What are your thoughts on people who call you by a nickname even though you just met them?

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3. Depends on the nickname and who’s using it. If Amos Burton (The Expanse) met me and gave me a nickname, I’d consider it a very high honor.

4. Doesn’t bother me unless I hate the nickname. I have terrible memory for names and I know some other people use nicknames to deal with their trouble with remembering names.

5. Sup knob ed, you a friend of Dave’s?

6. That depends entirely on the nickname itself and the context of the encounter.

7. It’s rude. If I introduce myself as Camdoza there’s no reason for them to be calling me Cam or Cammie.

8. Depends on context. If I’ve not been introduced with a nickname and I didn’t tell them a nickname to call me, then they should call me the name that I have been introduced to them by. If I want to offer them a different name to use, then I can do so.

9. I don’t care what people call me at any point so long as A) I know what it is they’re calling me and B) it’s not blantantly meant as an insult.

10. I love nicknames

11. I find it really endearing. The first time my coworkers did it casually and spontaneously, I had a nice little rush of “awww!” feeling.

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13. My name is often abbreviated to a nickname which I absolutely cannot stand, so it does happen a lot where people just assume that’s what I go by. I try not to be annoyed when it first happens, and 99% of the time people get it right after I tell them that I go by my full name. I do get irritated when people keep it up even after being corrected, though.

14. I can’t stand it. Especially nicknames like “sweetheart” and “sweet cheeks” really rubs me the wrong way.

15. Not cute. It’s assuming a degree of closeness that isn’t there.

16. Hate it. Feels overly familiar

17. Don’t mind at all as long as it is not offensive or mean. People often forget my name so I am use to just answering any name when they’re obviously trying to engage with me.

18. I prefer it. The only person that calls me by my government name is my younger brother. Even my co-workers and boss call my by my nickname.

19. I don’t blink an eye about it. Practically everyone eventually ends up making up their own version of my name sooner or later. I just have a name that lends itself to that pretty naturally. I think it’s cute that ppl just make it up on their own.

20. It’s kind of weird if I don’t introduce myself as such. Not like I’ll judge them but it just feels a little weird because only my close friends call me by a nickname.

21. Doesn’t bother me