crazykimbo, I am trying to figure out what you are asking. Are you saying you saw a screen name on the Aging Care website, and also saw the same screen name on another website?
It could be the same person on both sites, or it could be two separate people.
I know if I went to use my screen name on some other website, chances are very high that the name is already being used by someone else. Thus, my screen name could be all over the Internet, but it wouldn't be me. I use my screen name just here on Aging Care as I am now not a member of any other public websites [was many years ago]. The private websites I need to use my ID# or my given name.
If this isn't what you are asking, please correct.
I am not certain that it really matters? This forum is full of wonderful questions and answers for people who are caring for someone/who love someone elderly. Or who are themselves facing down some of these changes. The things you can learn are very helpful. I doubt we will ever meet any of our favorites on this site, so it is of little direct personal importance whether they are "real" or not. For instance someone asked today what the Baker Act is. I don't know the answer, but will be looking it up. Someone gave information about a way one can access Uber and Lyft with a regular phone. As a regular phone that doesn't get apps is all I have, this is information that is of great value to me when I visit my brother in another city with no transit, and am dependent of Uber and Lyft with no way really to reach them. Someone said that another questioner was asking a question for a research paper. That's fine with me. Ask away. So the Forum is what is of value. Look on those who question and answer as little sprites and angels if that works; they are as real as I need them to be. But, again, an interesting question.
As everywhere on the internet: if in doubt, leave it alone.
There is no way to know that what you read online is "real." For all you know, I could be an automated garden gnome hacking into my owner's laptop. I'm not - but you don't know that!
It could be the same person on both sites, or it could be two separate people.
I know if I went to use my screen name on some other website, chances are very high that the name is already being used by someone else. Thus, my screen name could be all over the Internet, but it wouldn't be me. I use my screen name just here on Aging Care as I am now not a member of any other public websites [was many years ago]. The private websites I need to use my ID# or my given name.
If this isn't what you are asking, please correct.
I am a real person. I use BarbBrooklyn as my screen name on other websites. I imagine others do as well.
There is no way to know that what you read online is "real." For all you know, I could be an automated garden gnome hacking into my owner's laptop. I'm not - but you don't know that!