I feel the same, a little, but then again this screenname is me and I'd not want to lose that. It's that connection thing, I suppose, the human roots habit, maybe.

So part of me feels like Chex does about not wanting people to be able to dig into my life. While part of me feels like Long does and realises there's no point be bothered about it because you've got no way of preventing it at this stage.

Why stress about something you have no control over, I suppose. If you just started using the internet for the first time now, you'd be seriously inhibiting your enjoyment of it if you went out of your way to prevent any information about you from getting out, and Google etc. would still get it all anyway. ><

I am definitely the "I don't want these people on the internet to know nothing about my real life or even see me, type of person." Some of what I say is true, other things are outright lies. I make them flow seamlessly so you'd have to be a serious internet stalker to figure it out.

Challenge accepted! -rolls up sleeves-

....It's getting hard for me to find relate-able gifs. Oh god, I'm sick.

OMG

*lies on floor* I wanna take a nap, but I also wanna do something... I don't know what but it sounds like fun.

Do something in your sleep? Will be exciting to find out what it was when you wake up!

I did have a weird dream last night. I can't remember what happened exactly, but there was a big house, in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere, and Sean Penn was my brother, and it was all terrifying. Somehow he was the younger one, too.

Was the terrifying aspect being in a big house in the middle of nowhere, or the fact that Sean Penn was your brother? xD

I dunno. I can remember something was out there... and at some point there was an ML pony/groot mashup thing outside. It was peaceful, but its heart was on the outside of its body, buried underground and attached to a weird root looking thing from its chest, like an Ood-tree. My dream seriously had a big-lipped alligator moment.

Is this one of those moments when you're telling complete lies?

If only. My dreams are incredibly warped. There was one I had where I kept circulating. I was being chased by soldiers and some creepy guy (think the end of Alice in Wonderland) And I ran through the treasure place from The Mummy, This forested area full of happy people with hats, and a grave-looking grey place that DID NOT help the ambiance. The second time I circled through I somehow turned into a girl, and I was horrified to find the people in the forest who tried to help me the first time were all gone, but blood was everywhere. And the third circling it was still the girl, but I was myself now and it was this weird omnipotent thing where I was above it all watching everything happen.


Who needs drugs when you have an imagination, right?

Originally Posted by jellysundae

I feel the same, a little, but then again this screenname is me and I'd not want to lose that. It's that connection thing, I suppose, the human roots habit, maybe.

So part of me feels like Chex does about not wanting people to be able to dig into my life. While part of me feels like Long does and realises there's no point be bothered about it because you've got no wat of preventing it at this stage.

Why stress about something you have no control over, I suppose. If you just started using the internet for the first time now, you'd be seriously inhibiting your enjoyment of it if you went out of your way to prevent any information about you from getting out, and Google etc. would still get it all anyway. ><

I feel the same way about my internet names, I love them and don't want to lose them. I just kinda wish I could, I don't know, tidy everything up. I have so many abandoned accounts scattered behind me, I wish I could remember them all and close them down.

And yeah, it's really difficult to control your information on the web, and there are major downsides to trying. On the other hand, I don't like the idea of simple rolling over, yielding to the almighty google, and giving up on the idea of privacy. I don't think privacy is dead, and we shouldn't give it up without a fight.

Originally Posted by Alexander J Luthor

If only. My dreams are incredibly warped. There was one I had where I kept circulating. I was being chased by soldiers and some creepy guy (think the end of Alice in Wonderland) And I ran through the treasure place from The Mummy, This forested area full of happy people with hats, and a grave-looking grey place that DID NOT help the ambiance. The second time I circled through I somehow turned into a girl, and I was horrified to find the people in the forest who tried to help me the first time were all gone, but blood was everywhere. And the third circling it was still the girl, but I was myself now and it was this weird omnipotent thing where I was above it all watching everything happen.


Who needs drugs when you have an imagination, right?

So true. I have had dreams like that, where I keep going through the same scenes over and over. Usually I'm trying to change something that went wrong, but I can't, and I get stuck in a loop like a skipping record.

My Little Groot... not as scary as you'd think.

Originally Posted by Chexala

So true. I have had dreams like that, where I keep going through the same scenes over and over. Usually I'm trying to change something that went wrong, but I can't, and I get stuck in a loop like a skipping record.

Just... running. Forever. OH! Do you ever have a hypersensitive dream where you can feel everything happening? Some people say you can't feel pain in a dream. I believe that is an outright LIE.

Originally Posted by Alexander J Luthor

Just... running. Forever. OH! Do you ever have a hypersensitive dream where you can feel everything happening? Some people say you can't feel pain in a dream. I believe that is an outright LIE.

