On Topic Discussion People using fake names.

[Beachguyj]

I've been looking for a roommate and the first guy said his name was Wayne, when his email and Google search of his name was Dwayne,

Then I get another guy who says his name is Peter but his email says a fully name and the first name is Timmy.

I've used fake initials in some emails, but when I talk to a person I always say my first real name when talking to someone. I don't get it.

 

[EJMichaels]

A name can be considered just another label, a placeholder for you, not a big deal. I'm used to people using different names in the BDSM community for the (hopefully) obvious need to be discreet, but there can be other reasons. Information has a way of going to unintended places and I see nothing wrong with using a different name.

It could also be for reasons unrelated to privacy/security -- a personal preference of some sort. I have a very common first name and like having different names for different situations.

Even so, I agree it feels a bit "wrong" to find out the person you've known for a while actually has another name, but I try to keep an open mind.

 

[Essex Boy]

My impression is that this is more common than we realise. I know quite a few people who call themselves by a different name from the one they were given. Not a diminutive or a nickname, just a completely different name. I haven't used my "real" name face to face since I left school, but I still sign it on cheques, etc. and my family still use it. My mother told me she didn't even know what her own baptismal name was until she got married and saw her birth certificate for the first time.

 

[HoodedRat]

My impression is that this is more common than we realise. I know quite a few people who call themselves by a different name from the one they were given. Not a diminutive or a nickname, just a completely different name.

I've used several different names (for various reasons) during the course of my life, only three of which appear on my birth certificate.

 

[Beachguyj]

The odd thing is they know there is an HOA here and they have to pass a background check, so using a fake first name is kinda stupid.

I know people sometimes go by another name, but then you should set up your email with that different name too.

I don't even have my full name on my Facebook and it's funny when my friends call me by my FB name. It's kind of an abbreviation of my name.

 

[gsdx]

I've used several different names (for various reasons) during the course of my life, only three of which appear on my birth certificate.

My guess is that 'Billy-Joe Jim-Bob' isn't one of them.

 

[JohnnyAnger]

I've been looking for a roommate and the first guy said his name was Wayne, when his email and Google search of his name was Dwayne,

Then I get another guy who says his name is Peter but his email says a fully name and the first name is Timmy.

I've used fake initials in some emails, but when I talk to a person I always say my first real name when talking to someone. I don't get it.

The difference between saying your name is Wayne, when its actually Dwayne is nothing - maybe he does not like the name Dwayne, so picked a name similar to it.

The Peter/Timmy thing is a bit different - but is it just his email that says his name is Timmy? If his a younger guy, it might have just been a joke email address that has become his man one. I have known people with really really dumb email addresses use them for a while.

 

[LeicsDom]

I think you can legally call yourself any first name you want.
So long as you re not doing it for fraudulant purposes no-one cares

 

[secondmonkey]

There is nothing wrong with using a fake name on an email account you use to look for a future roommate, I assume this is a craigslist post? My name on my email that I use for craigslist is "George Bush". To be honest, using your full real name, on an email to strangers, is stupid. I don't think an email address should include a name.

And yes, I find pretty much all of my tenants on craigslist. They almost always have a different name than the one that came with their first email. It doesn't phase me. Just signed a guy on a 3 year lease, his name is Jeff, but his email name is Joe Flow. Most people have a second email address they use for stuff like this.

Now, if you talk to them on the phone and he says his name is Bob, and then he shows up at your house with an ID that says Steven, that would be a concern...

 

[MoufOfKhaos]

Maybe they don't want you doing what you just did - for private or personal reasons. And I don't see the problem with the first one - maybe, like most people, he goes by a different, shorter version of his name.

All my emails that are not related to business are fake names, and no email shows my full name(because people, must like you did, will try to look it up in order to exploit it). My full name is only needed by people if i'm signing something that requires it.

 

[G-Lexington]

I've never liked my first name. As soon as I went to college, I introduced myself by a nickname (unrelated to my legal name), and that's the name I've gone by since. Only my parents and the government call me by my legal name.

Lex

 

[peeonme]

I go by a shorter version of my middle name, it's what choose when I was old enough to decide what I liked.

 

[bort138]

I go by the initials of my first and middle names. No one calls me by my "real" first name except doctors and the like. Not even my parents.

 

[Kahaih]

People who have nothing to hide, don't.

'Have nothing' being the key words – 'have nothing to steal' or 'have nothing to protect' or 'have nothing to offer' etc.

 

[TickTockMan]

I go by RJ and Toad. I only use my real name when I have to.


I have family that don't even know my real name.

 

[Beachguyj]

There is a difference between being slow to reveal personal identification and using an alias.

Being secure and private do not require fake identities. An honest man can simply say that he is waiting.

There are so many shady people skirting around cloaked with people who are no threat, except to whatever they are hiding.

The internet has encouraged sleaze, pure and simple. Most of the name games are just that, people behaving dodgily.

A liar is a liar.

and in this case it wouldn't make sense for them to lie. It would just make them look bad. I'm renting a room but they would have to be approved by the HOA and submit ID and SS card.

One site I was looking for roommates on forced you to add your first name to even browse how it works, so I put a fake name in.

Then it was in, but when a guy called I told him my real name and explained, but he didn't ask and didn't qualify anyway because of his age.

 

[Beachguyj]

I've been looking for a roommate and the first guy said his name was Wayne, when his email and Google search of his name was Dwayne,

Then I get another guy who says his name is Peter but his email says a fully name and the first name is Timmy.

I've used fake initials in some emails, but when I talk to a person I always say my first real name when talking to someone. I don't get it.

Actually he said his name was Layne and it was really Wayne, but the funny thing is I didn't understand him and I thought he was saying Wayne, which I didn't know while talking to him that it was his name.

Also people have Americanized versions of their names. I had a friend names Bill, but his legal name was Guillermo which is William in Spanish.

 

[cgymike]

Dwayne was a horrible person in east texas!

 

[Taralen]

I've legally changed my birth name and support anyone else who does. I think it's duck shit that we have to live society by the name our parents gave us when we had no say in it whatsoever.

 

[Felixpot]

I have so many different nicknames most of which don't sound anywhere close to my actual name. When I was growing up I had a nickname that everyone used; family, friends, teachers and coaches included.

I chose Felix for here just because I think it's a really cool name.