When I met up with TFP, I used a different nick from other forums for two reasons-a) should anyone from the other forums actually be in here(I saw familiar nicks, but since have found they're just coincidences), I'd be anonymous and b) only one other person, a friend IRL, would know it was me. So for over two years, I've been called either NG or Dawg and I respond to it.
When I joined PGR, knowing there'd be many times I'd be with other members, I used my previous online name, which is from my real name and now, when they call me that, I hesitate to answer.
Real name: Louise (eh), my friends know me as Lou or Louann(what my paternal grandmother preferred) I would be shocked if there was one other Louise here-I was the only one throughout school, including the 3 first grades I attended in PA and NJ