Comments | badsede: hmmmmm

badsede

hmmmmm

Sep 14, 2005 12:30

My priest just called me "insert my name here-O." I'm not sure how I feel about that.

What? What privacy paranoia? ;)

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sea_sensu_si September 14 2005, 16:44:20 UTC

lol ;)

I don't see any privacy paranoia at all... none what-so-ever

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badsede September 14 2005, 17:04:43 UTC

Much better than “insert my name here-Y.” I'd hate to have to punch a priest. ;)

buonaventura September 15 2005, 17:52:09 UTC

dude, one of my brothers shares your name and somehow got the name "your name here-sy" on the road. how'd you like that one? ;)

i actually usually distinguish talking about you from talking about him by always referring to him as "name"-sy and you as "name" when talking to friends who don't know either of you.

"name"-o just doesn't have the right ring to it, imho, but it's amusing to hear someone calling YOU "name"-o

shareul September 14 2005, 17:22:17 UTC

So, you won't be changing your username to badsede-o and definitely not to badsedey. Gotcha. ;P

sistermeg September 14 2005, 17:32:35 UTC

I think it is not just privacy paranoia, it's vagueness pride.

We used to call the Lower Campus Dining Facility at BC the "your name here" dining hall. Lo and behold, a few years ago they named it after a mega-donor.

badsede September 14 2005, 17:36:12 UTC

Actually, it is just that I have never put my name in my journal. It is just one of a laundry-list of facts that do not get mentioned. Some people know it, but it is because I have told them elsewhere.

I've thought that it would be cool to donate enough money to get a building named and then name it after someone else.

tiwonge September 15 2005, 02:08:16 UTC

I think we have several unnamed buildings here.

You know, speaking of privacy paranoia... thisdesertedsea September 14 2005, 17:48:08 UTC

I don't tell many people this, but I'm actually a 377 pound 47-year-old truck driver named Earl with a sixth grade education and a penchant for vast conspiracy theories who has an alter-ego as a twenty-something acerbic college-grad named "Kate." I'm also a practitioner of Zoroastrianism.

I'm also....looking at you RIGHT NOW! BWA HA HA!1!!

.....

=P

Re: You know, speaking of privacy paranoia... badsede September 14 2005, 18:02:57 UTC

I used to live in the same place as one of the people on my friend's list .. and now I live in the same place as a couple other people and THEY DON"T EVEN KNOW, dun dun duuuuunnnnn. I e-mailed him and asked what he would say if he found out that I lived just 10 min away. His response was priceless, that it was funny because he was actually a 20-something grad student in Florida doing a sociology experiement.

Re: You know, speaking of privacy paranoia... thisdesertedsea September 14 2005, 18:39:48 UTC

I was wondering about this; are all the people you actually know on your friends list people you know from non-LJ locales? Put another way, has LJ ever been the impetus for you to meet someone you didn't otherwise know? If so, did you wear a disguise? Feign an accent? Give a fake name? Get someone else to pretend to be you?

Does The Vague permeate every aspect of your life?

Re: You know, speaking of privacy paranoia... badsede September 14 2005, 19:01:34 UTC

Everyone on my list was met in LJ-land. No one in my real life even knows that this exists. Several people from LJ-land have been brought into my real life though .. and they usually find the experience rather odd. Once I actually meet them and make that transition, all vagueness and privacy paranoia is gone. I am, in non-internet interactions, actually a very open and forthcoming person.

But the reasons are simple. One is that I do not trust the internet, therefore I do not want personal info stored in LJ's databases. The other is that when I started this journal it was largely as a means of catharsis. The freedom and brutal honesty that anonymnity affords is something that I do not want to lose.

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