Does your identity belong to you?

[Darth Equus]

No! I won't have any more existential dread in my life.

*Rubs his temples and mutters*
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear. I will let it pass over and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. When the fear is gone there will be nothing, only I will remain.

Ah, that's better...

 

[Astridlora]

Don't think anybody else has my name. I've never heard anyone else with this name, and if they do, they are awesome

 

[ZombieKidzRule]

In fairness to what I think is the spirit of the OP, I have seen instances of people online purposefully pretending to be someone they're not. Why? Who knows? Why does anyone do anything?

Why does someone feel the need to lie about their past, their experiences, their qualifications, their education, etc.?

Why do people publicly impersonate police until they get caught?

So I do think it is an interesting question. No, I don't think your given name is your's and your's alone. But take an example of say a very well known and successful social media personality. Who created a very unique identifier. And then someone takes that same identifier and uses it in a manner that hurts the original party. You would think those actions would be a violation of some sort of law, but maybe not.

Anyway, the responses in this thread have been interesting to read at least.

Have the awesome day that you deserve and happy game making!

 

[TheoAllen]

To actually answer the question though. Probably not, but I don't care.

I only care that names are just a kind of noise you make or text you type/write to call me or to get my attention. Yelling "Hey you, come here!" has the same function. A name is just very specific to call me. Let's not forget that someone could also give you a nickname.

So my next question.
if someone gives you a nickname, is it yours? or is it theirs?

 

[Ms Littlefish]

You know, now that I think about it more, it was totally an accident but a consequence of having a twin sister is we sometimes get our SSNs mixed up. Obvs doesn’t happen anymore since we’ve been doing the adult thing for awhile now, but the only digit that’s different is the last one. It was corrected immediately but when I was a brand new adult, I may or may not have totally accidentally used my sister’s SSN on my FASFA.

We have the same initials, the same birthday only a minute apart, and almost the same SSNs…it has never resulted in anything dire but we do get each other’s junk mail and robocalls pretty frequently.

Much more innocent, but when your mom dressed you in matching outfits until you were old enough to dress yourself, it’s endless hours of looking through family photos trying to figure out which kid you are.

 

[AphoticAmaranth]

So my next question.
if someone gives you a nickname, is it yours? or is it theirs?

To 'give' is to transfer ownership of something to others, so it's yours I guess?

 

[Gensun]

@Gensun This conversation feels really pointless. How does it affect your life whether or not our user names are our own and why do you care? Not trying to be rude, but talking about this just feels really ridiculous and pointless to me. I'm sorry-it just does.

Does the thread topic bother you, Spyro?

 

[SpyroFan67]

Does the thread topic bother you, Spyro?

No. I was just wondering why we were talking about this when it has nothing to do with anything RPG Maker or videogame related. I'm just-bored. Of course the topic doesn't bother me, but it also doesn't interest me either because I don't care!

 

[Ms Littlefish]

Fortunately we have so many other threads to post on instead when we don’t care for one.