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How many MN 'personas' have you ever had?

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Norty · 03/05/2005 22:28

There's a another thread talking about how easily people can be deceptive on chat rooms, however most people seem to be saying "oh, but I think I'd spot someone fake", or "but I haven't the time/energy for multiple posts"

It got me wondering, "How many MN personas have people ever had".In other words, how many different MN nicknames have you EVER used?

My personal score is probably well towards 20 - over 5 years... some most regularly, some occasionally, and a few only once....

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Caligula · 03/05/2005 23:16

You clever old stick, what are you on about!? Spill the beans!

My fave fake thread was Jane and her neighbour's cleaner. So funny.

sunchowder · 03/05/2005 23:15

You are so right Martha--I was WendyRead!!! I forgot all about that as I have been sunny for so very long....

Janh · 03/05/2005 23:14

I thought they were - after a while! - and I have an inkling that one or 2 others on the thread knew that they were, and who they were.

marthamoo · 03/05/2005 23:14

sunchowder, I remember your first MN name!

sunchowder · 03/05/2005 23:12

I am always myself and I can't BELIEVE Joanne23 and Ithinkitwas me were the SAME person!!! Do Titania and FF know???

marthamoo · 03/05/2005 23:12

I have to say I agree, Norty. I think a public access forum can be a bad place to be if you are vulnerable/sensitive. It's happened so many times on here when a person has not got the response they expected and has taken it very badly. You have to be confident enough to get a bad response and be able to say "to hell with it." Sadly, the people who gravitate towards MN in their 'hour of need' are the most vulnerable to unsympathetic posters and trolls. I don't think there's an answer to that conundrum.

Janh · 03/05/2005 23:11

Oh I am, miss.

Caligula · 03/05/2005 23:08

Who on here is respectable?

NortyNorty · 03/05/2005 23:07

is this one of them?

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Norty · 03/05/2005 23:06

P.S. Yes - I DO have 2 very regular, respectable personas.....!

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Norty · 03/05/2005 23:05

Mostly fun threads, as I recall. I don't post as much as I used to, and don't think it's a particularly good use of time these days.
Also, it's easy to see how easily some people can get 'hurt' - I just don't think some people on here are:

  • emotionally stable enough;
  • web- savvy enough
  • or have the appropriate intellectual mind-set to appreciate the sort of humour that goes on in the 'persona-changing' threads... (By way of an analogy, have you ever heard the old Radio 4 'Mornington cresent' quiz played with someone who just doesn't 'get it'??

I'm really not trying to shit stir actually - more a case of expressing incredulity at the general level of naivity (if there is such a word).
My suspicion is that a lot of what one reads on here is not quite as it appears - and I think (sadly) people need to be more aware of that...

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Caligula · 03/05/2005 23:03

Ooh yes, so CatAttack was you, Moo.

It all adds up!

Caligula · 03/05/2005 23:02

Well now I'm completely confused!

Was somebody the sunflower who witnessed the football being thrown at the cat?

Twiglett · 03/05/2005 23:02

Can I just say I loved 'CatAttack' - very funny

piffle · 03/05/2005 23:01

I've just reread that entire thread since the last time I posted on it
Special top posting awards to QE and FF
Others too, I literally just broke the seal reading that
And I have no washing machine

Twiglett · 03/05/2005 23:01

I don't change my name Sneaky (well not unless its to muck around with people's heads)

hunkermunker · 03/05/2005 23:00

Moo, I pretended to be the bloody football - how do you think I feel?!

And Twiglett, young lady, what's with the at people who change their names? Hmm?

knowitall · 03/05/2005 23:00

it was over the weekend of the summer party last year

Twiglett · 03/05/2005 22:57

I totally missed that thread, but I love the name knowitall

Twiglett · 03/05/2005 22:57

well said Moo I think I followed that

marthamoo · 03/05/2005 22:56

Joanne/ithinkitwasme, do you not think it's a little...erm...weird to throw a football at a cat, feel guilty, pretend to be a fictitious person whose cat has had a football thrown at it, then pretend to be the football thrower, when you actually were the football thrower, then proceed to have a row with yourself, to the point of pretending to go round to the fictitious neighbour's (who was actually you) house to confront her?

Have you ever seen The Three Faces of Eve?

Norty - do you do "fun" threads or shit-stirring threads? And do you have a 'proper' MN name?

knowitall · 03/05/2005 22:55

I was vaGinaFord for that thread

knowitall · 03/05/2005 22:55

I was vaGinaFord for that thread

rickman · 03/05/2005 22:53

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Twiglett · 03/05/2005 22:51

I am desperate to know who joanne / ithinkitwasme actually is

but then that'll just be another nomdeplume won't it

maybe that's it, maybe they're / he's / she's (oo getting confused) nomdeplume