The Clash of Identities

Today I made a serious mistak— I commented on a blog under this psuedoname rather than the one I would typically use for commented on their website. I forgot I was still logged into this one. It’s comforting to note that I did not identify myself in any manner that could be linked to my other psuedoname, but it leaves me still rattled. What if I had? What if I bridged the gap between the name I normally use on said blogs and the name I choose to use here? People I talk to everyday know me by that other psuedoname and they know my real name. I write a blog under that name too, which I know some of them subscribe to.

It leaves me asking: What if I had?

I can tell you I’d be shooting an email towards the author of said blog requesting that it be deleted, and I would trust them to do so, they seems to be a very geniuene and good-willed person. Even so, it stirs me to think of what might happen if I commented on another’ s webpage who hardly reads their email or gets too much of it to actually get to it in a timely manner.

This gives me much pause… I will be more careful in the future.

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~ by TJ on July 30, 2010.