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Originally Posted by sophiesmom
An interesting thing happened to me in a chat room. I don't frequent them much, I find it too confusing to keep track of a conversation...
Anyway I said "hi" and the lovely people there said hi back....usually "hi sophies".
One person said "hi, person who identifies as someone's mom" (it was simply off the cuff and completely harmless)......I haven't been able to stop thinking about it.
It was like some kind of wonderful/terrible revelation to me. It seriously gave me food for thought...
When I joined this forum, I identified myself, completely without thinking, as someone's mom....
The funny thing is, I have four wonderful children, and Sophie is the name of my dog....
So it's a kind of funny/sad/pathetic/ "aha" moment.
I'm thinking of changing it.
And I'm wondering if you all thought about your user names and whether you find them to be revealing...
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Hi Sophiesmom,
I think that you should keep your username because it was how you felt comfortable being identified, and now how many of us know you. Even if it was for being the mom of your dog, I saw your username for the first time and thought "oh, a mom-mom or a pet-mom." Nice.
There are points in our lives where we are more highly identified by one thing than another: child, student, spouse, employee. But it doesn't mean we aren't all of these things at the same time some years
I've been in the prime mom years and I'm used to responding to ___'s Mom simply because being out in public with every person hollering "mom" "ma" "mother" there are few identifying ways to distinguish us en mass.
I chose my user name because it had a dual meaning: I am mad about books, and I can book my madness (ha ha) via all of my appointments. It was a play on words that entertained me.
So, long reply somewhat shorter, I think that usernames reveal as much as folks want them too, and sometimes more than they were originally intending.
bookmadness
