Folks college age or younger, is this the "thing" now.

[SteveJRogers]

Key word being OURSELFS though

There is no such word.

At 12:30am and you are babbling on a message board, then yes it does become a word!



Okay, it wouldn't count for Words with Friends...

 

[Kemaiku]

Key word being OURSELFS though

There is no such word.

At 12:30am and you are babbling on a message board, then yes it does become a word!



Okay, it wouldn't count for Words with Friends...

If I can be awake 40 hours straight, at 2am, course work, SO throwing up in the next room and still post coherently so can you, mind you that was a few years ago.

 

[ares93]

Man's got a point, you know. I've done 20 hour days for nearly four years now and the worst i do when i'm tired is slip back into mancunian.

Rubbish sleeping patterns isnt an excuse.

Dear god, i just became a grammar nazi. Please tell me there's a cure.

 

[Holdfast]

Dear god, i just became a grammar nazi. Please tell me there's a cure.

No, only a final solution.

 

[Kemaiku]

Dear god, i just became a grammar nazi. Please tell me there's a cure.

Read Twilight, if it doesn't kill you outright, the mistakes you see here won't matter anywhere near as much anymore.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Those who have read Twilight and survived to tell the tale deserve to write incoherently without being attacked by Grammar Nazis.

 

[FPAlpha]

I go by "gorzek" elsewhere, which is a pretty obscure (and nerdy) reference. But I still put down my gorzek email address on my resume and everything.

I'm 30.

See.. every guide i ever read and every person i ever talked to about applications and resumees was very adamant that you should stay away from "fun" email adresses when applying for a job. A serious adress like your real life name@... is always preferred and when we recently built up a new department in my company and had applications coming in there was one woman who honestly replied with ...bunny@... (can't remember right now) and the entire office had a good laugh and her application was set aside.

I'm curious.. did you get many job interviews and did it ever come up?

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I go by "gorzek" elsewhere, which is a pretty obscure (and nerdy) reference. But I still put down my gorzek email address on my resume and everything.

I'm 30.

See.. every guide i ever read and every person i ever talked to about applications and resumees was very adamant that you should stay away from "fun" email adresses when applying for a job. A serious adress like your real life name@... is always preferred and when we recently built up a new department in my company and had applications coming in there was one woman who honestly replied with ...bunny@... (can't remember right now) and the entire office had a good laugh and her application was set aside.

I'm curious.. did you get many job interviews and did it ever come up?

I got plenty of interviews--and still get cold hits to my email address from headhunters. Nobody ever asks about my email address.

 

[SeerSGB]

I go by "gorzek" elsewhere, which is a pretty obscure (and nerdy) reference. But I still put down my gorzek email address on my resume and everything.

I'm 30.

See.. every guide i ever read and every person i ever talked to about applications and resumees was very adamant that you should stay away from "fun" email adresses when applying for a job. A serious adress like your real life name@... is always preferred and when we recently built up a new department in my company and had applications coming in there was one woman who honestly replied with ...bunny@... (can't remember right now) and the entire office had a good laugh and her application was set aside.

I'm curious.. did you get many job interviews and did it ever come up?

I've done that back when I was a floor-super and had to do selection/interviews for new hires. Mostly though cause our DM at the time had a thing for being ultra-professional (movie theater, interviewing for ushers and concessionist and he was acting like it was a 5 star hotel) and thought that anyone that put down a "fake name" (what he called screennames) e-mail address wasn't professional enough.

 

[Mary Ann]

My username in most places as well as my email handles are based on my maiden name. It's impossible to spell or pronounce correctly without help but because it's so unusual the handle name is never taken. My married name is common as muck and therefore useless for email handles.

 

[Random_Spock]

I'm 35, went online in 1995. Back then, even now, I try to keep my "online life" apart from my "real life". I'm very selective about who knows what about the other. And I would never think to consider my online nick my "real" name......


I'll cop to being a little out of touch with the newest 'net trends or the "lifestyle" (as one snarky little teen I know calls online life). But is this a new fad that's just popped up, a symptom of new digital "Social media" lifestyle?

I think we are dinosaurs, The entire ideal of avatars and user names and message boards is dying as people post real pics and names on Facebook and other sites.

That's really sad to see, since not everyone likes those kinds of sites. I don't even bother to use my Facebook account that much at all. There's no real point to it. As for avatars... I'm one who would never use my own picture as an avatar (again a privacy thing with me).

Social Media is somewhat overrated in my opinion. I have a Twitter account that I use just as much as my Facebook one . I find real life more interesting than those two sites. They're ok to go on every now and then, but heck I actually find regular message boards to be more entertaining and interactive. Also, there seems to be somewhat more of a sense of a community () on message boards as well, that I have yet to find on Twitter, Facebook and those kinds of sites.