I prefer Pop, less to type.
I've changed or shortened many members' nicks over the last few years and others have taken on my ideas. No idea why. My influence here in this forum sometimes baffles even me. You just changed your nick to what others call you (Poppy).
I'm guessing it's a psychological thing. A need to be friendly and make friends. Shortening or changing a nick means that a person instantly LIKES the recipient of the change. If one responds to a post they don't like, normally they will use the full nick.
This can tell a heck of a lot about what people really think...
Anyways, thanks for the little love-letter, Pop 💋
Honestly I think you over-analyze things too much...such as the quote "I think therefore I am"...which is in my personal belief entirely incorrect...the correct phrase would be "I am therefore I am" (no thinking required)...
anyway...I am whoever I am...I didn't change anything...I just am whatever a person decides to call me...excluding condescending remarks/*****...and upon my approval of course! ^_^
Why would anything need to be a psychological thing in order to socialize in a healthy manner in an online environment??? You make it sound more complicated than it needs to be lol... This is simply an exchange of information...information that includes feelings/thoughts...what we are composed of as human beings...A person doesn't "need to be friendly" and/or "make friends"...those sorts of things just happen automatically collectively in our subconscious minds...one of the many wonders of who we truly are as people...
I can say that one may be able to anticipate and/or study a person's patterns but you can never understand let alone comprehend what a person may be feeling at any given moment in time
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