People with two identities online.

[Amaris]

Every January 1st I get sooooooooooo many birthday wishes from forums and sites and businesses most of which I've completely forgotten about.

Every year I get a birthday wish from a stripper website, telling me to have a sexy, sensuous birthday filled with thrills. I have never been a stripper, but I commend them for their dedication to my happiness, and to their website for the well-wishes.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I'm pretty sure you'd make an excellent stripper but you have to save the unicorn rainbow [deleted] for last. You know, for suspense.

 

[Amaris]

I'm pretty sure you'd make an excellent stripper...

Thank you.

but you have to save the unicorn rainbow [deleted] for last. You know, for suspense.

Of course. It's all about the mystery.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Plus you need to make the most of your 'feelin' the rainbow' brand slogan.

 

[Avro Arrow]

I think it's kind of weird that the OP is named CocoPops when he's apparently baffled at having two identities

Let's not rush to judgement. Obviously he has at some point legally changed his name to Coco Pops 1967. Because having more than one identity is just crazy talk.

 

[tharpdevenport]

I've encountered two people that I knew more as aquaitances online that I found out later made deliberate attemps to use multiple identites. Under normal circumstances there's nothing wrong with wanting to hide who you are or have different information at different sites to make it harder to steal your info', but these were different circumstances.

The first was probably the worst -- different e-mails, different names, different ages, even a different home state. While certainly not illegal in of itself, however what he was doing it was obvious he was trying to trick people into doing things that wouldn't do for him had they really know who he was, so it certainly wasn't moral. Just because you can and just because it's not illegal, doesn't make it right, after all.

The second was very, very similar. But he was doing something that wasn't legal However it appears he made all these changes not to fly under the radar of the law, but for a similar reason above: to trick people (not for an unlawful or necessarily devious reason).


I go by three handle names online, one of which is simply my real name. If one looked hard enough at various sites, you'd probably find half a dozen different birthdays for me. I use at least a dozen password combos and variations and just plain unique ones, which are not things like "love", "puppy" and "1234".


It's okay to hide who you are, but if you are trying to purposefully decieve somebody to defraud them or commit some nafarious act upon them, it's wrong. And if you do it to create more than one account someplace or get around their system for some reason, it's clearly not okay,


Some sites are so invasive or are becoming so imvasive, I purposefully give false information to try -- as best as reasonably possible -- to keep some annonymity. My original e-mail back from 1994, has become mainly now a dumping ground for registrations so the spam goes there (though over twenty years of not replying to the spam and almost never posting it publically for a bot to find, has resulted in little spam anymore).

 

[Avro Arrow]

It's okay to hide who you are, but if you are trying to purposefully decieve somebody to defraud them or commit some nafarious act upon them, it's wrong.

I'm guessing that you're not going to get much disagreement on this point. In fact, I believe most of the posts on the subject so far include a caveat along the lines of "as long as they're not doing anything illegal".

 

[tharpdevenport]

Yes, but that doesn't mean I read every post. ;-)

 

[Timewalker]

There are fewer than 30 posts in this thread. How long can it take?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I think it's kind of weird that the OP is named CocoPops when he's apparently baffled at having two identities

On here yeah I am Coco pops and also on Gateworld Forums. On FB I use my real name. It seemed odd to me at the time because it was the first time I had encountered such a thing. Mainly because both her profiles came up in my birthday lists.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

I cheat on my birthdate and other personal info as well. Particularly on websites and forums with lots of spyware and ads where I have to be very careful to not get gazillions of spam mails, malware etc. I don't want to feed data-krakens like Facebook, Google, NSA, Russian hacker kids, or your common cyber-bully

 

[Kor]

Now, if somebody is pretending to be two separate people on the same site, i.e. sock puppets or whatever, then that's kind of irritating. And it's probably against the terms of service of that site.

Kor

 

[hux]

^I agree with everything you just said and think you're brilliant and handsome. People need to recognise your genius more often. Every single opinion you've ever expressed has been absolutely spot on. You're the best.

 

[Leviathan]

Meh, pretty uncreative.

I've been logging into various politcal and porn websites for years as "Keith B Alexander". He's the head of the NSA....well, currently...

 

[ancient]

Every age-gated site or video I've ever viewed thinks I was born on January 1st, 1900 because I am a hardcore rebel who don't give no fucks.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

don't you think it might trigger some alert when in a year or two you become the world's oldest person and aren't mentioned in the Guiness book?

 

[SPCTRE]

 

[ancient]

don't you think it might trigger some alert when in a year or two you become the world's oldest person and aren't mentioned in the Guiness book?

Those age gates are only there to deflect criticism from angry ineffectual parents whose children are out of control. They don't actually care.

 

[Kor]

Every age-gated site or video I've ever viewed thinks I was born on January 1st, 1900 because I am a hardcore rebel who don't give no fucks.

When I visit booze companies' sites, I try to put in the earliest date possible. Some of them will still let you pick a date before 1900. The Courvoisier site thinks I'm 161 years old.

I also like to enter "Antarctica" as my country. Obviously, I don't actually live there.

Kor

 

[scotpens]

When I visit booze companies' sites, I try to put in the earliest date possible. Some of them will still let you pick a date before 1900. The Courvoisier site thinks I'm 161 years old.

I also like to enter "Antarctica" as my country. Obviously, I don't actually live there.

Come on, admit it. You're really the world's oldest penguin.