Re: follow up on using a false identity

There have been a number of good points about this.  I don't think that 
this is something that I would do myself, but I know that lots of people, 
especially those in the public eye (or ear) do it all the time.  It is 
_very_ common for radio personalities to do this, and I have seen an 
increasing number of places on the web where this is common -- even 
including resumes.  People don't always want other people to know who they 
really are, and that isn't necessarily a bad thing, or a sneaky thing.

Someone else pointed out that if the family in the picture ever found out 
what was going on, there might be legal recourse.  Personally, I would be 
surprised if the people in the picture were even related.  They are often 
just people that look good together, and look like they could be a family.

Just more food for thought (and discussion).

-JEV

At 02:16 PM 5/20/00 -0400, Thomas Carreno wrote:
>I am basically left with the impression now that this would not be a good
>idea at all. However for the sake of argument here are a couple of points.
>Don't actors and tv shows and certain products on the market use false
>identities to portray themselves? Actors and Actresses pretend to be any
>number of types of people and we actually believe that this is what they
>are. Actors also are on TV commercials and the people they pretend to be 
>on
>their regular acting jobs (such as a father figure) are then used on the 
>TV
>commercial to portray the idea that the product is ideal because it is 
>being
>promoted by this 'fake' ideal father from the TV show.

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