Disguising yourself online

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Is it a sin?
To create an email with different name and info in order to be anonymous?
Bonus : is an intel agency member diguising him/herself is doing a sinful job? Or say an undercover cop taking the guise to infiltrate a crime syndicate…
 
Dear baguette, and I assume you’re un buttered.
No these are not sins imo, be innocent as doves and wise as serpents when you’re among wolves.
 
Yea I kinda think it isnt after reading about the early English Jesuit saints.
 
I only use my real name on Facebook (my real picture too) and on one other site that is also a support group.

For the rest… bring on the usernames whoohoo!
 
And here I was thinking Baguette was your real name…

For me, the only place I use my real name is in cases where it’s people I’d talk to in real life. So I use my real name in a chat for people in my major at my college, a chat with people at my Newman Center, and whatnot. I also tend to use my main email for things like online orders. But for online forums/games I usually use a secondary email of mine with a pseudonym and as you could probably tell, mVitus isn’t my real name.
 
This reminds me of Brad Paisley’s country hit “Online” (as in, “So much cooler online”). Those who want can check out the video on YouTube; it’s one of the best music video ever made, IMNSHO.

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I was raised to never put my identifying information online (back when my Internet came to my home via the telephone and I had to barter time for the Internet with my parents waiting for a phone call in the evening) so even to this day I rarely put my real name, address, age, etc. online. I’ve had to change those security precautions because doctor’s offices and other businesses have no consideration for my wants and personal security and instead require me to put my information where people have free range to just grab it, but if I have the option I always make stuff up.
 
There is safely to be had, and unfortunately required, for privacy and safety. I think the sin comes when you use that against people to denigrate them. It’s possible I’ve done that, hopefully only in response, but the bigger person wouldn’t react differently at all. Either way admission of sin is the beginning of forgiveness.
 
I’m not getting paid for an endorsement, but…Dr. Ray Guarendi’s book Thinking Like Jesus talks about this, but in a slightly different way.

Obviously using fake names not only online but like in business for the sake of deceiving others is morally wrong. But, Guarendi talks about people acting different in different environments. I not only participate in this forum anonymously, but I’m not the holy joe that as sometimes I may seem to be. Like everybody else. I’m a complex person.

The same sort of problem occurs in the Church and it’s very obvious. Several of the recent popes have been canonized, but clerical sexual abuse was raging while they were popes. Maybe also even under the present pope, as has been alleged.

Privacy and security are one thing, hypocrisy is something different, and scripture warns us against that.

Guarendi says Christians sometimes act other than they feel, and he calls that charity. Even though it may be forced, that doesn’t mean it’s not genuine. (this is literally just what I was reading before I went online)
 
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I’d imagine it depends on the reason behind it. I think and I dont have that sort of brain that can put it in technical terms, but I remember reading that there are some things that can be sins if the motive behind them is sinful and somethings that are sins anyway. I forget the term. I am just saying this would be the former. I think like hunger, it’s a good thing it keeps us alive, but it can lead to gluttony if the motive behind it is greed and self satisfaction. I would think that if we hide our identity for self preservation then that is commendable but if it is to commit sins or lead others into sin then well it is indeed sinful. Likewise with the police or security services, if they aim to help save people and stop crime and prevent abuse then their actions are commendable but if they use or abuse their power then they would slip into sinful behaviour.
 
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Oh, so “0Scarlett_nidiyilii” isn’t you’re real name?
 
semper_catholicus said:
Oh, so “0Scarlett_nidiyilii” isn’t you’re real name?
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Semper_catholicus Adam Jones, I told you to clean this room! 😜
Cecilia_Dympna said:
I’m always in disguise when online. I’m wearing a false mustache and wig right now.
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twf said:
I have a long history with the Vitus family.
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On a totally unrelated note, my uncle wishes to meet you in the old abandoned warehouse on the South Side for a meeting.
otrrl said:
I’m not getting paid for an endorsement, but…Dr. Ray Guarendi’s book Thinking Like Jesus talks about this, but in a slightly different way.
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From your summary it seems he’s arguing more that a person should be cautious to make sure the motives behind the pseudonym are good. That they don’t take it as license to be jerk. Right?
 
Eh, if somebody wants to come looking for me, I’m not that hard to find.
 
RoseScented said:
I was raised to never put my identifying information online
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*snerk*

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I was past the age of raising when the internet came around . . .

In the early days, pre-“internet”, our actual names and employers were there, but our logo name on the local system/network would be most visible.

t’s also where I started signing as . . .

hawk
 
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RoseScented:
I was raised to never put my identifying information online
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*snerk*

🤯

I was past the age of raising when the internet came around . . .

In the early days, pre-“internet”, our actual names and employers were there, but our logo name on the local system/network would be most visible.

t’s also where I started signing as . . .

hawk
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I remember the time before the Internet came into my home (still a child though) but my younger sibling doesn’t. I also remember typing to load up Windows and my sibling doesn’t either. It’s so weird to have that gap even among siblings. Tech advances so fast. I’m currently getting interns in at my workplace that were super confused when the rest of us talked about having a second phone line in the home or arranging/bargaining for time to be on the Internet when someone was waiting for a phone call. Then again they also asked why people faxed things to each other (they found the process tedious) when they could just e-mail it instead.
 
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I’m also one of the handful that has never owned a windows machine.

8 bit machines (even built my own), an original Mac, learned Unix on an actual PDP-11, but never windows. But I’ve used a few in various offices (and it always reminds me why I don’t have one!).

There is very definitely a generation gap between me and my sister born 8 years later, and especially, let alone the brother 12 years younger . . .

hawk
 
The first computer I played with is in a museum now. it was one of 5 and took up an entire room. No internet then, or even intranet. No VHS, Beta, mobile phones.
My son learnt to use a beta video record tape playback when he was 2. Technology had advanced that much in less then 5 years.
We got colour tv when he was around 2yo.

In those days…Back when dinos roamed the earth and the thylacine was alive.

Internet was slow to take off as a popular communication for personal use as social media, but once it did…

I still remember a class mate in Uni who became addicted to yahoo chat , couldn’t work out why it was cutting into her study time and keeping her up till the small hours of the morning.
What we know now about social media addiction validated all her issues.
 
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I began using the Internet in 2012…which feels ages ago to me 🙂 I was too busy with life to feel I’d missed out at all.
 
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