I have similar problems when playing MMORPGs, and I get on ventrillo, or Teamspeak.  Do you refer to people via their character name, or their real name?  Should I refer to my husband under his real name or character name?  It gets very confusing.

It’s strange...I guess it depends on the person with me.  If I’ve met them in real life, then usually I don’t....but if someone emails me with their real name, I still prefer to call them by their blog name.

However, my best friend and I, who met through the internet scene a few years ago, still call each other Foo and Snackie

I would probably call a blogger by their Blogger Name as well. I don’t see myself calling Mr. Fab by his real name, even though I know what it is. The same goes for you. I know your real name but even when I email and what not, I still call you Watchdog or some variation of it.

I do that too.  When I was filling out addys for xmas cards it felt weird to write their real names.  Just like for me, you’re Watchdog not *******.

I’m confused.

Their secret blog was authored by their real name?? How is that a secret then??

It gets confusing with all the pseudonyms but I keep all you males straight in my dreams somehow… LOL!

I find myself referring to my hubby by his nickname on my blog “not a grampy”.

Hmm.... I think it depends on the person and how well their pseudonym fits them like a “name” when said out loud.

When people call me “Miss Britt” instead of “Britt” it sounds weird to me.  I call “avitable” Adam because “avitable” in daily conversation sounds weird.

I call you “dawg” most of the time if I’m talking about you to someone else.  But there are lots of other bloggers whose pseudonyms may be initials or whatever that I call by their first name when talking to or about them.

But Poppy is always gonna be Poppy.

Yah, I’m always gonna call you Dawg.  And you’re totally a dirty dawg.  (hehehe)

Acknowledging Briit’s statement, when people started calling me Poppy instead of Stef in real life it freaked me the fuck out, but now I’m used to it.  It’s been my pseudonym since I was 13 so I might as well embrace it.  I’m much more honest with people as Poppy anyway.

I told a World of Warcraft friend that even if I found out their real name, they would always be their game name to me. haha. I have almost called my husband by his World of Warcraft name, and sometimes I think I would even turn to look behind me if someone called me by that name. Even when I find out the real names of people, I call them by their gaming name.

If we ever met in real life, though, Lynda is my name. I don’t know why I didn’t make something up at the time. But when I have gone to secret blogs, where a name might be changed, I sometimes have to remind myself that “Oh, yeah, it’s this person.”

And I have two secret blogs. One I share with a few people, the other is all my own.

So, yeah, you aren’t crazy. Or I am crazy with you. Maybe even crazier than you.

I’ll never forgot the first time a friend called me B offline. I didn’t answer her. We were in a hotel room on vacation and she’d call my “name” to get my attention for whatever reason and it wouldn’t even register! Then I was like “Oh! That’s ME!” Now I’m pretty use to it!

I was on a plane, I wasn’t gonna call myself Poppy on a plane.  As it was, everyone in front of me turned around to look at me when I said into my phone, “hey, it’s Stef.” I assure you, I would never try to take The Steff’s place.  I would never chop anybody up for calling me Poppy, except in bed.

Hey - so long as you tug on the hair a bit when you’re screaming out my name, I don’t care what the hell ya call me! :D

PLAYA. :D

So, let me get this straight.....you’re saying that your real name isn’t “Dawg”?  I’m confused....

“If indeed I ever ended up in the throes of heated sexual passion with a fellow blogger, I probably would call them by their blogger name as opposed to their real name. ”

Does this mean I have a shot at this actually happening, or were you just writing in general?  (grin)

Can I call you on the phone, too? (cheesy smile)

J. (not my real name, but the first initial of my real name)

I don’t hate the game or the player, I’m just not playing.  Spectator. 

I can live with “Hoosier”.....just so long as you don’t start calling me ”Hooter Girl” as my buddy “Coffeypot” has started doing!

I was just teasing you about the phone.  Really.

What if I dyed my hair red? (hee, hee)
J.

I do not deny this.  A lil to the left please and more sound.

Um, I’m not getting cured of my love for voyeurism.  I’m just getting comfy.

Fortunately for me, of the three girls I am closest too only one uses a pseudonym and it was actually pretty easy to re-associate her with her real name. 

Now then, I have been called Lucy by fellow bloggers that know my real name....and it’s kind of okay.  I kind of like the name.  =)

I do not work at Hooters.  I am a very boring, ordinary teacher.  The nickname came from a BlogTalk radio show that we both called in on...and I gave the guys hell for pretending to go to Hooters “for the wings”.  Yeah right.
So now the guys say they will take me out to eat....but only if I agree to eat at Hooters.

My drapes and carpet match just fine, thank you.

J.  

I stopped writing on my real blog and made this my real blog.  I will be legally changing my name to Chatty B. Tawkin so I don’t screw up.  The problem is that my dogs have a blog and I am not Chatty on that blog.  How about that! LOL I’ve met bloggers on my bogroll in real life and it is weird to have them call me by my real name when I know they want to call me Chatty.

