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Post by Spell on Apr 12, 2012 12:10:41 GMT -5
I always wonder about this. Do you let people know about your online life and that you go by a different name?
For the most part I keep the two lives separate other than occasionally bringing up something I heard online to someone in RL. I'm pretty sure only my sister knows I go by "Spell" online. I might be a little embarrassed if someone at work was like "LOL SPELL! HAHAH". I almost said "What?" when someone said "spell" before. @_@
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Post by Rina on Apr 12, 2012 12:27:49 GMT -5
I don't really have the option to? I mean, I literally do not talk to/hang out with/see anyone except for old friends of mine, when I babysit their little siblings once in a while. They definitely know I'm Rina, because they're the ones who gave me that name. x)
I must post about it on Facebook, I suppose? I don't really care, simply because I have no one who I care about "irl" who would see it on there. My mom and sister obviously know, ahaha. My sister calls me Rina (well, Reens) instead of my real name, and my mom has used them both.
I don't know if I count, though. ^^; "Rina" is as much of a second name as it is an online alias. If I was called something like... uh... Spiritpaw (lolwhichIwas) then I wouldn't mention it. At all. I'd be too embarrassed. -cough-
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Post by Catbaloo on Apr 12, 2012 13:19:01 GMT -5
My other half knows a couple of my usernames but he's dyslexic and tends to avoid reading if he can so I know I'm fairly safe from snooping there. My dad knows my catbaloo name from my email and my World of Warcraft characters but I don't talk about what forums I'm on. (Petz forums are known as "a gaming forum I go to" lol) I prefer to keep RL and Internet stuff separate. I even tend to have different usernames for different interests to keep them separate.
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Post by midnightwolf on Apr 12, 2012 14:26:03 GMT -5
Just my wife. xD
Esp. for petz. xD We even refer to it as "that game you/I play" around other people. The most my wife does is reads PUGS chat when she's coding. xD
But with MMOs my whole family and 99% of our friends know our names and stuff. I don't use midnightwolf for those. Midnightwolf is for just... random things I sign up for. Things I wouldn't run down the street saying "I'M MIDNIGHTWOLF ON RKC PETZ" xD
But I also prefer to keep my online/rl life separate. My wife tended to blend her online and real life together and got some creepy stalker guy that somehow ended up with my phone number and called me looking for her. "Umm nope. She's in another country."
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Post by Neco on Apr 12, 2012 14:32:24 GMT -5
I use Neco as my online handle EVERYWHERE... so if people game with me online and I know them in real life, then they know I am Neco lol.
I used to be really close friends with someone and since we both had the same name, we'd just call each other by our online handles... made it less confusing for all parties involved haha. Now that her and I don't hang out anymore, everyone just calls me by real name and it's so boring :c
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Post by Silver on Apr 12, 2012 14:36:10 GMT -5
Outside of my siblings and parrents, no one knows, it's never really come up before and I don't have zillions of RL friends anyway. I do not tell anyone about Petz lol I love it! But it looks really weird to someone who has never seen it before and it's hard to explain so yeah no.
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Post by Alex@Marvel on Apr 12, 2012 14:38:15 GMT -5
Well, if they gave it some thought, most of my real life friends could figure out my handle of Spottedscar for Warriors RP. A good chunk of real life already know it and why I have it, though.
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Post by Catbaloo on Apr 12, 2012 14:55:13 GMT -5
Things I wouldn't run down the street saying "I'M MIDNIGHTWOLF ON RKC PETZ" xD Oh but you should! XD
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Post by Alex@Marvel on Apr 12, 2012 14:57:28 GMT -5
^ We should organize a day for when everyone on rkc steps out of their house and runs down the street screaming their names.
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Post by Spell on Apr 12, 2012 15:31:18 GMT -5
I've given up trying to explain Petz to people. I have a few friends who've said "Oh yeah I've played that before" but as of right now no one knows how obsessed I am with it. XD My sister used to play it with me and my dad calls it "That dog game that made you change the date on the computer". (oh the days before petza!) I usually just call the PC "an animal forum I belong to" and I've mentioned to a couple of them that I moderate a site.
A loooot of people know I am obsessed with the computer though. I can't only wonder what they think I'm doing. >>
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Post by Vanilla on Apr 12, 2012 16:21:05 GMT -5
LOL for the most part, no XD My closer friends know, and my family knows(maybe because I've played the game since I was 6?), but for the most part it never comes up, so most people don't even know XD
~Vanilla
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Post by thedrowsydeer on Apr 12, 2012 18:27:54 GMT -5
Noooooo! They'd be like, O.o; "You play with computer pixels?" xD
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Post by Aurawolf on Apr 12, 2012 18:34:57 GMT -5
^ Yeppp. That's why only my good friend knows. xD My online life doesn't come up in discussion with my family really. So it's not that big of a deal. xD I do have my furry friends that call me Aura, because that's my fursona's name. But that's about it.
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Post by jesi @ shotglass on Apr 12, 2012 18:51:17 GMT -5
my bf & family know about petz. but my friends don't. none of them spend time on the computer, so we never talk about computer games or anything. i don't really care if people know. it's a game. it's silly, but i don't see any reason to be embarrassed by it.
also, i use the same username for everything. it's always been "jesi840". & since everyone calls me "jes" or "jesi" irl, my username isn't really anything weird. the 840 part was just some random number i picked out when i was first creating an email address when i was 10 or 11. lol
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Post by Dani @ Caradobe on Apr 12, 2012 20:53:39 GMT -5
^ We should organize a day for when everyone on rkc steps out of their house and runs down the street screaming their names. ^^ This. ^^ "You play with computer pixels?" xD Haha, that's what I call petz when I talk about them!! I just tell people I show "pixel dogs" and have a "pixel kennel"
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