May I make a suggestion?

Obviously, none of us need to provide the city and state, country, etc. in our profiles and signatures.

But what’s wrong with giving a first name?

This is a small community, and it’s not like someone can steal your identity with a first name only. Most of the long time users who have “cryptic” screen names on here are known by their first names by most of the long time users.

For example, rockstar_not is Scott, curmudgeon is “the other Don”, ryszard is Richard, Silvertones is John, rharv is Bob, (and we have several Bob’s, but it’s all rharv’s fault, ), etc.

So I’m just curious for those who choose to not give their first names on a VERY small forum like this, as to the reasons why. For example, if your name is “Joe”, and you don’t provide the city or state of residence, then are you really in danger of identity theft?

So the simple suggestion is, may we please get on a first name basis? It’s easy to do in the preferences “edit” feature. It adds whatever you input to your signature.

It’s not a big deal, just something I thought I’d bring up. Leave it blank if you wish, or tell us your first name. I just hate typing out a 16 letter cryptic screen name in a response to “Joe” just because I don’t know his/her name is “Joe”. Plus, if people don’t even know your first name, they’re gonna be less likely to take time to type out a response to your question. Or maybe that’s just me!

Oh well, Happy Easter! May the rest of 2011 bring you good things and good music!

(By the way, my name is Bob in case you didn't catch it in the signature or screen name.)

Bob
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