As a general rule, I do not allow just anyone and everyone access to ANY personal information about me. Although some people may see a first name as an insignifigant piece of info, I don't intend to let just any and every person who is privy to this board know what mine is. Now, anyone I talk to in IMs knows it (it's my handle) and most people that I email know it, but to me those people are more than just nameless faces on the BB.
I figure if anyone wants to know my name, they'll ask. And in that case, I'll tell them.
My real name is... Neale. Oh. You already knew that one, didn't you? Gerald Neale to be specific. Last name is given to people I get to know more, and yes, I'm chicken to post it where the trolls can reach it.
I've shared my first name here before: Sabrina. Pretty much everthing you ever wanted to know about me (including my full name and a load of stuff nobody ever wanted to know about me) can be found by clicking my little red house.
The broad detail of my life is more or less an open book.
There are a very few people here who know my real name, but they are ones that I have emailed & talked to on the ICQ. I like Teresa, my real name is kind of boring.
You know, that's sooooooo original <g> Like I didn't here THAT all through school
And the other names in my family match Bewitched pretty well (Sabrina, Samantha, Sarah, Tabitha) so we all got that, too. It was pretty much hell, and totally accidental on the part of our parents.
"Sabrina the Teenaged Witch from Bewitched!"
Mistress, thanks I have this strange aversion to cats, actually <ggg>