. . . I wanna be like you-oo-ooo! 
Have you ever noticed that your online character/personality occasionally attracts people who think this is who you really are and then they make a massive effort to become your ‘friend’ when in fact they are actually wishing they could be like you? Except of course they have no idea who you are.
These people are kinda scary . . . because if you don’t respond in kind you go from being perched on a pedestal you never wanted to be on anyhow to being whatever sort of monster can be fabricated, usually something they are most afraid of that has nothing whatsoever to do with you, in order to justify whatever nastiness they come up with to knock you off said pedestal.
Ah, public life, eh? Next I’ll be shaving my head . . .
casa azahar 
unwanted attention, eh?
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Just sometimes. Not a huge deal here, but it used to happen on h2g2 quite a lot.
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Another advantage to no displaying my personality (as far as I’m aware)then!
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Ah, you can’t fool me you big hunk o’ dude! 😉
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lol
More seriously – going back to your “why do you blog?” post ages ago – it is that sort of thing that contributes heavily to why I don’t.
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I think I would have been more hesitant to start a blog if I hadn’t already been involved with a forum like h2g2 for about four years … so I had a pretty good idea of what having a blog would be like. Kinda like h2g2 but with a lot more freedom.
And as I say, I had way more problems with weirdos over there, especially as I didn’t have the power to delete their comments unless the BBC deigned these to be offensive in their eyes.
But it came to me that maybe I’m not the only person who has had a few suchlike problemitas and that it might be interesting to let them know they aren’t alone.
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I guess I haven’t become “popular” or well known enough to have had a problem with this, at least not so far. But it is nice to be forewarned.
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I don’t think it’s a ‘popularity thing’ per se, perhaps more just getting noticed for some reason or other.
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Apparently, everyone has left h2g2 and come here…
I am clearly behind the times…
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Jez
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I haven’t had a problem like that yet either. Perhaps I make up for it by ALWAYS attracting weirdos on buses and in shops.
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*waves to Jez*
Hope to see you here more often!
I don’t have that problem on buses and in shops – apparently one warning flash of The Ray is enough to keep all weirdos at bay.
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I rely on the Baltic Death Stare to deter weirdos. It’s one of the most useful things I inherited from my grandmother.
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