Have you ever attempted to create multiple personalities online?

[SDMBKL]

For example, on one website, you pretend to be a 10-year-old little girl who limited vocabulary and unsophisticated use of language. On another website, you pretend to be a 13-year-old male L33tspeaker who cannot write in proper English. On another website, you write with a British dialect, even though you know you are American. However, you try to hide your American thinking by studying a great deal about how British people speak and their manners and culture. That way, online people would think you are British, and you would be laughing behind your computer screen. :D

[Sattua]

I wrote a blog as a fictional person, for about a year. I don't think anyone ever read it so no harm no foul ;)

[jabiru]

No. I did join a messageboard under a completely different nic from the one I'd been using. I didn't actually claim to be male, but I implied it. All my other attributes (age, marital status, kids, employment) stayed the same and I presented my views truthfully.

Even so, I couldn't be bothered and left after about a week.

[Digital is the new Analog]

In high school, I played on a few online games running MajorBBS software. A few friends of mine and I decided to form an evil gang. We kept our regular handles, but added new ones - this was totally allowed by the SysOps. I had two phone lines, two computers, and type pretty fast.

It was fun for a while.


-D/a

[Lanzy]

Pointless?

[RetroVertigo]

For example, on one website, you pretend to be a 10-year-old little girl who limited vocabulary and unsophisticated use of language. On another website, you pretend to be a 13-year-old male L33tspeaker who cannot write in proper English. On another website, you write with a British dialect, even though you know you are American. However, you try to hide your American thinking by studying a great deal about how British people speak and their manners and culture. That way, online people would think you are British, and you would be laughing behind your computer screen. :D

Are you trying to tell us something?

[dzero]

I would do this but that would involve trying to control my various personalities and some of them get very angry if I try to control them. :eek: :cool:

[Thudlow Boink]

No; I find it hard enough attempting to create one personality.

[Malleus, Incus, Stapes!]

No.

[thelabdude]

I was just thinking about starting a rant about people with so little of a life that they use multiple identities to cheat on sites where people are rated. On the old Pointask a couple of us resorted to it mainly to counter one idiot that was a flagrant abuser. You only got one shot at a question. If he posted something totally stupid after you answered, you needed to a second identity to counter it. Eventually he died or something and about a half dozen identities disappeared.

There is a lot of cheating on Yahoo Answers that way.

[jz78817]

No.

[Silver Tyger]

Not in an attempt to fool people. I've had multiple characters that I acted out in real time in chats and email groups, but everyone knew that all three were me.

[LegsAkimbo]

I had a Facebook page in my name, with a few known friends. Then I decided in a moment of insanity to play Farmville. Well, I didn't want those actual friends to be subjected to endless updates about how I made honey or harvested eggplants or whatever I was doing, so I created a fake person to play Farmville on Facebook; with help from a real friend I accumulated enough "friends" (who I did not know outside the game in any way) to play the game. I shortly grew tired of the game. However, I have stayed logged in under the fake name. I "like" things under that name and have just stuck with it in Facebook. But that might not count as creating an identity since I haven't done much with it otherwise.

[Siam Sam]

I am secretly at least two of the Mods on this Board.

[florez]

It seems a waste of time, and a little schizoid.

[Pai325]

No. My two dogs have Facebook pages, and once in a while I will post Arf to someone as a joke, but they all know it's me and not the dog.

Once the cat gets one though, maybe I will let them think it's she.

[septimus]

I posted a few times on Usenet pretending to be a right-winger. It was less for fun, than a sincere attempt to help people see, via reductio ad absurdem, the foolishness of certain positions. In one post I proved, via Biblical scripture, that Christian martyrs get even more virgins in Paradise than Islamic martyrs.

I started getting fan mail ("Bravo! I wish I were as articulate as you.") which led me to abandon the endeavor.

[Rushgeekgirl]

Yes I did, mostly because I wanted to keep my identity completely secret. I enjoyed making up stories and it was a challenge to keep it all straight for so long. Everyone in the group knows now though. Nobody caught on in eight years; I decided to come clean on my own. My real life had become so complicated with a new baby I didn't have it in me to keep going.

