My secret online identity

It’s late on sunday night, or early monday morning, whatever you call 1.40am, and I really should be in bed since I am going back to work tomorrow after being sick but I can’t sleep, I’ve got a bad case of insomnia. So of course what do all internet geeks do when they have insomnia? They sit in front of the computer and look at stuff on the internet.

Out of curiousity I put in my real name, into Google to see whether I was there. Of course who comes up but the other Andy [hrrm hrrm], the famous actress and mobile Chanel nerve gas cloud. She was pretty much the first and second page. Even sifting through the 42 billion results that came back, I wasn’t in there anywhere. Then I put in my online identity, Padwanna, and the very first link is this very blog! My blog!

Do you know what that means?

No, so stop arseing about and just tell us!

It means that I have a secret identity just like my superhero in City of Heroes I can post anything here on my blog and not at all risk the reputation of my real world self because noone at work knows my secret online identity! It also means I can choose who I tell in the real world about my secret online identity, thus only giving it to people that I know will be able to handle it! How fucking cool is that!? ) I think I’ll call it the S.O.I for short. How would you pronounce that anyway? SOY-EE! Well that’s just dumb, so maybe I won’t call it that!

One of the things I was always a bit worried about was if people at my work or casual aquantainces ever read my blog, or found some of the forums that I write in, what kind of problems that could cause. There is even a term for it now – dooced – to describe losing your job because of your website (it was actually coined for a blog). Now though it seems that to the average person, there really isn’t a way to connect me to my blog. Of course the other way from my blog to me is pretty damn easy, and anyone who wanted to can found out my real name, address and phone number in 5 minutes flat. (Is that like an invitation to be stalked, or what?) Fortunately the chances of me working with someone who reads my blog are pretty small, so I’m not worried about that.

The upshot of all this means that I can actually start writing about some of my more underground activities, and not worry about getting dooced!

I’m so impressed, I can’t wait to tell someone… only I can’t… because it won’t be a secret if I do! Arrggghh… how fucking frustrating! You know, I can totally understand how Batman feels now! This is going to drive me crazy!

Padwanna!

PS: Editors Note: I actually had to take out that actresses real name cause it actually caused a hit in MSN search, which totally blows my cover! Who would have thought in MSN search! Wonders never cease!

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