Do you use your PEA NAME elsewhere online?

oops yes and the first few google pages are all me.

I used my username all over. I’m very unoriginal. It’s even part of my email.

no, my initial pea name was merrick.

i tweaked it when splitting from my ex. i didn't go into many specifics here during that 2 yrs but did confide enough (he knew i was on this board) that i didn't want him to be able to see what i was saying. mainly though, it was a tough time and having to stay in the same house for so long, i became pretty paranoid.

too much credit though, he didn't care what i was saying, he was not observant enough to know what the site was so.... probably not necessary.

and i have not used either versions of this username anywhere else.

ETA: googled and rickmer rickmers is a 1896 sailing ship that is now a tourist destination in hamburg germany. who knew?? 

I had it listed as texascrap and texasscrap elsewhere in a few places and then changed it a few years back. I just googled and all I can find is Texas salvage companies so I think I am good .

I just Googled my username here and see that there are several other people with profiles using that exact same username elsewhere who are definitely not me. I hope no one stalks them IRL thinking they’re me, LOL. This is the only place online (well, this and the original 2Ps) where I have ever used this username, so finding a match in other places could be misleading.

I didn't respond to the poll as I'm really not sure. Not on FB (real name) or YT (odd made up name). But it would be easy to find me because my name is so rare (I'm the only one in the world thanks to a last name that's dying out).

My feeling is, if someone REALLY wants to find me, they will. I'm not bothered.

I clicked on dottyscrapper's link, how can you tell which pea owns that blog?

She was a teacher in Minnesota and pissed someone off so they called her principal and reported her for being on the board during the school day and saying not nice things about parents and students. I thought she revealed too much back then but whoever outed her was the one in the wrong. It made everyone realize what you say on here can be used against you.

 Don’t believe she came to this board when the old one closed down…well as her Mrs Tyler I’d anyway. She may not have given her school name but she did post her full name, state and had her real pic as her avatar.  If you googled that her teacher website and Facebook pages came up. Both of which were wide open back then.

When you Google Katybee and that gorgeous model/singer comes up…. Yeah…..that’s definitely me. Damn. Now y’all know…

The only Peasapie reference I find when I google the name is a race horse. I picked that name specifically for Pea-land. Now that I’m in my 60s, I should probably change it to Peasalot.

Remembering about Mrs Tyler reminds me of the pea who posted a picture of “herself” and then was somehow outed as being fictitious. I don’t recall her name. So many memories here.

In the early days of everyone being on the internet (early 90s for me) it was hard to know how much was ok to share about yourself and what was risky. My first year of being online was education/work related and we were strictly warned to never ever reveal anything that could lead back to you personally, which is a bit ironic since I was basically doing searches using Boolean logic for library patrons and city staff -- nothing remotely personal to me. By the time I had kids and was hitting Momsonline on AOL in 1997-98 ish there were people sharing their birth plans and breastfeeding schedules using thinly disguised names and their real small town locations. There was one very popular poster who lived in Port Angeles and once while on a day trip I ran into her on the street and recognized her. I have a weirdly retentive memory for random stuff, so I had instant recall of some very personal postings, her kids' names, stuff about her husband and MIL. . . That encounter set me up to be somewhat cautious about what I was willing to share online, and I created some rules for self about levels of information sharing. If I wouldn't share it with someone I just met at a party, I wouldn't share it on a forum. If I wouldn't post it on my whiteboard at my workplace, I wouldn't put it on FB. Stuff like that. Over time I've shifted my rules, but I do have a back-of-the-mind framework of what is ok to put out there and what I just won't.

I think I used it at a few no longer in existence boards. I googled and found a couple other accounts but they aren’t me.