WTF?: Internet nicknames in real life.
Ok so I have a pretty wacky handle on the interwebs here. CaptAngryPants.
Why? It was more given to me really. I had a coworker once that was fond of saying “Do it up Captian” or similar just referring to people as Captain. Nothing really odd, I know. But in this same group of coworkers, it was common to ask me if I had my Angry Pants on that day. I can be a surly cuss at times.
Once and while, my handle is used in real life, but usually more so when someone is making a joke or if I am being a surly cuss. But on a daily basis, I am Eric. That is my name. I like it.
Ok, ok, so I am rambling. But it is at least partially at heart to my question: Why do people use their very obviously fake names in real life?
Now I can understand having a stage name, cause well, we need our strippers and pornstars. But it seems really queer to me to for the more average person even the “internet special” person to be using a stage name in real life. You go to some meeting or convention and they want to be referred to as the stagename.
I’m sorry? I wanna call you Bill or Sam or Angelica. It just seems impersonal to call them by their handle or it seems douchey on their part to want to be called by the monkier. I want to communicate to the person inside, not the faux shell. And don’t even get me started on those special types that desired to be called their Wiccan, Werewolf, Fae or Furry names. *shudders*
I guess I live too much in a closed off world or are they just douchebags?
