Who do you know?

Sometimes people change their nickname because it no longer suits them. My former nick meant nothing to 99% of the posters here.

I guess I must be TOO stuck in a rut. I thought for a long time about my Nic (which I adopted after we came back
to Colorado in 2004). I was S-O-O-O elated to be back that "homeagain" just seemed so correct and so reflecting where I
was mentally......almost a decade later it STILL feels correct.

I changed mine to my actual name because it's who I really am. Think part of the problem with these forums is that they are too often a bad and artificial substitute for real person to person communication. Before the "wonderful" internet, people had to discuss these topics face to face and you knew who you were talking to.

I think people allow their worst qualities to define who they are in the eyes of the people they don't know personally. I think our discussions here would be much different if we all knew each other in real life and spent face to face time getting to really know each other. But since that won't happpen on a large enough scale, we will continue to paint a picture in our minds that is most likely wrong.

Rick wrote: I changed mine to my actual name because it's who I really am. Think part of the problem with these forums is that they are too often a bad and artificial substitute for real person to person communication. Before the "wonderful" internet, people had to discuss these topics face to face and you knew who you were talking to.

I think people allow their worst qualities to define who they are in the eyes of the people they don't know personally. I think our discussions here would be much different if we all knew each other in real life and spent face to face time getting to really know each other. But since that won't happpen on a large enough scale, we will continue to paint a picture in our minds that is most likely wrong.

Pretty SIMPLE solution....it seems.....HATS(Hands Across the Study) was a truly good attempt at creating a "face to face",
and early on in the Study it seemed to work. Posters came and went and THEN the "goodness" was forgotten because the
idea just went 'away".

I'm NOT saying that it would be the panacea to the problem, but it MIGHT help in creating a DIFFERENT paradigm...JMO