On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Charles Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:10 AM, rene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > rene wrote: > > > I am Rene ... How can you know? You have to trust me. > > But that trust works both ways, by deliberately obfuscating your > identity, you created the impression that you were unwilling to trust > us.
It's also the reason I personally use my real name online. It's a way for me to say "you can trust me." -- Charles You hit the nail on the head Charles. ...and most people, by default, DO use their real names on the internet, on their blogs, with their email ids...until a bad experience for themselves or for someone known to them makes them change. I was mohandeepa on Skype until I got hit on by Hormone Harries, when I changed to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Where I feel safe, I do use my own name. On my blog, I used a variation of my name until I felt secure enough, and then have had no problems with using my own identity. The average Joe or Joanna (and the above-average ones that I know, too) seem to be comfortable "in their own skins". If at all, they might use a nickname or an associated name, but deliberately submerging one's identity in another...that's something that would make me, as a normally open person, rather uncomfortable. I haven't put this quite as well as Charles does....but I think it's "I yam what I yam". It's open..and simple. Dedeepaed (Indeed Deepa.) > > > va created the imagination, that at/around Dinesh there is a bunch of > > people which mixup there identities. I pointed out that > > 1) there is no indication of that, only mistrust in those people who > > claimed to write an email. > > That seems like an obvious consequence. > > It is precisely because of the fragility of email addresses as > indication of identity that deliberately breaking that association > causes such an strong reaction. > > It's also the reason I personally use my real name online. It's a way > for me to say "you can trust me." > > -- Charles > >
