Naming by others in one's social context is described for 5 people in TFA's 3rd paragraph, but the author treats that as self naming. If people call you some

Naming by others in one's social context is described for 5 people in TFA's 3rd paragraph, but the author treats that as self naming. If people call you something, and you answer to it, are you a sovereign defining your own name, or a subject of the people in a social context (family, sports club, poker club, cow-orkers) who are offering you a name, which you may accept, or attempt to reject? I am familiar with a community of people who use names they have chosen within the community. (SFW :-) ). Before Facebook, one might expect to know the chosen names of perhaps half the people at a gathering, and the "real" (first, nick, email, perhaps legal) names of perhaps half of those. Since Facebook, and as community messaging has moved from mailing lists to Facebook, under its early "real names" policy, people now know the Facebook names of many attendees but have more difficulty remembering their chosen names. Social context and naming affect each other.