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Isn't this in reverse??? A lot of people on Facebook know who I am. I was in TONS of forums and no one had a clue who I was in real life and my accounts weren't
by stjohnswarts 5y ago
Isn't this in reverse??? A lot of people on Facebook know who I am. I was in TONS of forums and no one had a clue who I was in real life and my accounts weren't connected with anything other than a made up email for "confirmation" purposes and promptly deleted.
- thrashh 5y agoI think a more exact description is: On social media groups and public posts, you are named but you are nobody to everyone else. On forums, you are unnamed but you gather a reputation and become somebody. (And on HN and Reddit, you are both unnamed AND a nobody.) And I think it’s because on forums, it was a combination of (1) a smaller community and (2) you had an avatar and sometimes a signature, which made every post of yours memorable.