I kind of miss the escape from reality sometimes.

[Max the Immortal]

Nope.

[ZipperJJ]

Been on boards and BBSes since about 1993. Never was anything but me. No way I could keep track of anything more than myself :)

[TriPolar]

I'm online and I have multiple personalities. Not MPD, I'm just moody. Does that count?

[Corcaigh]

Not multiple personalities per se, I was on a board years ago (long dead I should imagine), a guy on there took a fancy to me (he being about 5'2" to my 5'11-and-a-bit). It wasn't a normal "phwoar I fancy her" type thing, but an ugly stalker fetish thing and he followed me around the internet for about 3 years, as I'd stupidly used the same name everywhere.

Once I copped on how he was following me, I started using different names for different sites, and had my name changed on old sites where possible.


In another situation I'd a friend who was a complete luddite who ran a boarding kennel. I suggested she get herself a website and email, she refused (convinced that the internet was all paedophiles and porn), so I set up a website and email address for her and would answer emails as her. She inadvertently ended up becoming a rehoming 'shelter' as well, so I impersonated her on some dog message boards for a while as well to find homes for the dogs

[longhair75]

Years ago, there was a teenaged girl who participated in an AOL chat room. She was always involved in any drama was unfolding among the regulars, and started quite a lot of he drama herself. After a couple of years of this it turned out that Agnes was actually a man in his forties who managed a tire store in Florida.

[CatherineZeta]

I used to have a MySpace account for F. Scott Fitzgerald and would write back as if I were him when people contacted me. He had like 1000 friends or something. I think it's still there.

I was 16 when I made it. I'm still a literary geek, but I wouldn't go that far anymore.

[thelabdude]

Not pointed at anybody here, but I have suggested some people need to check Ebay and see if they can buy a life. It is their only chance.

[TheBori]

Again, not in an attempt to fool anyone. I do have 2 LinkedIn accounts. One for voice work, one for my real work. Different industries, different links. I am, however, linked to myself.

[manila]

Didn't we have a thread a few years ago about some guy wanting assistance in creating his fake British persona for some message board he was on. It was a bit weird he was pretending to be some type of academic or maybe barrister I think.

[BigT]

Not exactly an alternate personality, but I do have slightly different typing styles on different message boards, in a probably vain attempt to keep people from linking me For example, I tend to rarely write one sentence replies here, but do it often elsewhere.

I also once took on a different personality when using one of those secret honesty boxes on Facebook to keep an old friend from figuring out who I was. (No, I wasn't saying anything mean--quite the reverse.) She actually did figure it out, but I successfully got her to decide it couldn't be me.

[jjimm]

Yeah, when I was a teen in the 1980s on Prestel Daisy Chat, me, my brother and a friend created a mentally subnormal character called "Motorbik Mike". He couldn't spell and was obsessed with motorcycles, but actually only owned a beat-up BMX. He would make assinine comments and generally fuck with people.

Should we send more food aid to Ethiopia?

do yu want t talk wit me about motorbiks i like motorbiks they are grate

[njtt]

Yes.


































No.

[jjimm]

Yes.


































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[dzero]

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Well played. :cool:

[Sister Vigilante]

I'm on a roleplaying board. Even when we're not roleplaying, but talking about real life, we'll often stay in character. I have 5 characters. 4 females, 1 male. I only really use one though, since it's an admin account and I don't want to re-login every time I need to do something administrative, but they are quite separate individual personalities. Some people know who is me, some don't. The longer you've been on the board, the more likely you are to figure it out. Everyone else on the board is the same way. One thing I won't do is have conversations with myself under the separate accounts.

[sniz]

Not online, and not quite a personality, but oftentimes at work I'll get sucked into conference calls with people in other departments, some of which are daily or weekly and can go on for a few weeks or months. I'll oftentimes adopt a unique "personality" or accent or whatever for the duration of those.

I've been Southern sniz, Mellow sniz, sniz who works from home and there's always someone knocking on the door, sniz that speaks.... very... carefully... , Corporate Buzzword sniz, faaaabulous sniz, among others.