Almost everyone I know knows I spend a fair bit of time online. And that I am a sci-fi fan and bit of a geek. Close friends know I'm a slasher (though they don't really think about it cause they have my early (and only) slash stories to laugh and laugh and laugh over...)
My closest RL friend is on my friends list. Apart from him I try to make sure no one in real life associates dubhartach with me. (early on I may have used it as my main AIM/MSN name, I don't now). I keep a seperate LJ for real life stories/holiday tales, photos etc that I want to share with friends and family. The RL friend is on the friends list of that, so he is as hidden as possible so no one can backtrack. (if you know me in RL and were to go looking for me on the internet and were to discover this LJ I reckon you'd be fairly sure it was me).
Why all the secrecy? Partly I don't like the thought that people may know something about me that I didn't want them too. Partly, while I can laugh about liking slash in general to RL friends I don't fancy explaining it to my parents. Nor do I want to get into a debate about teacher/student, chan, incest etc with RL people.
Workwise that last bit could be a bit of a disaster (I work in a hospital) so no anecdotes that might ID me and lots of effort not to leave a "trail" if I totallly can't help checking while at work.
My current "argh" about all this is I started my del.icio.us with my real name, use it for research tracking and of course it is googleable. So all my fannish stuff is not shared. Which I wish wasn't the case but not a lot I can do about it.
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My closest RL friend is on my friends list. Apart from him I try to make sure no one in real life associates dubhartach with me. (early on I may have used it as my main AIM/MSN name, I don't now). I keep a seperate LJ for real life stories/holiday tales, photos etc that I want to share with friends and family. The RL friend is on the friends list of that, so he is as hidden as possible so no one can backtrack. (if you know me in RL and were to go looking for me on the internet and were to discover this LJ I reckon you'd be fairly sure it was me).
Why all the secrecy? Partly I don't like the thought that people may know something about me that I didn't want them too. Partly, while I can laugh about liking slash in general to RL friends I don't fancy explaining it to my parents. Nor do I want to get into a debate about teacher/student, chan, incest etc with RL people.
Workwise that last bit could be a bit of a disaster (I work in a hospital) so no anecdotes that might ID me and lots of effort not to leave a "trail" if I totallly can't help checking while at work.
My current "argh" about all this is I started my del.icio.us with my real name, use it for research tracking and of course it is googleable. So all my fannish stuff is not shared. Which I wish wasn't the case but not a lot I can do about it.
So, that't the long long version of me!