meeting members and sg's in real life

here's a dumb question (and i'm known for asking dumb questions). do you call members and sg's by their member name? how do you introduce yourself? do you give your real name? obviously, i have yet to meet anyone in person, so i do not know. and after you get over my initial dumb question, here's another.

what's your real name? (first name since i'm not actively planning on stalking anyone yet).

Obviously, tabbycat is not my real name. I will answer to tabby, though.

I'm Chris ... Chris P. ... i'm soft in the head so it makes it all easy.

[Edited on Jan 05, 2004 by crispy]

hey, i answer to jizz...old nickname. i was just wondering since the burlesque show is coming up and am wondering if i should try to find out people's names before hand or call them by their member names unless told otherwise. :/

ive still never met a person from the internet in real life. am i a part of the minority or the majority? id imagine i would be pretty nervous the first time. there was a gathering in tampa several months ago that i planned on going to, but had to ditch due to professional constraints

At the one event I've gone to so far most people seemed to introduce themselves by thier real name, then say what their screen name was. I guess I would answer to either though, since I really like my screen name.

After awhile people tend to call me this name...I dunno maybe is my obseesion with hypercolors.

There's actually a group of us in the Twin Cities that gets together on a fairly regular basis. We have our core group of like eight, and then another half dozen that make it out when they can. Obviously we've begun to schedule most events around the staple group that hits up everything. No one can ever make every event.

I prefer to call people by their real names. It's to impersonal, in my opinion, to call someone by their screen name. But then again, not everyone is comfortable with that. Understandable. Everyone has their reasons. I usually tell people to call me by my real name instead of "neo" or "drunk"... so they typically choose to call me "ASSHOLE". Fucking pricks.

Yea, when i met people its always My name is ____ but i'm ___ on the site.

but its easy for me.
i'm just kayla

I've met people from other message boards a number of times. I just find being direct works.

just introduce yourself as your screen name first and then your real name second and say you can call me either if you prefer, if indeed you prefer that.

I personally feel kinda like a douche introducing myself as "Max16Characters" but it looks good on screen to it works.

Wait, I thought these were real names!!

ive never been to an event, but ive met three people, and all three i called by their real names, although in one case, it was a moot point *waves to kayla*

Sorcha is another version of my real name (and a nickname in real life), so it really doesn't matter to me.

Personally, I've been using my screenname for so long, and it has enough sentimental value, that I actually tend to identify myself with it. And since I'm already used to answering to a few different names anyway (I go by my middle name, and some idiot decided to make my last name into a first name a few centuries ago), so I'm perfectly happy answering to Daevric.

Typically people will let you know what they want to be called, though. Of the people I met at the last event, by the end of the night, I was calling probably two-thirds of the people by their real name, and the others by their sn, depending on the person (and usually not because I just couldn't remember the other).

I just go, "hey!" and then you go, "hey!"

See? It's simple. You try.

My name is Daniel. But I answer to FreakPirate or simply Freak at events. Or any other time really.

at SGSF events I've noticed most people tend to use screen names. it's a lot easier than having to remember everyone's real name I guess.

hm. Im a Daniel as well. Usually, on other sites in the past, I used the name "Dan" so... Im not too fussed if people know my first name.
Besides.. if someone wanted to find my whereabouts.. anonimity is truly hard to maintain if an indivual is driven enough to find out more "info" as it were.
Besides.. I have guns heheh

If you can guess my first name in three tries, I shall give you a bottle of Gold Stoli. And... I won't take your first born...