Cactus Codex

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It just hit me.

If you were to meet your online friends, would you call them by their handle or their real names?

I’d imagine the former being weird as fuck. If someone IRL called me Cactus, I’d freak out.

  1. adurot reblogged this from conspicuouslad and added:
    I don’t know most of my online friend’s “real” names. Also, I frequently get called by my online handle in real life at...
  2. conspicuouslad reblogged this from its-am-chan and added:
    Been experiencing this the last three days. We’ve pretty much been using our online handles with few exceptions, just...
  3. broken-pen said: I’ve been called Übertreiber a couple times. You get used to it.
  4. chaotic-conundrums said: Would you prefer having a bunch of people you’ve never met showing up and knowing your real name?
  5. its-am-chan reblogged this from post-cactus and added:
    I don’t speak for everyone, I know, but to me, it’d be infinitely weirder if they called me by my real name. I’ve gone...
  6. crade-elcin said: I have a lot of friends who call me Crade. Names are nothing. The human mind can adapt VERY FAST to “nonsense” names.. because names in general are nonsense. What’s the difference between a “normal name” and “cactus” after all? Cactus is a great name
  7. siebewastaken said: I don’t mind either, maybe because I’ve been called so many things online anyway.
  8. rainev1 said: I’d probably call them by their handle.
  9. carrotquill said: man i’d call you cactus. and if my friend Rain doesn’t call me Quill at least once when i visit I’m gonna be dissapoint.
  10. noblequicksilver reblogged this from post-cactus and added:
    But cactus, it’d be weird for the person to start calling you by your actual name, instead of your handle.
  11. askkillionlightfeather said: One of my friends Sean calls my Zrinen as part of my gamer tag Darth Zrinen. He also calls my friend Austin, Rome as his gamer tag is Rome12245.
  12. dreamofhircine said: a lot of people i’ve met from online just call me sturm
  13. askblacklin said: Would probably call them by their handle unless I knew what their actual name was.
  14. wheatley-draws said: Well, I know what I’m gonna do if I ever meet you IRL.
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