extremely uncomfy when ppl i do not know address me by my name on here in some weird effort to sound familiar or something
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i think some cultures explicitly teach saying someone's name in conversation is a way to get them to warm up to you and let you be closer to them, but yeah def has the opposite effect on some ppl (in my case mostly because ppl suck at pronouncing my name, i'd rather be "you")
yeah i’ve been trying to figure out for a long time the exact shape of when it feels normal for me to use names and when not, like intros/calling to people/some casual friend usage is all fine but sometimes names feel v intimate
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wonder if it’s a cultural artifact ie the way chinese and lots of asian languages prefer usage of nicknames and titles for people
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yeah i think that's why it's mostly unnatural for asians to use names: in indian culture calling anyone older than you by name is super-rude, and anyone younger its super-authoritarian, like teacher-student, so real names are mostly just for official shit
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