I've only had a few sensory dreams like that, but they were incredible. Mostly I've felt weird little details, like my hair bouncing around in a pony tail, or something like that.

Once I dreamed my hand hurt really bad, and I couldn't get it to stop hurting, and when I woke up, I'd been lying on my hand all night it was very asleep.

I'm pretty open. My face, my first name, the state I live in, and details about my life are all fair game for sharing. I will not publicly post any personally identifying information (last name, city I live in, college I go to), but I'm usually totally fine with sharing that information privately with internet friends. The main thing there is that I control who sees it and can keep it just to people I trust, rather than leaving it out in the void for literally anyone to see.

Last name? Well it's antacid of course

I'm the weird, awkward one that's just there.

It surprises me to see that people lie about things, only because I've never made up anything in conversation online. It feels too dishonest to me, even though those people will never know what is true or not.

I would say I am quite secretive. I'd rather be elusive than lay out all my details. Where I live (country/place) is something I don't mind talking about. Just think how many people live in such a small space in the world! But I wouldn't like to share my name, the main reason being I feel like I'd be more exposed that people knew my name.. but not for any more reason than in my head. Those sorts of things would be easy to find anyway. I have only ever shared a picture of me with someone online a long time ago, but not publicly. Maybe I will someday, I'm not sure. It wouldn't bother me too much I don't think..

As for my internet personality.. like I said, I'm always honest, so I probably come across as I do in real life..? I am shy, but I try my best to have good conversation. I am kind of a drifter, with no close friends, which is the same. I would like people to talk to more regularly, but I'm not sure I attract people very well

I'm sort of on the line. I'll share first name, full birthdate, and country/state, some stuff about my personality, as well as hobbies and some interests. The hardest part for about sharing some interests is not so much one of privacy, but rather a combo of: 1, My anxiety issues, I feel like if I share an interest about a real person I like something might happen to them, or I'll find out something I don't want to know. 2, I'm afraid of being judged. One of the reasons it took me a over a year to start up my Mene Rangers thread, is because I wasn't sure if I would be teased or not. My dad use to tease me endlessly for liking Power Rangers, calling them the M&M guys and other such stuff he thought was funny but annoyed me. But decided to do it anyway in the hopes of helping give something fun to Mene, that I could easily relate too.

I refuse to share my last name, address, and very important information, like social security numbers and stuff, lol. If I knew and trusted someone on the internet long enough, I might give out my last name and address. But I would have to feel pretty comfortable, and it hasn't happened with anyone yet, lol.

And I know what you mean, Amane, about people trying to get you to share real info about yourself. It doesn't really happen to me on forums, but I get it all the time in MMO's. I had this one guy who kept trying to get my name because he liked me(even though he'd only known me like 30 minutes XD), I'll give first name, but nothing else. People like that scare me...

I'm so in between because I got a pretty good idea of what stuff could be easily be found, if I want it to or not. Between the things I know about Google, and sites like Facebook, not to mention cookies and such stuff. It's rather desturbing to know how little privacy we have online. I'm kind of like Chex though, I would give out everything, because I don't want to give it up without a fight ether.

As for lying about myself, I can't really bring myself to do that, I have many, many different usernames on various sites, but that the extent of my hiding, lol. It's really funny in PWI, I have so many avatars on there, if someone started stalking me, I could literally disappear on an alt. I'm pretty much like I am online, just more quiet.

I'm the secretive sort, as anyone here who knows me could tell you.

I don't do Facebutt, I don't post pictures of myself, and hardly anyone even knows my first name (even my username uses part of my middle name instead). I used to be a lot more open and treat the internet like any other place, but things change, I guess.

I think these days that it's mostly because I simply couldn't hang if people knew who I've been on the intertnet before.

I started out fine, then fell prey to many of the diseases that can happen to people on the net. Things like hubris, unwarranted self-importance, I've-been-here-longer syndrome, you're-all-stupid syndrome, and (shudder) fuck-you-I'm-a-mod syndrome.

I turned into a total bitch for a while, and my friends liked me that way, and when I realized that being that bitch was the reason I had only 3 friends and they were all on the internet and everyone thought they were bitches too but had to respect them because they ran the place with me, well, I had to stop and reevaluate myself as a person. I did some truly awful things, and ruined some otherwise good times for a lot of people. And I can't undo any of it. I quit the site I was on (I'd made assistant administrator/co-owner by then) and have never looked back. I don't regret leaving that scene.

Having made it this far out of that awful bit of history, I am literally scared shitless that someone will recognize me from before and my past will come back to ruin my present. It's taken a lot of work to become a better person, and I would hate to see it all go up in flames.

We accept vera as vera is. Scars and all.

That's because you're all awesome.

And I don't ever want to let you down.