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wandering tortoise :: Blog :: Playing with Big Brother

March 12, 2008

An nuther project that I have been working on is various uses for online usernames and accounts.

I had the idea to share usernames and accounts on various sites to cause confusion to whom ever may be tracking activity on such sites, for what ever reasons they are so curious. These could be of varying degrees of public access, as the more that share it increase the chances of someone deleting the account, while the fewer who use the accounts will create less confusion.

An nuther application to a smaller shared list of user names can be to creat a pantheon of sorts that can be used in all manner of ways. They could even become ergregore like, growing beyond the original creators.

Different identities can be used dependent upon how one feels or what one wants to exppress, like charactures in a novel or play. 

 I think that this is enough to give a general picture of possibilities.

 Happy Haunting!

t23 

Posted by wandering tortoise


Comments

  1. being a netizen since around 1990, i've found identity fairly flexible on the web these days.  although forum posts are quite often tracked by IP, they do tend to have an amount of intangibility, and fleetingness of existence as well.  it's an interesting idea, but one might find it confusing, and to a certain extent, as a forum manager, one might also find it frutstrating not being able to follow conversations by discrete individuals....

    LoJackLoJack on Thursday, 13 March 2008, 17:38 CDT # |

  2. Yeah, I often forget about the IP part, I use a lot of different computers and wireless, so that gets tweeked a bit more for me.

    Confusion is definately  one of the points. Of course I personally wouldn't do this all the time, but I find it useful.

    wandering tortoisewandering tortoise on Thursday, 13 March 2008, 21:03 CDT # |

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