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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on September 16, 2014, 09:24:23 AM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025543180
marym625 (664 posts) Tue Sep 16, 2014, 08:13 AM
Just curious why so few people use their real names.
I went to respond to a very kind DU email I received and couldn't even use a name to address the person who wrote it. It made me check my own profile. I do have the city I live in and my first name. I didn't have my last name but only because I didn't realize what showed up when I first registered for DU. I have updated it to show my last name too.
I completely understand that there are circumstances that would cause a person to act with caution and use a handle.
If you have a job that you can't give your political opinion, for example, would be at the top of the list. Maybe if you're a hacktavist. But even then, as long as you're not advertising that in posts, what's the point?
Just seems odd to me that the majority of posters not only use a handle but don't put a name, even a first name, in their profile. This seems to be the reality of most social media, at least when political posts are the majority of what is posted.
I have been online since the 80s. Have posted on and off in various social media sites since the early 90s. Though I have, on occasion, used "Marym625," like I do here, or other handles, like I do on twitter, "LiberalHDWoman" I also use my real name in my profile.
Makes me think people are ashamed of their political believe. Sort of like being in the closet for LGBT people.
I would appreciate any responses to this subject.
real name--alleged--of primitive deleted so as to protect her privacy
brooklynite (16,720 posts) Tue Sep 16, 2014, 08:21 AM
3. I maintain anonymity because of my political connections...
I talk to a lot of elected officials, candidates and political people you read about in the news, and I'm not always comfortable talking about what they tell me if it could get traced back.
^^^finds that an eminently valid reason, although the Brooklyn primitive's one of very few primitives entitled to use the excuse.
Most of the other primitives are just unreasonably paranoid.
FrodosPet (2,234 posts) Tue Sep 16, 2014, 08:21 AM
4. Unfortunately, there are people whose idea of political discourse is to try and damage others
They will use that info to track down employers, friends and associates, etc. Then they will use lies and statements stripped of context to try and destroy others that they disagree with.
^^^yeah, that.
I refer one to the ways and means used by the scammers during the Scamdal of 2005, to lie about those who thought open and honest fund-raisers a good thing.
NYC_SKP (61,434 posts) Tue Sep 16, 2014, 08:23 AM
5. It's the Internet, there are crazy people who would be willing to try to ruin a career.
Many of us might not have a worry, but others might be public figures or otherwise hold jobs that could be jeopardized by the exposure of our political beliefs.
It's not about shame so much as awareness of the evil that others might do.
A certain website/board invests a remarkable amount of effort in identifying DU members.
If a person here was, for example, gay or transsexual and held a job in public education, they might prefer that their identity on this board be kept private.
It's kind of a big deal!
I'm reminded of a phrase that I think relates well to the issue: "If you have nothing to hide then you won't mind being searched..."
We might have nothing to hide, it doesn't matter, our privacy is still invaluable.
:yawn:
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Well, there is nothing wrong with just doing it because one's real name simply isn't any Tom, Dick, or Harry's business, and isn't relevant or necessary to the discussion.
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What's wrong with addressing the DUmmie with.......
Dear Dingbat DUmbass DUmmie;
Yours Truly
Johnny Rebel Rightwing
Rightwing is my American indian name.
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NYC_SKP (61,434 posts) Tue Sep 16, 2014, 08:23 AM
5. It's the Internet, there are crazy people who would be willing to try to ruin a career.
Many of us might not have a worry, but others might be public figures or otherwise hold jobs that could be jeopardized by the exposure of our political beliefs.
It's not about shame so much as awareness of the evil that others might do.
A certain website/board invests a remarkable amount of effort in identifying DU members.
If a person here was, for example, gay or transsexual and held a job in public education, they might prefer that their identity on this board be kept private.
It's kind of a big deal!
I'm reminded of a phrase that I think relates well to the issue: "If you have nothing to hide then you won't mind being searched..."
We might have nothing to hide, it doesn't matter, our privacy is still invaluable.
Paging txradioguy! Please pick up the red phone, Dragoon!
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Paging txradioguy! Please pick up the red phone, Dragoon!
NHSparky too, and I dunno who else, how many else, although it's a large number.
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NHSparky too, and I dunno who else, how many else, although it's a large number.
On the national stage: Joe the Plumber
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I'm not buying the brooklyn primitive's excuse.
He thinks it's okay to leak confidential and privileged information just because he has an anonymous online alter ego ?
The only sure way to keep a secret is to lock it in the "vault".
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I'm not buying the brooklyn primitive's excuse.
He thinks it's okay to leak confidential and privileged information just because he has an anonymous online alter ego ?
The only sure way to keep a secret is to lock it in the "vault".
3 can keep a secret if 2 are dead.
KC
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The primitives are being silly and complaining about nothing. No bad thing has ever happen to any primitive based upon their liberal beliefs and behavior that wasn't fully deserved. And even the things that have happened were light compared to what justice truly demanded.
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I'm reminded of a phrase that I think relates well to the issue: "If you have nothing to hide then you won't mind being searched..."
We might have nothing to hide, it doesn't matter, our privacy is still invaluable.
I think we can all agree, when it comes to searching the typical DUmmie's mind, one is bound to find vast quantities of "nothing".
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A certain website/board invests a remarkable amount of effort in identifying DU members.
Poor addled grasswipe Judy, after a nine-year investigation, has discovered that franksolich's real-world name is Bo Pelini.
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Poor addled grasswipe Judy, after an nine-year investigation, has discovered that franksolich's real-world name is Bo Pelini.
:lmao: :rotf: :rofl:
That gets you an H5.
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On the national stage: Joe the Plumber
And Carlos Danger.