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| View Poll Results: Real names or FOrum names is a meeting | |||
| Real names.......too embarressed to use Forum Names |
   
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22 | 40.74% |
| Forum Names.....why the hell not..so long as it was easy to pronunce |
  
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32 | 59.26% |
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20-05-2004, 12:30 PM
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Real Life Forum Meetings.....
Always wanted to ask this....
IF you met up with a load of people from a Forum Board, be it Hexus or other (if there ARe any other)  would you use REAL NAMES or FORUM NAMES   |
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20-05-2004, 12:32 PM
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'ave it.
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Originally Posted by Zak33
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20-05-2004, 12:33 PM
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not allowed....one or the other...stop teasing
 I for example dont mind being called Zak at all...to me Knox will ALWAYS be Knox.....as will Dakky....in fact....Dakky IS DAKKY to his family I understand. XTR is a pain in the arse and therefore I must use his real name....but TiG and Moby and Tumble all suit them a treat...and I shall be using them (as I already do)
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20-05-2004, 12:36 PM
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Why not?
They're just nicknames after all. My screen name is Angus - because that's what everybody calls me anyway (my first name is actually James). I can't see why it shouldn't be the other way. |
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20-05-2004, 12:38 PM
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I use forum names... too dumb to remember real names....
Though Mrs. Dak, if I ever met her, would be a bit of a mouthful... hang on... I didn't mean it to sound like that ..... 
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20-05-2004, 12:40 PM
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Hehe, never met people IRL from forums, but I have from an MMORPG I played years ago - Ultima Online.
You can't help but feel a little silly calling each other by your game-names, but you are just so used to it when you've been communicating through that method for over a year LOL  "Rygil - meet Zathras, Amber - this is Nightblade and Spriggan..." You tend to talk quietly in the pub too, or people give you really strange looks when you talk about killing other people, casting magic spells and looting monsters
There is no IRL... only AFK
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20-05-2004, 12:41 PM
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We've had lots and lots of meets on Tangent21, and eventually as you get to know each other you call each other by your real names (but mine is pretty much my real name anyway lol).
Originally Posted by silent ben
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20-05-2004, 12:46 PM
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either / or, not fussed, I get called Fox offline and Grey online, doesn't bother me, aslong as i am not being called t*@t or f*^k face or something
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20-05-2004, 12:50 PM
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^-- I'm with stupid --^
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Don't think learning my name is much of a problem
First name is the only way to communicate with ppl as far as i'm concerned. Either that or there 'well' known nickname, e.g to my mates i am just 'Wilko' and it sounds weird to get called anything different by some of them.
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20-05-2004, 12:54 PM
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I am the same Tom, I have been called Fox since the age of 5 (my surname) I am so used to it that when people use my first name I tend to forget its my name and it seems as if I am ignoring them
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20-05-2004, 01:00 PM
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Yeah i should imagine forum names at first followed by real names if you got to know them better in real life. Most peoples' online names are nicely pronouncable as for those that are not, I never want to meet them
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20-05-2004, 01:05 PM
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Forum name probably, unless it was something stupid like ULTIMATE_KILLER or erm (raz). Afterall, its the name I know them by, regardless of their real name
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20-05-2004, 01:09 PM
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Dorum name to start then real name once u get to know them...I had fun one time when i met sum1 off a forums and they called me Falcon, I was with a mate who i met in school where nobody knew me by my online "persona" the look on his face was of utter confusin, and when i responed to it as naturaly as i respon to Paul (My real name) his face was a picture I'll never forget
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20-05-2004, 01:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Grey M@a
same here, from about 6 years old my mates started to call me Rolly (my real names Aaron) i moved away about 10 years ago,now everyone round here calls me Aaron,whereas if i go back "home" everyone still calls me Rolly.(and i'm now 34)
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