Identity adventures

I just had a phone conversation with a nice Texan girl. She thought I might be a teacher of the same name who helped her put modelling photos on the Internet some time ago. Didn’t catch your name, but good luck.

A dude named Larkeese has been text messaging me for the past week wondering what I’m up to. Tonight I learned that he’s trying to hook up with someone named Danielle. Good luck to you as well.

I recently logged into my alternate email address, brian.beck@gmail.com, to find that some other Brian Beck’s friends and relatives frequently email me. I get party invitations, Google Talk confirmations, and lots of religious chain letters. I’m afraid Brian won’t make it to your party at this rate…

Last summer I received several text messages along these lines:

Hey tyler we got the results back wtg ur gonna be a dad

Hopefully you found out by now, Tyler.

I share a preferred username, exogen, with a polite gamer named Eugene. Eugene thought my old email address was his, so I got some of his email, including registration emails with passwords. After I switched service providers, he claimed the address and later accused me of signing him up for newsletters and spam.

Someone I worked on a project with at Case adopted the same username for gaming after transferring to another school. Imagine that.

Still waiting for the day when I get someone else’s check in the mail…