Lit Names, Real Life

[Rambling Rose]

He embraced it.
But I've said it before, SilvaTungDevil is an oft underrated comic genius.

And he smells good, too. Like old tacos and bongwater.

 

[Equinoxe]

Since I don't talk to anyone offline it isn't so much of an issue, but I tend to think of and refer to people as their Lit names, even if I know their actual name.

 

[breakwall]

And he smells good, too. Like old tacos and bongwater.

If I could only get an air freshener for my car with that scent...

 

[Olivianna]

i don't remember anyone's real name, so it doesn't really matter for me. i either don't call them anything or i make up my own nickname for them.

 

[MechaBlade]

Chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin? Give me a hint here.

peanut butter

 

[ksmybuttons]

I was talking to someone on the phone and she says to her partner, "It's ksmybuttons!" (with a wonderful southern accent, I might add.)

Cring.

"Hello, ksmybuttons here..."

Maybe that's one of the reasons I don't meet many lit people in 3D.

 

[DevilishTexan]

Yes.
It's just comfortable. Anything else would feel alien.

Have you ever felt an alien?

Clammy.

 

[sleepingtodream]

peanut butter

With the chunky peanut butter?

 

[MechaBlade]

i don't remember anyone's real name, so it doesn't really matter for me. i either don't call them anything or i make up my own nickname for them.

I forgot your name like 5 mins after learning it.

 

[Radiohead]

I'm known by a thousand different real life names, whats the difference?

 

[Olivianna]

I forgot your name like 5 mins after learning it.

ditto

 

[MechaBlade]

With the chunky peanut butter?

smooth

 

[sleepingtodream]

smooth

Like yourself?

On topic...i should work on a nickname.

 

[MechaBlade]

Like yourself?

On topic...i should work on a nickname.

dreamy

 

[Pyro Paul]

it isn't all that weird really.
i call people by their call signs all the time.

not that i am apart of this lit group which calls, meets, and or screw eachother on a regular baises to have this type of problem occur.

i guess its normal for me because i come from a military familiy.

 

[breakwall]

not that i am apart of this lit group which calls, meets, and or screw eachother on a regular baises to have this type of problem occur.

Man, I want to be a part of that group. Where do they meet, Paul?

 

[@}-}rebecca----]

The name thing varies. Usually if the conversation is light hearted the Lit Nic applies, though I find when discussing issues that are serious I work at calling people by their actual name. No hard or fast rules apply really though. I am quite happy being called either name , same person different tags. Rebecca is not a 'character', just a another safety net and the only name I have ever used since I started coming online several years ago. I feel that makes me accountable to some degree.

I do find the closer I get to knowing a person and the more their interaction extends out of Lit and IM and into my general life , the more I feel it's important to assimilate their actual name.

 

[Pyro Paul]

Man, I want to be a part of that group. Where do they meet, Paul?

i told you i am not apart of that.

i can not disassamble, discomboggle, or break into tiny parts their collective group to their for find a path of which into their fold.

 

[*HeadlessBarbie]

Considering that I've only met one person from Lit, and his real name was his screenname for a long time, it was no problem for me to be accustomed to using his real name.

He's never referred to me by my screenname offline. He's always used a shortened version of my real name (a nickname). I actually prefer to be called by my whole first name, but it's a long name, so most people shorten it, and I've grown used to going by the nickname.

I used to work in radio, where 95% or more people use fake names. I always tended to call the person by the first name that I was introduced to them with. Sometimes it was their real name, other times it was their on-air name.

 

[katiebarthedoor]

couldnt really say.
my real name isnt much tougher than "katie" so it's hard to give an opinion.

 

[raindancer]

I can't help it. I have met several online friends over the years. I have a hard time calling them by their real names after a long while of calling them by their nicks.

 

[bg23]

couldnt really say.
my real name isnt much tougher than "katie" so it's hard to give an opinion.

which, by the way, is extremely misleading.

 

[Radiohead]

I can't help it. I have met several online friends over the years. I have a hard time calling them by their real names after a long while of calling them by their nicks.

I just call you by my nickname for you, makes no difference that I know your name

 

[raindancer]

I just call you by my nickname for you, makes no difference that I know your name

Exactly. You'll always be Mopey to me.

 

[SweetBrie]

After awhile you just meet so many people its not as easy to remember their real names.