Double Life

Started by Aizuke March 23rd, 2009 4:13 AM
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Aizuke

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Age 33
Male
Canberra, Australia
Seen November 6th, 2015
Posted November 6th, 2015
3,025 posts
15.3 Years
Do your parents know of your online life?

My parents know some parts of my online life, but not much. They just know I usually go on the internet to chat with people. But they don't know about who I chat with, since they just think I chat with my in real life friends or my cousins. They don't know that I chat with people who live across the world from me or that I go on PC or even that I tell others about how my real life is.

The internet is pretty much a place to chat and watch videos, according to what my parents believe. And it's also a place to play video games, which is what they think I do most of the time and the reason why I spend majority of the time on the computer. My parents aren't really in tune with technology, so they don't check up on what I do online, more along the lines of they can't check what I do online. As a matter of fact, they don't go anywhere near my computer. But it's not like I have much to hide from them, though there are a few details I'd rather not let them know about.
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Age 34
Female
Karnac (in RL, The UK)
Seen March 14th, 2010
Posted February 8th, 2010
761 posts
14.7 Years
I'm pretty honest with my family about what I do online; otherwise I feel guilty about not telling them what I'm doing. Since I've been married, my husband (who isn't particularly technologically minded) shows a real interest in what I do online, asking about particular friends, and I've even taught him how to play pokémon on my DS.




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Seen February 28th, 2019
Posted August 9th, 2011
524 posts
15.9 Years
My mom doesn't know much about my "online life". She knows that I chat a lot on MSN and that I visit a certain site regularly (at least I think she knows this xD) but that's about it. She doesn't know anything about my online friends and what we talk about.
I never tell her anything and she has never asked me anything either so yea... I guess she really trusts me in what I'm doing online.
I don't have secrets which I hide or anything but as long as she doesn't ask I won't tell her anything.

X-626

Age 33
Male
Seen July 17th, 2012
Posted July 7th, 2012
1,325 posts
14.3 Years
Yeah, both my parents know about it. My mom has pretty much always let me join whatever I wanted and chat with whoever (though, she does bug me about being careful). They know that I talk to people from around the world. There's a lot I don't tell them, but not because I don't want them to know (for the most part, anyway). There's just never a reason to mention it.

Margot

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Seen April 16th, 2022
Posted February 25th, 2019
3,662 posts
17.3 Years
I figure if there's ever a hope of me meeting these people, my parents need to know how much my online friends mean to me and how long I've known them. Honestly, my parents know my best online friends by name and they know how much info they know about me, etc. They're supportive of me meeting people from different areas and they think it's great I have friends online, but they still remind me to be careful. Which is fine, they're just being parents :)

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Age 30
Female
Canada
Seen July 24th, 2012
Posted August 24th, 2011
1,474 posts
14.9 Years
Not about PC, no. My mom knows I go on msn, but she'd probably be worried if I told her about PC, cause she'd think people are pedophiles haha.

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Seen November 26th, 2021
Posted April 1st, 2011
287 posts
14.9 Years
I figure if there's ever a hope of me meeting these people, my parents need to know how much my online friends mean to me and how long I've known them. Honestly, my parents know my best online friends by name and they know how much info they know about me, etc. They're supportive of me meeting people from different areas and they think it's great I have friends online, but they still remind me to be careful. Which is fine, they're just being parents :)
You're so lucky!lol

My mom knows i go onto myspace to chat to folks from school and things but my mom would have a fit if she knew i've been talking to people i've never met before in real life.
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Klippy

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Age 31
Male
Disneyland
Seen December 4th, 2022
Posted February 19th, 2022
16,371 posts
17.4 Years
My parents know I know people online and talk to them. They don't know a whole lot, besides that. They don't know how I met any of them or what goes on when we talk, but they know that I know people online and that's all the need to know. XD

Corvus of the Black Night

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Age 30
Non-binary
With the Birds
Seen January 9th, 2015
Posted January 9th, 2015
3,416 posts
14.3 Years
They have absolutely no clue. I'm not even supposed to be online, but it doesn't actually mean anything to me because I already know their password to their admin account XD

Amaruuk

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Age 34
She/Her
Seen 2 Weeks Ago
Posted February 3rd, 2023
1,301 posts
15 Years
I choose not to share my online life (or my personal life in general) with my family. I know exactly how they'd react to things, and my mom especially doesn't understand anything I've tried to tell her. Heck, I was on Facebook for a time most of last year and a bit of the year before (I was already moved out for a while when I joined), and I made the mistake of telling mom. She flipped like I was some 12-year-old wandering into a predator's lair, talking about how she heard something on the news about Facebook and some drunk people harassing each other or somesuch. Try as I might, I couldn't convince her that A) I'm an adult and can watch out for myself and B) Facebook and anything else on the internet for that matter isn't all just the bad stuff she reads/hears about. She's like that about everything, not just the internet, and it makes it very difficult to talk to her at all. There's a point where it's not just about looking after your child's safety/well-being but rather something that's wrong with your head.

