My Problem with Blogs, Social Media and Other Such Stuff

June 30, 2008 5:55 PM
Related Categories: blogs, Web Dev

Nicknames.  Every where I turn there is someone named trnky2fun or something like that.  Every social site I belong to I get invited to be a friend by someone with NO profile, or with a description of 'what do you want to know'.    Their name?  Nothing descriptive. How can I say yes to that?

I have 2 people in my gmail talk alone who I have NO idea who they actually are.  I am sure I may have known when I approved 7 months ago, but no memory of it now.

Many blogs don't have an about page.  Very difficult to know who the author is.  Not always a problem, but when they want to do a link exchange or such I like to know who I am dealing with.

So there you have it, my rant for the day.  I know you all like to be invisible and not be tracked to your secret identity, but give us peeps a little help.


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For the gmail ones, I assume when you get those contacts.. you can edit them to their real names.

I do that, but I've only used gtalk within gmail - so it's just my contacts.
# Posted By Amy | 6/30/08 7:37 PM
silly people and their nicknames.
# Posted By Critter | 6/30/08 10:51 PM
I agree completely, but feel compelled to defend cryptic nicknames in one, and only one, scenario: sometimes the service is just so damn popular that you have to choice but to pick something cryptic and unintelligible. That's the only justification I can think of.
# Posted By Rob Wilkerson | 7/1/08 11:54 AM
@Rob wow, did you redesign your blog? I really like it.
# Posted By Joshua | 7/1/08 11:58 AM
Well, yeah. About 4 months ago (or something like that) :-). I haven't made any changes in a long time because I'm waiting for the new version of Chyrp. That and a general lack of motivation for personal projects. Nonetheless, glad you like it. Thanks.
# Posted By Rob Wilkerson | 7/1/08 12:10 PM
yeah, I know what you mean. My real name is Bindlestich23
# Posted By Hopsnbaer | 7/3/08 1:25 PM
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