# Do people you know, who read your posts, think you're a braniac? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 21, 2002, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-you-know-who-read-your-posts-think-youre-a-braniac/120104 "2002-07-21T16:41:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-you-know-who-read-your-posts-think-youre-a-braniac/120104/1 "2002-07-21T16:41:15Z")
Do you have friends who read SDMB? After reading your posts, have they come to think of you as remarkably intelligent? Highly opinionated? Wrong? Just plain weird? (I don’t know of anyone outside SDMB who reads my posts. I’m just wondering.) ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-you-know-who-read-your-posts-think-youre-a-braniac/120104/2 "2002-07-21T16:54:47Z")
Braniac? I don’t think so. Weird? I hope not, but then I would not care. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-you-know-who-read-your-posts-think-youre-a-braniac/120104/3 "2002-07-21T17:06:47Z")
Brainiac? No. No one who’s ever read my stuff thinks I’m a green robot with blinky red lighs on my forehead who fights Superman and shrinks cities to put in bottles. I hope… 😉 Fenris ---
**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-you-know-who-read-your-posts-think-youre-a-braniac/120104/4 "2002-07-21T17:11:06Z")
They really don’t tell me what they think of me after reading my posts. They are still my friends though so I guess that says something. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Darren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Double\_Darren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Darren)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-you-know-who-read-your-posts-think-youre-a-braniac/120104/5 "2002-07-21T18:00:34Z")
My friends tend to think I’m a sexy, intelligent person. That’s fine with me. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-you-know-who-read-your-posts-think-youre-a-braniac/120104/6 "2002-07-21T19:50:49Z")
A friend told me about this board, and I got hooked. He is merely astounded that I am so opinionated. He’s been on the board nearly twice as long as me and has maybe a hundred posts. He is among those people who’ve called me an underachiever, but that was long before the board thing. ---
**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-you-know-who-read-your-posts-think-youre-a-braniac/120104/7 "2002-07-21T20:08:57Z")
Well, no one I know surfs the Boards. If they did, however, they’d spot me in a heartbeat. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-you-know-who-read-your-posts-think-youre-a-braniac/120104/8 "2002-07-21T20:23:06Z")
_Friends?_ You guys have _friends?_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![taggert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/96bed5/32.png) [@taggert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taggert)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-you-know-who-read-your-posts-think-youre-a-braniac/120104/9 "2002-07-21T20:23:32Z")
Friends? I don’t have any friends. Why do you think I post here? My acquaintances all think I’m an idiot, just like the folks here. ---
**Author:** ![taggert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/96bed5/32.png) [@taggert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taggert)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-you-know-who-read-your-posts-think-youre-a-braniac/120104/10 "2002-07-21T20:24:46Z")
HAH! My first SDMB simulpost! Say samclem, will you be my friend? We can lowercase our handles together. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-you-know-who-read-your-posts-think-youre-a-braniac/120104/11 "2002-07-21T20:29:07Z")
I have two before-this-message-board friends that have visited here. One even registered and posted a few times, but the hook didn’t set. I know both of them read stuff I’d posted and I’m reasonably sure it didn’t affect their perception of me one way or another. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-you-know-who-read-your-posts-think-youre-a-braniac/120104/12 "2002-07-22T07:04:21Z")
I have only one lurker friend (even now, his eyes are upon us…) who I turned onto the board that might read my posts. He’s more or less an intellectual peer type who probably could anticipate what I was going to say on any given topic anyway. My other friends out in the meatworld who think I’m a brainiac don’t read my posts because they also think I’m a huge dork for posting regularly on a message board in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-you-know-who-read-your-posts-think-youre-a-braniac/120104/13 "2002-07-22T07:57:13Z")
People I know do read my posts here. They think if me the same way they normally do, since they post here too. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-you-know-who-read-your-posts-think-youre-a-braniac/120104/14 "2002-07-22T08:01:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > \*\*After reading your posts, have they come to think of you as Highly opinionated? Wrong? Just plain weird? > \*\* Yes. Yes. Yes. ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-you-know-who-read-your-posts-think-youre-a-braniac/120104/15 "2002-07-22T09:40:42Z")
My friends are internet-backwards enough to still think that everybody who communicates via the net (other than email) is a lying sicko perv. They wouldn’t read this board if I held them down and forced them to read the page-o-funnies. ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-you-know-who-read-your-posts-think-youre-a-braniac/120104/16 "2002-07-22T12:20:16Z")
The few that I know of that have actually read any of my blather on this board think I’m some kind of super-chef. But braniac? Hardly. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-you-know-who-read-your-posts-think-youre-a-braniac/120104/17 "2002-07-22T13:15:33Z")
He’s a brainnnnnnnnnnnnnniac, brainnnnnnnnnnnniac, ohhhhhhh noooooooooooooooooooo… And he’s thinking like he’s never thought before… ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-you-know-who-read-your-posts-think-youre-a-braniac/120104/18 "2002-07-22T17:57:13Z")
I’m certain **Anthracite and Chronos** are brainiacs. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-you-know-who-read-your-posts-think-youre-a-braniac/120104/19 "2002-07-22T18:11:21Z")
Although I’ve talked up the boards to a number of my friends, I’m not aware that any have bothered to check it out. However, IRL, I’m the person in the office who always seems to be asked the weird and obscure questions, plus spelling and grammar questions. I’ve sent Snopes links and I can Google faster than most of them can finish their questions. And, yeah, they think I’m weird. Dunno how smart they think I am, and I don’t much care. ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-you-know-who-read-your-posts-think-youre-a-braniac/120104/20 "2002-07-23T18:04:36Z")
Not the SMDB, but I got my girlfriend into Fark, and she often wants to know why I have time to post in the Fark forums but not to email her. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-you-know-who-read-your-posts-think-youre-a-braniac/120104.md?page=2)