Baloo wrote something about the choice of username, which is very true. If you want people to be friendly almost instantly and have a higher rate of people to add you, you use a candy name such as Bambi, Pooh, Baloo, etc.
People love candy and no matter the taste, people seem to stick with it. It is so extreme, that if you can paint a dog shit in gold and remove the smell with perfume, people would be attracted to it. It never occur to them that a dogshit remain a dogshit, not matter the presentation.
If the person behind the name seems to be no good, then it is usually translated by people as [going through a tough time in life, because with that name nobody could be all bad].
Self-delusion is HOT and works as an escape from a dysfunctional human society, which is pretty much the entire world. Humans hide away in all sorts of activities like drugs, games, TV shows, movies, coding, extreme sports, religions or supernatural activities, Social Media, painting, coffeeshop gossip, etc. Some call it [mental suicide] for those who are too chicken to jump the rope.
And honestly - there is not much attraction about living in the human world. The illusion and delusion is much more attractive. But this is also a source of money. If you can provide a tool which cause people to sink in to a delusion, they are willing to pay almost anything to stay there.
Is it ethical? Only if we choose to make it so. Ethics and morals are subjective. What is good for one, is suffering for another, which renders ethics and morals obsolete. By default humans are primitives that still live in the delusion of thinking they are intelligent. Delusions of Grandeur. The human species as a whole, behaves like paranoid schizophrenics. And from that we believe that we are mentally balanced enough to build societies with standards applied to all humans. The Western world is build upon the genocidal blood, but try to sweep it under the carpet and forget about it; only to turn and point fingers at others doing the same.
Feed the delusion with candy and you become a pimp. Lots of money in pimping peoples delusions.
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I need to clarify a little more about this. I was talking about the admin of the site. Already it becomes rare that it is easily accessible, even more rare, online.
Anecdote about it. My son who sees how I practice for years, asked me one day: "Hey dad, I'm not happy, it's very slow on Facebook, how should I do to join the admin? :-) He had made me laugh.
So I chose the option to be accessible from the beginning. But, up to 1000 members I had a personal profile with my photo, I was a man like another member. I quickly understood something. The human being accepts a remark from another man badly, even if he does it nicely.
For example, tell a member: "hey please, a little courtesy on the forums, no need to get upset." is misinterpreted.
So I created this character, smiling, and neutral. It is quite amazing, but with him, I can say everything and it often goes with a smile.
So, I did not do this at all to deceive people, but just it helps to relieve tensions when there is, it's much easier.
Even more surprising, people often attach this video to a message for me. "It takes little to be happy".
Amazing is not it? I do not think it is immoral :-) Also it reminds a beautiful time when things were very different, it is probably another explanation.
Hahaha. Its exactly what I was talking about. People love candy, and with Baloo, you took a candy-name or candy-profile. We do it to achieve something. It is a deception, but in order to achieve what is needed, the deception is justified. In the social arena, there are many strategies. If you go to a bar, with the purpose of picking up a girl, then you choose a username, depending on what you think the girl wants(or is hungry for). This concept is described in many ways. I like to refer to it as clothing of different brands we wear. some wear [Buddhism] to look as if they are [good people] even though they have no idea what either [good] or [Buddhism] really is. But just wearing the brands gives an edge in social life. The more popular brands you wear, the more social popularity points you get. People are hungry for those points. Disney names do give good points. My username [pethol] is just my two names put together [PETer HOLmgren]. It has no meaning and no immediate associations. So I have to work harder for my social points, than someone named [Bambi] or [Baloo] or [Cinderella]...
Its the same when we choose a domain name. It has to have the desired effect to draw the hungry people.
Social Relations - Where deception wears the mask of morality.