Real name, user name, or some nickname?

Logan wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: NaturalScience wrote: People that know me use my real name, others usually use NS.  Either way is fine by me. That's how I feel too; it depends on who's addressing me and how deep of a relationship we have. I can understand that.  Sometimes I'm a  little uncomfortable using real names when I don't know a person well.  From your user-name, what do you prefer, the full one (but that sounds awkward to me), MovingPictures, MP, MP07, MoP....?  I used to prefer reserving my real-name for people that I felt I'd developed an understanding with based on mutual sympathy -- people who you feel closer to and relate to/ can speak on a personal level with.

MP is fine if you want to use an abbreviation, but anyone is free to call me Alex and I'm fine with it. I've talked to you on enough occasions, Greg, that it's definitely comfortable. Either way is completely acceptable.

The only complication is that if someone knows me really well, then I almost prefer them to call me Alex, rather than just MP or Moving Pictures.

I prefer to be called Sir.

Re: by pet name. Calling me with my cat's name would be a little confusing. I think one Micky is enough. 

Tony R wrote: I prefer to be called Sir.

Sir Riviere - that doesn't have a nice ringing to it, so I'll call you Sir Tony (if I don't forget to).

I always use my real name as my username, sometimes with the first letter of my last name attached (usually only because 'angelo' is already in use). As a result - people call me by my name, which I like best.

Angelo wrote: Tony R wrote: I prefer to be called Sir. Sir Riviere - that doesn't have a nice ringing to it, so I'll call you Sir Tony (if I don't forget to). I always use my real name as my username, sometimes with the first letter of my last name attached (usually only because 'angelo' is already in use). As a result - people call me by my name, which I like best.

rushfan4 wrote: Angelo wrote: Tony R wrote: I prefer to be called Sir. Sir Riviere - that doesn't have a nice ringing to it, so I'll call you Sir Tony (if I don't forget to). I always use my real name as my username, sometimes with the first letter of my last name attached (usually only because 'angelo' is already in use). As a result - people call me by my name, which I like best.   So your name is Angel O, is it?

How did you guess, Scot T? Or is that Scottie?

My close friends and relatives call me JayDee.

I am a stranger in your land, a wandering man, call me sand.

On second thought, don't call me sand, call me gravel. My name is Gravel. Pea Gravel.


Edited by Vompatti - January 12 2009 at 19:21

Knowone calls me by my real name only on occasion i've heard people do it but everyone including me looks at them stranglely because i havent been called since school.Everyone calls me variations of Coz or Cozzy,Hence Mrcozdude.Cozfunkel seems to popular because i play bass and like funk and its sounds like garfunkel.

Most people (even those with who I have a deeper relationship in here) still call me Bern which is perfectly fine to me. I picked that user name cause it is special to me. I think it also helps that it's such a short word who already sounds like a nickname that could actually be my first name.

I like being called Olivier too though cause I like my name.