...in most memes; some very serious). I'm even comfortable meeting in RL people I know online, because they're old friends. I have many people I consider really good friends now on LJ, and only a few people I'm really close to in RL. You'd never know me if you met me anonymously in RL; and the people who know me in RL would never recognize me online. (I missed this until kerryblaze posted it.)

The only other person there that I know I know was kerryblaze . But there might have been others—everyone was introduced by first name instead of LJ screen name, so who knows? I feel bad in these situations because my real name is not general knowledge—I have a filter for the people who know it—and I’m uncomfortable in lying to people about it, so I have to say, “The name I use online is John...