I’m always calling mah bitches by their blog names (Lucy, Monique) even when we are in person LOL And then I realize what I did and say “ooops I mean....."and give their real name

I’ve gone by the nickname Soda/Sodapop since 1989, so I answer to that just like my real name.  Scary really.  LOL

I do that with a lot of the people’s real names I know.  I’ll call them by their real name while talking on the phone or in person to another blogger and they look at me all askew. 

Good luck on NOT using the blogger name

on the Vegas trips my friends take for World of Warcraft… everyone calls eachother by their gaming name… same with my message board… I know I’ll answer to Tori no matter what…

I cannot imagine anyone calling out USED TO BE ME during the throws of passion but hey, if you wanna, knock yourself out! 

My family knows about one of my blogs but I don’t think they read it and if they did, they’d be bored as hell since it is mostly ad crap and my piece of the pay per post pie while it lasts.  If they read my stalker blog, they’d be hurt and sad and that is my place to vent honestly without censor. 

I do however envy to a small degree people who blog with their real name or pictures becuase I’m too chicken. 

As for the few bloggers I have “met” online, I associate them with their screen name first, real name second.

I like how you specifically say that you would have “undoubtedly spent time” with someone before getting it on. Makes you seem like less of a pervy manwhore who thinks about banging fellow bloggers.

My first blog was called “The Rock Bitch” because I have a friend who has called me “The Rock Bitch” for years.  People started calling me RB when I started my blog...to shorten it.  I kinda miss that blog because deep in my heart I know that I’ll always be The Rock Bitch.

I was born with the name Lisa.  Can’t change that however how cool would it to use the name Rock Bitch in the throes of heated sexual passion?

Well a girl can dream can’t she?

I was about to say I only have one blog, but I realized I have two.  And while I give my real name on both of them I rarely link my charity one to my personal one, as I’m going to be directing a lot of acquaintances and workmates to the charity one and I’m not sure I want them on my personal one.

That was a rather convoluted sentence but I just wanted to put my two pennys in.

Yeah.  It’s really hard for me to call Poppy and Fab by their real names on facebook.  It just doesn’t sound right.

I’m late to this party (as usual!) but I agree with you, Dawg.  The name under which you get to know a person does tend to stick, especially if it suits them. 

Poppy is totally Poppy to me and it takes me a second each time I have to refer to her by her real name.  I keep at it, though, so it’s getting better with time.

This makes me think that the more time you spend with someone OFFline, the more their real name would become the main identifier.  I think the blog i.d. would eventually fade awat.

See?  That was exactly my point about Hooters:  if you go to Hooters for the girls, admit it!!  Don’t pretend you go for the stupid hot wings.  That’s like saying you read Playboy for the articles!  These guys were going on and on about how delicious the wings were and how they didn’t even notice the girls’ boobs!  Sorry, but I don’t buy it.

And yes, being a teacher has its moments.  But it is generally not considered a glamorous careet.

J.

Abs, I have the same proble with Dawg’s real name.

Sour, I *don’t* have the same problem with your real name, for whatever reason.

Oops, I meant “career”.  Can’t type tonight.
J.

Yes, I can say that I have called Tense Teacher “Tense” in public. Haven’t done that in the bedroom, that would be like cheating I think. You know not calling the real name…

When I found out your real name I do distinctly recall mentioning that I could not call you by it.  It’s just not *you* to *me*.

Two people who read my blog know my real name - and I have never met either of them.  Both call me by my blogger name via comments and email, and when occasionally they type my real name into an email, it feels weird.  I am not sure why, but I definitely don’t like it.  Similarly, I never called people by anything other than their blogger names even if I know their real names.  If I met them in person, perhaps things would change, but I doubt it.  As someone above noted, Mr Fab is Mr Fab.

If you’re in a non-thinking and instinctive mode, and you are a watchdog at heart, does that mean you bark? ‘Cause if your 30-minute round-trip walk is to a no-pet hotel, that could get you in trouble with management ... so much to think about before one plans a tryst, no?!?

Odd.  I talk to other people, say you, about another blogger and say their real name and then have to give you their screen name.

But I find myself calling Jane, Jane which isn’t her name but it just sorta fits her.

My name is dull, my screen name is dull but people seem to like the screen name better.  I answer to it and I don’t mind ig someone slips up and calls me that.

But screaming OH GOD MISS ANN makes it sound sorta dominatrix-esque, don’t ya think?

My secret blog has no author name or profile because if I’m the only one reading it (which is crucial for the blog’s existence), who would need to address me? 

I don’t think I would find it hard to address a blogger by their real name in person, but it might just seem easier than it actually is because I haven’t had blogger friends for all that long and because I’ve never actually met any of them.

2 bloggers know my real name.  If they or any of my other blogger friends were to meet me, I imagine my real name would be more convenient than my blog name.  If someone shortened it and randomly yelled out “Hey Girl,” I can’t guarantee that I’d automatically know I was the one being addressed.

Sometimes my husband answers the phone and says, “I think it’s one of your blogging friends.”

I say, “How do you know?”

He says, “Your meat friends don’t ask for Golf Widow.”