# If you were to become famous what would your online existence say about you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 17, 2003, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-to-become-famous-what-would-your-online-existence-say-about-you/213658 "2003-11-17T06:51:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-to-become-famous-what-would-your-online-existence-say-about-you/213658/1 "2003-11-17T06:51:19Z")
If you were to become someone very famous, what would your online internet existence say about you? (message boards, web sites, etc.). If it were me the National Enquirer would probably have a few things to say ;). ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-to-become-famous-what-would-your-online-existence-say-about-you/213658/2 "2003-11-17T06:59:23Z")
Probably everything I’ve written with the knowledge that it will probably be drudged up by someone, at some point. It might demonstrate I have, to some extent, terrible luck. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-to-become-famous-what-would-your-online-existence-say-about-you/213658/3 "2003-11-17T07:14:26Z")
“What a dork!” ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-to-become-famous-what-would-your-online-existence-say-about-you/213658/4 "2003-11-17T07:49:35Z")
“There were plenty of warning signs.” ---
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-to-become-famous-what-would-your-online-existence-say-about-you/213658/5 "2003-11-17T08:32:04Z")
boring, perverted, good friend, asshole, great guy, honest, insane, sweet, straight talker, mean, cuts to the point, loser, bad spelling butthole (actual quote), incoherent past 1am but posts anyway. And that’s just from my IM programs like ICQ. I have no idea how dopers think about me. More then one thinks that I’m stupid I’m sure, but my relationship advice seems to be going over well. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-to-become-famous-what-would-your-online-existence-say-about-you/213658/6 "2003-11-17T10:57:26Z")
“This is the kind of person you want as a role model for our _children?!?_” I have no intention of running for public office, and for most other forms of fame, doing and saying things that offend the offensensitive is just more publicity. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-to-become-famous-what-would-your-online-existence-say-about-you/213658/7 "2003-11-17T11:04:49Z")
“How did he have time to do \?” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-to-become-famous-what-would-your-online-existence-say-about-you/213658/8 "2003-11-17T12:19:27Z")
“What the hell is he talking about?” ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-to-become-famous-what-would-your-online-existence-say-about-you/213658/9 "2003-11-17T12:28:12Z")
“Kind of a pervert, actually.” ---
**Author:** ![LibrarySpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f9ae1b/32.png) [@LibrarySpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LibrarySpy)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-to-become-famous-what-would-your-online-existence-say-about-you/213658/10 "2003-11-17T17:26:11Z")
I often, because I’m arrogant, wonder how my online friends will find out if I’m seriously injured or killed in the real world. I mainly spend my online time in one of two interrelated role-playing gaming activities, and there are one or two people from each group who would make the phone call and say “Where the heck is **Rysler**?!” I can’t imagine it going the other way–My parents figuring out how to contact my online friends. There are a couple of outliers who would never know what happened. When I’m giving the interview about my great American novel, I’ll be sure to mention Xena fiction and the Straight Dope. To make me sound trendy and intelligent. But if a crafty reporter googled, me, it’d be all about the Star Trek geekiness. Luckily, my soul-revealing livejournal and pornography pickings are intentionally obscure. One hopes. Any run at office would be quickly squelched. “Gave money to the EFF and Nifty? Terrorist.” ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-to-become-famous-what-would-your-online-existence-say-about-you/213658/11 "2003-11-18T00:20:26Z")
Did she forget to take her medication? ---
**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-to-become-famous-what-would-your-online-existence-say-about-you/213658/12 "2003-11-18T00:30:58Z")
“Should be jailed for the chonic abuse of the humble comma. Comes across as having a better dress sense online. Run-along sentences were an early indicator for his life as the Governer of California”