How Much Do Your Non-ILXing Friends/SOs/Ect Know About Your SECRET INTERWEB MENTALISM?

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― Miles Finch, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

*What* non-interweb friends?

(actually, I do have a few, and they are mostly well aware of my varied interweb mentalisms. The only people who aren't - and it's definitely going to stay that way as long as I can help it - are my work colleagues.)

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

My wife occasionally trawls through ile for laffs, once in a while if I'm on AIM or the progressive ears chat room, but she doesn't really give much of a shit about any of the other interweb mentalist communities I fart around on.

I've tried to get a few other friends onto these things, but they're not really into it.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

if my girlfriend knew she would think i'm such a loser.

actually saying that i showed her something on ILX the other day and she asked what it was.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

I have told only few of my friends about ILX for two reasons...

1) I fear they might think I'm an Internet geek (a couple of my friends found it rather weird that I'd want to post my underwear pictures to an InterWeb message board, or even that I want to have such pictures taken for the sole reason of posting them to a message board).

2) If they ever found their way here I couldn't possibly post the kinda stuff I've posted until now.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

ie, pictures of them?

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

A certain occasional ILXor felt the need to pretend he didn't know me through the internet the other day, which is a bit odd but I'm glad he was thinking of my reputation at the time :)

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

I've now spent 6 years going out with girls I met through internet fora, so most of my friends have asked and been told the story of how we met. Some have looked at me a bit askance, but hell, there are enough other reasons to think I'm a bit weird, I can certainly live with this one.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

People have become aware of them over the last few months, since Glasto really, when I started to allow them to, like, actually mix with each other. I usually tell people they all write for Freakytrigger, though (which, in fairness, most of them do).

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

ie, pictures of them?

No, all of the pictures of my friends I've posted here are publicly available on the Web and decent, so I think it's okay. I would ask for a permission before posting anything private or nasty here.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

They are not aware of the full extent of it.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

You aint seen me, right?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

I was introduced here by one of those friends (Andrew L), and all my other old friends know about this, and some have looked in briefly. I'm not the type to keep secrets from anyone, least of all my best friends.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

they know about it. i don't make a point of it.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

My wife views it w/ suspicion, but not enough to actually launch a full-scale investigation. My son saw my screen name once, and informed me it was completely ridiculous. "Why don't you just use Mark Coleman?" Kids say the darndest things!

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

My husband knows about it, and he thinks it is a bit silly and mentalist (which it is) but I don't go out of my way to tell anybody else.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

I usually tell people they all write for Freakytrigger, though (which, in fairness, most of them do).

I do this too, but I don't know why.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

the people i've told don't really care and i'm just fine with that.

― stockholm cindy's secret childhood (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

can someone start a thread about "how much do your secret/interweb friends know about your NON-ILX/SO/ETC?????"?

I am genuinely intrigued by this, I want to start the thread but people might think i'm taking the piss and call it lame :(

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

The thread would surely have to be titled "how much do your fellow secret/interweb mentalists know about your non-ILXing friends/SO/ETC??"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

I don't have any friends or significant others or ects so I don't give a fuck.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

that's lame, dada

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

that's true, caca

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

move over, darlin

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

DON'T TRY IT

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

Hooray! It's back!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

I think a lot of my friends know about it, to the point where I used to say "this online message board I post on sometimes" and now I just say "ILX." And they know, too, that some of my other friends that I hang out with (the Chicago crew) were met through ILX. Not that that means they've been here themselves, but they're aware of what it is. Although I suppose did get my brother and best friend to post here occasionally, and another guy I know lurks.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

I guess I'd find easier to talk about ILX if I'd already been an InterWeb mentalist before I came here, so people would know about it. But before ILX I spent very little time on the Web (mostly on school-related stuff), and nowadays I'm online almost every day, and 80-90% of that time I spend here. But I'm slowly beginning to admit my addiction, so I've been telling more and more people about it.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

My partner thinks you're all a bunch of nerds and so am I. She shakes her head in disbelief. And, you know, she's erm right.

― thee music mole, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 10:24 (twenty years ago)

my mates say i'm an incurable geek. but they still love me so it's ok.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

I've tried to explain ILX to my mum. She always refers to it as a chatroom which pisses me off.

― kate/papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 11:12 (twenty years ago)

I keep trying to drag my IRL friends on here. Love me, love my online mentalism, I guess. For some reason, some of them resist. The ones I really like lurk here anyway.

