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[jay-ell]

a consistent brand message

This is what I'm struggling with now.  I'm trying to associate my Real Name (TM) with things that will make me look good to potential publishers. 

One of the reasons I changed my display name here last year.  Too much ranting, too much meandering prattle about my kids. 

[lprkn]

Never!

[wombat]

I never thought of this before, but my entire life has been the opposite of a consistent brand message.

[miles]

Jesus. Branding. I'm so fuck*ng sick of hearing my manager tell us what we should be doing to build our individual brands.

[Doc]

Just to be clear I was saying branding in a heavily ironic way. I have no (financial at least) reason to want to look good on the net. It was more a case of previously I had a bunch of different identities on different boards and IMs that had arisen over time but when I started using facebook (of course) they started to overlap so I felt I should start being consistent to save confusion.
I still have a few rogue identities out there for when the heat comes down though.

[Choop]

i'm still holding out against social networking sites. i don't digg or reddit, i don't tweet, i don't facebook or myspace. i lurk metafilter, but that's more for the links than the comments.

part of the reason i don't is that i like to have a distinct, unique brand identity personage at whatever few separate internet sites i contribute to. i can't say that without ending in a preposition. social networking sites like facebook don't let you have multiple accounts. hell, i have five gmail addresses and people that know one don't know another.

look i might be choop everywhere but everywhere i'm choop i'm a different choop, and why shouldn't i be? this is the internet. if people found out i'm a dog i'd be disappointed and frightened.

[theinevitable]

i like the internet the way it has become.

but obviously you guys know that I don't have a problem sharing personal information with strangers. oops. my propensity to repeat everything i hear or think is getting me into trouble lately.

[Choop]

the internet? yeah i liked its old stuff before it sold out

[wombat]

i social networking sites like facebook don't let you have multiple accounts.

They don't? How would they know? One of my friends has one for herself and for each of her dogs.

[AugustWest]

They don't? How would they know? One of my friends has one for herself and for each of her dogs.

Isn't it obvious?  SHE only has one.  The dogs only have one each.  If she tried to get two for the dogs, then there'd be trouble.

[Choop]

neither of my dogs can even type, so color me impressed

[Doc]

On the internet, everyone knows you're a dog.

[littlefallsmets]

You had sex with a girl on the strength of your similar haircuts?

I mean, maybe that and weird drunken syntax issues?

That's pretty strong pimp hand. Or pimp hair, anyway.

[KeithHernandez]

Maybe it is the hair?  Not drunk now.  Didn't really do anything just kind of went along with her you know.  I have no pimp hand, is what I am saying.  Just don't fuck it up when it is obvious.

Also, our hair isn't even that similar, pretty close, but not that close.  She really dug on that, I guess.


Edit: deleted drunk post about girl who was in to me because of our hair above lfms post

[miles]

Man. While maybe not the equivalent of a line of coke, two large coffees, a bottle of Gatorade, and half a bag of Combos will get you home safely. Getting pulled over will also give you enough adrenaline to appear as sober as a Turk. A 25 minute walk in a light snow while it's 30°F doesn't hurt, either.

Edit: OK, I wasn't drunk when I drove home. Well, I would have passed a breathalyzer. I may have failed a field sobriety, but that's another issue entirely. I just wanted to clear that up before being taken to task by any MADD or SADD members on the board. Most of the drinking was done after the driving.