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. 
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 
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.
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
Pointless?
Are you trying to tell us something?
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: 
No; I find it hard enough attempting to create one personality.
No.
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.
No.
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.
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.
I am secretly at least two of the Mods on this Board.
It seems a waste of time, and a little schizoid.
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.
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.
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.
Nope.
Been on boards and BBSes since about 1993. Never was anything but me. No way I could keep track of anything more than myself 