Chipperdini
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Feb 28, 2001
- Messages
- 1,181
Just some thoughts:
I view Internet people - the people actually typing under the usernames - as real people, and all that goes with that.
I believe I should conduct myself on the Internet in the same manner I should in my Real Life. My Virtual Life is part of me/my Real Life.
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This kinda thing touches pretty close to home for me.
DH and I had a close, longtime (10+ years) Real Life friend who chose to lie and lead a double life on the Internet, and to also take the lie/double life to Real Life. Suffice it to say, the whole terrible mess was truly heartbreaking for a number of people, including us.
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To my knowledge, Ive never lied with intent to deceive on the Net. It is likely that Ive embellished or lied at times in playful exchanges or posts on the DIS, but I think such times would have been clearly understood to be just havin fun kinds of things. For example, DH and I have a joke about how he tried to off me on our honeymoon. At some point, I probably related the tale on the DIS. He didnt REALLY try to murder me, and I think it would have been clear from my post that I was presenting a humorous take on a real event that did take place. And just to set the record straight, browneyes/Shannon isnt REALLY my Twin-- shes my Brain.
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Its no secret that I have more than one username on the DIS. When I initially joined, I had no intention of creating any additional names, and had there been a rule against doing so as Ive seen on some BBs, I would not have done so. With the exception of one creation for the sole purpose of temporarily engaging in grievous self-destructive and immoral behavior that I couldnt bring myself to do to Chipperdini, any other username of mine was created for benign purposes. On the rare occasions that Ive conversed seriously with anyone in PM using an alias, especially if I had reason to believe the individual would know me as Chipperdini, Ive been upfront that Im using an alternate account and have not hesitated to say that Im Chipperdini. The vast majority of my posting here over the years has been as Chipperdini, although a year or so after Id left and distanced myself from the DIS and DISers, I did return for a time just to post mindless killing time posts on game threads under the username flaps. Quite unexpectedly, I wound up hanging around and posting longer than Id intended to before going down with the ship during a board change.
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Oh, and btw, Chipperdini IS dead, in case anyone ever really believed I was a highly evolved wheeter. (The guinea pigs that inspired the username are no longer living. *sniff*sniff*)
I view Internet people - the people actually typing under the usernames - as real people, and all that goes with that.
I believe I should conduct myself on the Internet in the same manner I should in my Real Life. My Virtual Life is part of me/my Real Life.
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This kinda thing touches pretty close to home for me.
DH and I had a close, longtime (10+ years) Real Life friend who chose to lie and lead a double life on the Internet, and to also take the lie/double life to Real Life. Suffice it to say, the whole terrible mess was truly heartbreaking for a number of people, including us.
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To my knowledge, Ive never lied with intent to deceive on the Net. It is likely that Ive embellished or lied at times in playful exchanges or posts on the DIS, but I think such times would have been clearly understood to be just havin fun kinds of things. For example, DH and I have a joke about how he tried to off me on our honeymoon. At some point, I probably related the tale on the DIS. He didnt REALLY try to murder me, and I think it would have been clear from my post that I was presenting a humorous take on a real event that did take place. And just to set the record straight, browneyes/Shannon isnt REALLY my Twin-- shes my Brain.
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Its no secret that I have more than one username on the DIS. When I initially joined, I had no intention of creating any additional names, and had there been a rule against doing so as Ive seen on some BBs, I would not have done so. With the exception of one creation for the sole purpose of temporarily engaging in grievous self-destructive and immoral behavior that I couldnt bring myself to do to Chipperdini, any other username of mine was created for benign purposes. On the rare occasions that Ive conversed seriously with anyone in PM using an alias, especially if I had reason to believe the individual would know me as Chipperdini, Ive been upfront that Im using an alternate account and have not hesitated to say that Im Chipperdini. The vast majority of my posting here over the years has been as Chipperdini, although a year or so after Id left and distanced myself from the DIS and DISers, I did return for a time just to post mindless killing time posts on game threads under the username flaps. Quite unexpectedly, I wound up hanging around and posting longer than Id intended to before going down with the ship during a board change.
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Oh, and btw, Chipperdini IS dead, in case anyone ever really believed I was a highly evolved wheeter.
(The guinea pigs that inspired the username are no longer living. *sniff*sniff*)
I assume most other people I encouter aren't also.
