

I'm a fugitive, so using my real name would be silly.

Kimble? Dr Richard Kimble? Wait right there. There was no sequel and we believe you know why...

MadMardegan

I'm literally MadMardegan... from Willow

Shield

I'm guessing the 'Cardigan' jokes growing up and going through secondary school were insufferable?

yohan the great

Richard Dower wrote: »

Look at yáll....with your silly screen names, dunno why people do it, the illusion of privacy and anonymity on the internet has long since past. Maybe in the 90's....but now?

Every program and app has some location service, or GPS or an IP look up. My own story of why I use my real name goes back to '95...but it's sorta boring in present day contexts.

That's cos you're a tough ****

Sarky

"Sarky" is how everyone knows me, from the internet friends I've never actually met to my 2 year old nephew. I'd hardly call it hiding.

Are you sure you're not just too unimaginative to have come up with a better user name?

Overheal

Richard Dower wrote: »

You're a guard and you're afraid you'll get shot?, seriously?....the IRA days are over lad, even the scumbags aren't mad enough to hunt you down using the net to shoot you!

And in twenty years?

The internet shows no signs of not being a permanent record of all of your activities. Thats what they try to impress on kids before they take phone pictures of themselves and upload it to places unknown. Very hard to undo.

More likely, Dick, someone can use enough information about you to piece together where you live and your comings and goings. Leaving town for a week? Sure thats grand, chat about places to visit when you're in New Zealand, post on FB to friends and friends of friends that you're not going to be home and come back to a house with a window smashed in and most of your valuables missing, everything from irreplaceable family heirlooms to the high dollar electronics. And the booze!

Thats not even taking into account the lax security you probably implement either. Presumably you use the same login and password for multiple websites, which would be fairly easy to pin to you because you use your real name and not a combination of pseudonyms. One of these logins gets compromised, and since it's the same as your others, all of your accounts get compromised. Losing access to your email account is one of the most crippling types of identity theft there is out there. With access to your email account its a cinch to reset all of your passwords to all of your accounts (and your inbox is a perfect record of where you've signed up accounts and when) and suddenly you're up **** creek, sir.

So, yeah, there are a couple good reasons not to make it plain as day who you are. Don't get me wrong, I've left enough internet breadcrumbs that someone could piece me together as well, and it wouldn't take anybody that was really motivated that terribly long to figure out (but by motivated I mean either I slept with your girlfriend or threatened to kill a state official), but it's convoluted enough that you'd have to be bored to a fairly high degree, and at this point I just expect anyone that has that much energy needs to get a job or adopt a cat.

Gordon

Richard Dower wrote: »

Look at yáll....with your silly screen names, dunno why people do it

You say you don't know why people use screen names, but apparenly you started out using a screen name and then deliberately outed yourself due to hassle.

Richard Dower wrote: »

some moron decided to post my name/address because of some internet feud we got into. so I just cant be arsed hiding.

So just ask yourself why you started out using a screen name, that'll answer your question.

My real name is Gordon.

Richard Dower

Richard Dower wrote: »

Look at yáll....with your silly screen names, dunno why people do it

Well if your real name was Manuel Twococks (a cross I've had to bear all my life) you'd be looking to hide behind an imaginary internet persona as well. :mad:

BBDBB

to be honest, Im of the view that whether the name someone is using is real or fake, is far less important than whether what they have to say is important and worth hearing.

So far Richard...

debabyjesus

My real name is Jesus of Nazareth. Some people call me Jesus Christ.

My internet pseudonym is debabyjesus because I thought it would be less intimidating. Do not be afraid my children.

corktina

wait...some of you aren't using your real names? I did NOT see that coming!

bnt

My real name is boring & generic, so there's no point using it online. My parents both had their names shortened, and tried to give their kids names that couldn't be shortened. I'm not kidding - they told me this - but the result was ... blah.

Hannibal Smith

No, this is my real name too...I love it when a plan comes together

El Horseboxo

I've never used my real name on the internet for anything that is in the public domain. Even my name on fantasy football things and that is an alias.

Was to do with the type of job I wanted and ended up getting. Didn't want me connected to anything on the internet.

mattjack

El Horseboxo wrote: »

I've never used my real name on the internet for anything that is in the public domain. Even my name on fantasy football things and that is an alias.

Was to do with the type of job I wanted and ended up getting. Didn't want me connected to anything on the internet.

Is your real name Elvis Horsebox ?

Shield

stoneill wrote: »

Creepy.

It doesn't matter how many times you tell them.

Trust me.

Cantona's Collars

El Horseboxo wrote: »

I've never used my real name on the internet for anything that is in the public domain. Even my name on fantasy football things and that is an alias.

Was to do with the type of job I wanted and ended up getting. Didn't want me connected to anything on the internet.

You're doing that badly this season? No need to be embarassed.

I could imagine an interview:

"Well Mr.Horseboxo,we have looked at your Fantasy Football history and are afraid it's not up to scratch,we need winners in this job and are afraid you don't fit the bill"

dlofnep

I'm offended at the mere idea that dlofnep isn't a real name. I call for a ban on the OP.

Skerries

dlofnep wrote: »

I'm offended at the mere idea that dlofnep isn't a real name. I call for a ban on the OP.

Crumbs!

Shield

dlofnep wrote: »

I'm offended at the mere idea that dlofnep isn't a real name. I call for a ban on the OP.

Better still... petition for his username to be changed to esuomregnad!