Do you tell your real life friends about ATOT?

[cthulhu]

Who had friends or a real life?

 

[FleshLight]

So ATOT isn't reality?

 

[moshquerade]

that's a big HELL NO. my friends think it is stupid to converse with people who really don't exist on an internet messageboard.

totally FREAKED my gf out when one of these non-existent people called me on the phone.

 

[scorpmatt]

one of my real life friends showed me this site way back when. then awhile later i joined. since then I have shown others the light of Anandtech Forums and its Off Topic section

 

[scorpmatt]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
that's a big HELL NO. my friends think it is stupid to converse with people who really don't exist on an internet messageboard.

totally FREAKED my gf out when one of these non-existent people called me on the phone.

you swing both ways?

 

[skimple]

you have friends?

 

[733SHiFTY]

Originally posted by: PHiuR
I've been on Anandtech since 2000...and recently a couple of my friends have joined and starting neffing like there's no tomorrow.

what to do?

should i just live with it?
bomb their haouses?
pour water in their computers?

actually, it says you joined in 2001, and I'm gonna "nef" all I want.

think of it as a way to stay in touch with me while im at work, buddy, cuz I know you miss me

 

[randumb]

i tell them jokes i see on atot, but don't mention atot itself

 

[Mayfriday0529]

I dont have real life friends. so i guess my answer is no.

 

[jEct2]

no. that's stupid.

 

[LordNoob]

This thread just inspired me to tell a real life friend about ATOT... Oh what have I done...

 

[imported_LoKe]

Nope.

 

[ggnl]

I've only told the people that I think won't make fun of me for it.

 

[ShadowBlade]

i have no real life friends

 

[Nebor]

Oh god no. My real life friends are like brigden, I'd be shunned.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: scorpmatt

Originally posted by: moshquerade
that's a big HELL NO. my friends think it is stupid to converse with people who really don't exist on an internet messageboard.

totally FREAKED my gf out when one of these non-existent people called me on the phone.

you swing both ways?

i call all friends who are girls, - gfs

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

No, I don't. I find it's hard to even convey the concept of a BBS like this to a non-computer-literate person without sounding like a pathetic loser (Is there a reason for that? Hmmmmm . . . ).

 

[SVT Cobra]

depends...but its not something I tell people without getting into it somehow

 

[eplebnista]

Originally posted by: Jnetty99
I dont have real life friends. so i guess my answer is no.

 

[lokiju]

I try not to, only two of my friends even know I go here really and only one of them is a member.

 

[Jawo]

nope...too many computer illiterate friends....................

 

[jds2006]

No. But somehow some guys from school found out that I post here and then IMed me.

 

[Mrvile]

I normally tell my friends some of the interesting stuff posted here and link them to weird stories and videos linked from these forums, but none of them have the intention of joining (it's all techie nerdie to them so w/e)

 

[zimu]

i do. keep telling a few to join, they have as little of alife as i do.

 

[Promethply]

Nay