I used to be very open about my personal/online life, but over the years, my family has proven to me that it's beneficial for us all if I just keep it to myself. They at least know that I'm a mature and responsible person, and trust that I'm not doing anything bad, and I trust them not to pry into my business.




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Age 27
Male
Seen February 13th, 2019
Posted October 4th, 2015
5,175 posts
17.3 Years
Nah, they know nothing. They once found out I go to PC but forgot I even chat online. I even asked my dad to donate to PC once and he didn't remember when he saw it and how "fun" it was. I think he's just being mean and extremely forgetful.

But they generally know nothing. And I don't think they even suspect anything since I'm not social in real life, they think I just go online to play some games.

Sammi

Age 33
she/her
The States
Seen 5 Days Ago
Posted November 8th, 2021
14,085 posts
18.3 Years
I'm not sure about my stepdad, but my mom both has a LJ and Twitter, and I have her added on. So, she can figure out what I do depending on what I post. She even somewhat remembers that I work here on PC, because she was bugging me about putting that on my resume. I was like "who's going to care??" And sometimes I'll mention what I do online to my brothers, but that's pretty rare.

I don't talk to my family about everything, because I don't feel a need, but I don't have anything to hide. I don't really do much.

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Sloofish

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Age 19
Planet Earth
Seen September 10th, 2010
Posted September 9th, 2010
125 posts
14.2 Years

I am two entirely different people from reality to the computer.

They think I'm a quiet little kid. That never does anything wrong, that no one could ever hate. They think I've never had any problems in my life, that it's just fantastic. They still think I draw like I did eight and a half years ago the last time I showed them one of the pictures I painted. They have no idea...

I have a different name, a different age, different friends, a fiance, an entirely different personality, and so much more they don't know about as well as many problems they never knew people could even GET and I'm hoping it'll remain that way.


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Aurafire

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Age 32
Male
New York
Seen April 25th, 2017
Posted November 8th, 2011
5,735 posts
15 Years
My parents have no clue that I go on PC so much. They don't even know it exists. They just think I'm chatting with friends, which is true to some extent. I think we'll keep it that way...I don't think they'd be too pleased if they found out ;D

Jorah

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Age 32
Female
UK
Seen August 18th, 2021
Posted September 24th, 2016
4,214 posts
17.1 Years
They know I talk to people online, but not very much about it. I don't talk to them about it at all because they hate the idea of me talking to people I don't know and are quite sure that, by making this very post, someone is going to pin-point my location and either bomb the house or or abduct me. So yeah, I don't really like to tell them anything. They pretty much hate the idea of using the computer for anything but homework

Melody

Banned

Female
Cuddling those close to me
Seen March 4th, 2018
Posted March 2nd, 2018
6,459 posts
18.6 Years
My family knows precious little about what I do online, the most I talk to them about it about is the occasional super hilarious n00b who stumbles in from time to time, no matter where I'm at, utters at least 3-20 lines in n00bese and then stumbles out angrily because no one replies right away. XD

But, I can empathize. Your life online should be private. Parents have no need to pry into it for any reason, especially if they dont know about it. Yes, online there is a lot more 'dirty' talk than one might see in real life, but that doesn't make it bad. Besides, kids are going to learn about something no matter how much you shield them from it. In fact the more you shield the kid from something, the more curious they get. Mark my words, there is no stopping them from finding out.

Conservative parents are especially A pain in the neck. Because the conservative media likes to scapegoat the internet (it's the new media form, remember what they did to video games at first?) parents are grossly misinformed about what goes on online.

Granted, there ARE cases of creepy people who lurk around, but usually the law catches up to them before they do serious damage. Personally, I avoid certain social networking sites like myspace and facebook because of two reasons, one reason is that there are some really weird people there, and two because belive it or not, some companies do an online search of your name, and they'll sniff out things like your myspace page or your facebook page.

Signomi

Age 32
Female
Britland (United Kingdom)
Seen 1 Week Ago
Posted October 10th, 2022
7,480 posts
17.8 Years
I often have both my parents and my friends peeking over my shoulder from time to time as I browse PC, so I'm quite sure they know I frequent a place where Pokémon dominates...which amuses my parents from time to time since I was quite childish with my obsession when I was younger. I have a few friends who were interested in registering a couple of times but they eventually forgotten about it, guess they don't seem to care...not that I care too much either, I'd rather keep PC to myself. XD

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