Does It Feel Weird to Be Called by Your FlyerTalk Name in Person?
Aug 20, 2006, 4:12 pm
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Originally Posted by Canarsie
What are your thoughts and experiences on this topic?
It is hard for me to remember a real name when I've memorized their handle to their face when the introduction occurs.
I'm very poor with names, perhaps I should bring a notepad and write everyone's names down as I do when I meet a client for the first time. @:-)
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Aug 20, 2006, 4:45 pm
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I find I record phone numbers by handles until I get to know them really well, then they get altered over to real names. As a do organiser, I do try to learn and remember first names though, as I just think it's bad form at a do I'm organising not to know people's first names - particularly since I'll be asked through an evening who such and such is.
Aug 20, 2006, 5:28 pm
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Originally Posted by Jenbel
I find I record phone numbers by handles until I get to know them really well, then they get altered over to real names.
Forgot to answer the OP
It did feel weird to begin with but now I don't mind at all.
Aug 20, 2006, 5:43 pm
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Originally Posted by Jenbel
As a do organiser, I do try to learn and remember first names though, as I just think it's bad form at a do I'm organising not to know people's first names - particularly since I'll be asked through an evening who such and such is.
you can call me ... eh... chris
Aug 20, 2006, 5:44 pm
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About half the people at work call me Jeffie... the others use things that would make "Canarsie-isms" pale in comparison
I've only managed to make it to a single DO so far, but that is changing rapidly. Some people are obviously 'John and Mary' while others are more suited to their FT monikers.
Rather than a lot of postings, I tend to hang out on LiveChat. It's more of a 'real' first name basis there.
So, back to the topic at hand... it's not at all weird for me, but addressing, or introducing someone as 'AAEXPlatRoadWarrior' (my apologies if such a handle exists, nothing personal) might seem a little strange, indeed.
I've only managed to make it to a single DO so far, but that is changing rapidly. Some people are obviously 'John and Mary' while others are more suited to their FT monikers.
Rather than a lot of postings, I tend to hang out on LiveChat. It's more of a 'real' first name basis there.
So, back to the topic at hand... it's not at all weird for me, but addressing, or introducing someone as 'AAEXPlatRoadWarrior' (my apologies if such a handle exists, nothing personal) might seem a little strange, indeed.
Aug 20, 2006, 6:25 pm
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Originally Posted by Jenbel
I just think it's bad form at a do I'm organising not to know people's first names - particularly since I'll be asked through an evening who such and such is.
Aug 20, 2006, 7:51 pm
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It seems normal to me. It's sort of like nicknames you have with a particular group of friends. In truth, I can barely connect one name to a face, much less two.
In fact there are people I've met many times that I still think of by their FT names and have to work hard to translate to the real world.
Drives Mr. lili nuts when he meets them with their real names, and I refer to them by FT handles.
In fact there are people I've met many times that I still think of by their FT names and have to work hard to translate to the real world.
Drives Mr. lili nuts when he meets them with their real names, and I refer to them by FT handles.
Aug 20, 2006, 7:59 pm
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Originally Posted by Canarsie
However, whenever I meet FlyerTalk members in person and I have done so for greater than two years now I do not usually respond to the name Canarsie, as I am not used to hearing people call me that. This is especially true when the pronunciation of Canarsie is mangled: Hey, Canarise! or Good to meet you, Carnarsie!
Instead, I insist that I please be addressed by my given first name, as I believe should be done once people meet in person. Sometimes I have to remind people several times to please do so.
My California native son, xavier9, who thinks Brooklyn might be some place on the moon and speaks no French, thought Carnarsie was French and still refers to you as something like Carh-nah-see-eh with the accent on the last syllable.
Aug 20, 2006, 8:54 pm
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absolutely
Originally Posted by Gardyloo
If I'm called by my handle in Scotland everybody runs into a doorway.
Aug 20, 2006, 9:34 pm
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People have enough trouble pronouncing my handle, they rarely even try.