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by stjohnswarts
1572 days ago
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Isn't this in reverse??? A lot of people on Facebook know who I am. I was in TONS of forums and no one had a clue who I was in real life and my accounts weren't connected with anything other than a made up email for "confirmation" purposes and promptly deleted. |
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On social media groups and public posts, you are named but you are nobody to everyone else.
On forums, you are unnamed but you gather a reputation and become somebody.
(And on HN and Reddit, you are both unnamed AND a nobody.)
And I think it’s because on forums, it was a combination of (1) a smaller community and (2) you had an avatar and sometimes a signature, which made every post of yours memorable.