My last bf, I met through ILX, though we were both so ashamed of this that we had to come up with technicalities to tell our friends that meant we didn't meet through it.

x-post... I even got my mum to post to ILX! She thought you lot were weird.

― The Phantom of the Operating System (kate), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

My husband said to me last week about ilx "why do you place so much importance in what those people on ilx say?". I was rather stunned.

― kate/papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

i indirectly got together with my gf through ILX. long story.

― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

long but awesome.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Some know, most don't, and one or two post here.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

She thought you lot were weird.

Wise lady.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Wait, I'm real? I have friends?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

This is a drop in the bucket compared to the mentalism that I exhibit in person for my girlfriend.

― Who did release magic family out from the base of $499 (deangulberry), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

my wife thinks its neat..especially since i got a box of goodies from some people when i was in my car accident. the day i let my wife read any of the shit i posted here is when pigs fly though.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

I'm all cryptic about this ilx shit, like I'm looking up porn or something, or I'm that chubby bloke checking Aisha Tyler's computer records on "24".

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Very little. The stuff they do know doesn't change their opinon of me much, because they already know I'm a dork.

― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

I am very coy and will even pretend that 'I was talking about x with someone AT WORK' rather than admit that the bulk of my meaningful interactions take place on ILE. OTOH a few of my more geeky friends (and Matt) know about it and lurk.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

My best friend accompanied me to some of my early internet friend meet ups (in 97 and 98). I was also possibly going to meet up with one of her interwebmentalist penpals but that never went through.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

'I was talking about x with someone AT WORK'

Haha. I have a lot of stories that start out with "somebody was telling me something one time..."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

especially since i got a box of goodies from some people when i was in my car accident.

Oh good! I completely forgot to check in about that. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

i don't mind. i tell people, "oh, im going to hang out with my internet friends tonite". nobody seems to pay it any attention. and they always ask, how do you know so many people from London? and I say "Sinister and ILX" and they're more confused then

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 10 February 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

dean OTM

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 10 February 2005 04:33 (twenty years ago)

Come on now.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Thursday, 10 February 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

actually i don't tell my friends about exactly where my favourite internerd forums are, as i had one scary stalker-type incident, and also because i like having it separate from my rl mates.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 10 February 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

Everyone i've told reads along but won't post. Weird.

― kate/papa november (papa november), Thursday, 10 February 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

ILx is the place where (a'la Cheers) everybody knows my nom de plume, but nobody at all knows my real name. My non-ILx friends don't know from ILx. My wife knows a bit, but appears uninterested in crashing the party.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 10 February 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

Not a lot of my friends know or care abt ILX, I'll mention it but no one comes here, cept for my b/f who has posted as PlayfulPuppy a few times on some of the gaming/games design conversations as that interests him.

Now LJ on the other hand... my mother found my LJ some time ago and read stuff I said about DRUGS ARGH OMG. I started locking everything after that :/

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 10 February 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

I am very coy and will even pretend that 'I was talking about x with someone AT WORK' rather than admit that the bulk of my meaningful interactions take place on ILE

Haha, I keep saying things like "I was talking with my friends about ... last night", "Someone told me the other day that..." and then realising, er, no, I wasn't. And that saying "one of my friends said..." is by and large a downright lie.

My husband is OK about the fact that I know most of my friends through Sinister, but thinks ILX is a bit stranger in that there is no common link to everyone on it. He is, however, considerably more impressed with ILX now he has realised that there are pictures of people in their pants.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 10 February 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

my girlfriend is intimidated by the internet in general though she has expressed interest in ilx and is amused to hear what i read about on any given day. other friends have checked in but lament the randomness and the pace. i don't really care who knows about it though i do prefer being able to post about anything or anyone without worrying about them reading it. i lurked for a while before i started posting to make sure none of them were here, actually. when i was 16 i met a girlfriend over the internet and i was totally secretive about that for a couple years, then i thought, wtf? why don't i just tell people. who gives a shit? and the only reason anybody thought it was weird is that i lied. though i don't know if i would try to meet a girl through the net anymore. i guess i hadn't tried before either, so i guess i mean that i would maybe try not to.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 10 February 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

mr teeny has met most of the chicago massive but he hasn't ever asked what the actual site I'm always on is. I'm not offering, being terrified that he'll discover I've been calling him 'mr teeny' for years.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 10 February 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

I tell people I go out drinking with you guys and that you entertain me during my unemployement. The last part may not be true.

― Deerninja B4rim4, Plus-Tech Whizz Kid (Barima), Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

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