• There is a comedian, Tom Green, who every now and then muses about the fact I have the Twitter handle @TomGreen while his is @tomgreenlive and he “wonders” why I won’t give it to him. 
• This morning, on the Opie and Anthony show, he raised it again and sort of told people to ask me for it because I would get mad. 
• At about 10:00 am, noticing a ton of mentions on Twitter, I was aghast to discover that I was being bullied by people demanding I give up my Twitter handle. 
• A couple of minutes later someone posted my phone number and extension at the College where I work and someone else mentioned Opie and Anthony had tried to reach me at that number.

It saddens me to see things like this happen, and I’ve seen it all too often when people new to the Internet don’t understand that on the other side of the screen is a real person.  

Hopefully this is a mistake only made once, especially as more people join the Internet and naming collisions become more common.