renaissance poisson

See, I think of piranha as not really pseudo kind of name - you have continuity with that name from USENET and the same userpic as on LJ and I feel like I know who you are. From my point of view, I don't think the issue is as much with the "fake name" as it is with (a) the identity-hijacking, which I think is disrespectful to the real famous person kind of like writing slash about real people, and (b) people "adding" on Facebook without identifying themselves to you.

I got a Facebook add request the other day. I didn't recognize the name or little picture, and the person had his/her own friends' list hidden, so I couldn't figure out whether there was a connection. So I wrote and said I didn't recognize zir name, where did zie know me from. Zie wrote back, repeating the name that hadn't meant anything to me, with what sounded like an offended tone. "I was your brother's first friend at university! I have been to your parents' place many times! I was at your brother's wedding! I was trying to find him on Facebook."

So I asked whether zie had my brother's work e-mail address. Zie said zie did, but "I just thought it would be fun if he was on here!" None of that made me want to add this person to my friends' list, so I didn't.