Is 3GirlKnight a good online username for a guy?
I've gotten compliments for it, but only after I explain what it means. Explaining is a pain if it's necessary.
Here's the story: I got pretty bored the other night and started hunting for online chat rooms. There are quite a few, but most are Flash/Java based, i.e. useless on the iPad. Others are available, but they're....oh, how shall we say... absolutely horrific. Have you ever heard of Tinychat? They actually have an iPad app, but that crap should be banned. It's a bunch of teenagers in a chat room with a whole bunch of 'spectators'. Spectators meaning, 'horny old guys'. Heck if my kids are gonna be on that.
I also found Anybodyoutthere.com. It seems to be what I was looking for. A non-dating, text based chat room, even though it handles more like a forum with transitions into 1 on 1 chats. That's where the question about the username came into play. I got chatted up by a couple of girls who assumed I was another girl. I also got requests from guys to start chats. After starting one of those and explaining the situation, he promptly dropped out and I didn't accept any more. This was all within an hour or so.
So maybe it's just my insecurities but I'm considering changing my online moniker. Not everywhere, which would be a pain in the ass, but in certain places like chat rooms and online dating (if I ever do that.) I can imagine it ending up like one of those old sitcoms where the guy tries to date 2 girls at once without them knowing and starts getting their facts and names mixed up before it all blows up in his face.
Does anyone have any suggestions? If we can't think of a good one, it might have to be a random one, which would be easy to explain, but not as fun. Maybe something similar to 3GirlKnight, just without the 'Girl'. And no, I'm not doing '3GirlieGuy'.
Maybe a play on my real name: Kenster. Kenorama. VeltCamper (a gaming reference or outdoors reference. Both of which I enjoy.) I've been called Veltcrap before. Maybe that would work? CamperKen. No Barbie references please.
Having a tag that can be drawn up in a logo would be cool. Makes it hard to use a name then though.
I'm leaning towards 3GKnight now. What do you think?
Have you ever Googled your own name? If you're anything like me, it's all out there. It seems there's a fairly decent break between my real name and my online tag. Can't find any references from one to the other, which is good.
Anyhoo... I'm done blathering. Now it's your turn. Blather away please.
How about just "The Knight"? Sounds mas macho, and would put some females in mind of, perhaps, Lancelot or Galahad.
ReplyDelete(I suggest that with the disclaimer that I think your moniker is just fine as is. However, I can understand what you're saying about having to explain.)
Oh dear... I am terrible at choosing names myself. I generally use things that other people have tagged me with for whatever their reasons are. I like your 3GirlKnight!
ReplyDeleteOn-line dating was fun and yes, there were some mix-ups on the way. Once the man started out with "Hello Jo, what do you know?" and I sent back...
"Sorry baby, I'm not Jo, better forward that to her. LOL" I still married him. =:]
I knew that mix-ups would happen, like death and taxes, so I was okay when they did or I did them. But I was also very open with the fact that I was talking to other men at that same time. Who talks to just one person? And it doesn't hurt for them to know that there are others who are interested. To the man's credit, he was honest about that too... and that was part of what made him a keeper. I also kept my conversations with men in files with their names on them, so I could check back and not make mistakes about who said what.
If you want to keep the dad thing going, how about 3girldad or knightdad
ReplyDeleteIn some cases, it isn't necessarily a bad thing to be gender unclear. But for chats / dating...yeah, I get it.
ReplyDeleteI think 3GKnight is cool. It kinda sounds like you come from a long line of gallant guys :)
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I think 3GKnight is great. Just the Knight would be too much I think.
But then you might be outdone by 4GKnight... :-)
3GKnight would work - ambiguous without being creepy. I think Kenster and Kenorama sound a bit smarmy. I once saw a guy's profile on a dating site where he used the screen name TrisexualAnimal. Yikes!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comments everyone. I've decided to go with 3GKnight. One of my gaming buddies is kind enough to be working on a logo for it. His initial concept is awesome and it'll be sure to grace this blog when it's done.
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