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How to handle strangers?

I've recently gotten into DnD far more than anyone else in my family and friends, and I want to play it. I found this sight, but obviously a lot of the matching up here is with strangers, and I'm not quite sure how well it turns out most of the time. I don't really want to introduce myself to strangers or let them know who I am, so does anyone here have advice for this issue?
I have played in a few campaigns on Roll20 and so far aside from race and class of your chracter people haven't asked me too many questions. Aside from your name and D&D related issues people are really cool. Maybe after you have played with a group for a while they might ask you more than your name and such.
does make a lot of sense. I've done forum RPing for years, so that's been really removed from the other people mostly, but again did evolve that way. I guess the best way to do this is to get in there after all.
Yup, jump in both feet.
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very rarely will anyone ask for any personal info and you can always tell them that you are not comfortable with giving out that info if they ask. Most people take you at face value. You can also change your display name if you don't wish to give out your real name. Just go into your account (top right corner- drop down menu) and change your display name. Welcome to the community and feel free to post any questions. Embrace the community and you won't be wrong.
Remember: Most people here are strangers to one another, or were before they came to play together, so you are by no means the "odd man out" that just joined a tightknit group of friends, as it's often the case in real world D&D games. Here "not knowing anyone else" is more of the norm than the exception. Sometimes a few players or the GM might know each other already from a different game (I'm for example GM a game and one of my players started one of his own, and I and another of my players play there now - with a bunch of more strangers that none of us knew before). Sometimes two people know each other in RL and join a game together. Very rarely you will find a group where a real-world group moved to Roll20 (maybe one of their numbers moved away or so) and you actually are the "odd man out" because 4 of the 6 people in the game live in the same town and have been playing together for 15 years. That can happen, and then it feels a bit odd, but that is the absolute exception. But I can understand where you come from. God, I remember when I was about to host my game here, I was scared, cause I knew nobody. Took me a week or so till I finally posted the LFG ad that I had finished writing long ago. :) It turned out well and I had a blast since.
well thanks all. I do hope to start with people I know, but I may just find a group here anyway.
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Good luck and remember if you have a question, just ask.