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I sometimes feel like an outsider
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When reading the answers I've noticed that people regularly use first names as well as user names. Just interested in how everyone knows each other. My first name is the same as a prolific AB user so it could be very confusing. Isn't that what user names are for? Have never knowingly met an ABer so just curious.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Sometimes people sign off from posts giving their real name (Buenchico/Chris for example) and once you've been around for a bit you tend to pick up on who seems comfortable with their real name being used. I think some are FB friends too but I don't think they use real names on here on that basis alone. There are also nicknames used (I don't think TTFN's real name is Ena - although it might be - but she uses an Ena Sharples Avatar often). Don't worry about feeling you don't fit in - we've all been/are still there :)
When I started posting on CB, I posted 17 answers (on 17 different threads) before anyone even acknowledged my presence (and then I got several people telling me that I should leave CB and stick to the 'serious' parts of this site). So 'feeling like an outsider' is something that many (most?) of us will have been through. (You simply need to keep plugging away!)
I generally 'sign' my posts with my real name in the serious sections but not on CB. (It's just a quirk of mine. It doesn't signify anything). However people who post in both areas tend to use my real name here in CB as well.
I'm surprised that you've seen many other first names because I don't know that many myself (and I've been around here for quite some time now!). With just one exception (an American user who I met up with to give him a guided tour of Paris) I've also never knowingly met any other user of this site but there are quite a few people here who either know each other 'face to face' or simply on Facebook.
I generally 'sign' my posts with my real name in the serious sections but not on CB. (It's just a quirk of mine. It doesn't signify anything). However people who post in both areas tend to use my real name here in CB as well.
I'm surprised that you've seen many other first names because I don't know that many myself (and I've been around here for quite some time now!). With just one exception (an American user who I met up with to give him a guided tour of Paris) I've also never knowingly met any other user of this site but there are quite a few people here who either know each other 'face to face' or simply on Facebook.
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