Do you have a single username you feel attached to?
Or do you like to use different names for different occasions?
Edit two and a half days later:
Thank you all for answering my question! It was so interesting and fun to read all of your responses.
I really appreciate you for taking the time to write.
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Pretty attached. My parents picked it.
If I could just be “Bill” everywhere I would but it really only works on the fediverse.
Not anymore, since it’s really valuable to not have fixed identity on the net.
whenever a cool name springs to my mind, i add it to a text file. i use that file when i create accounts or game characters and mark names in it i already used.
This is a cool idea
Teenage me used the same or a similar username everywhere, but avoided ever mentioning his full real name.
Adult me realizes that this is stupid. Either I want people to recognize me from one place to the next, then I use my real name because why would I not want people from real life to find me too? Or I want to be anonymous, then I use a username no one from anywhere else will recognize, like I do here.
By the ankle.
Yeah I love eating chicken and rice
Edit: just ate some chicken and rice
I have been this user name for seventeen years. I’m ADHD and forget friend on platforms. This makes it easy to find me.
I inherited my name from the previous Dread Pirate Roberts…
It’s my real name.
I kept my randomly generated username from reddit here, because I see it as a continuation from my reddit account after reddit killed itself
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Don’t reuse passwords. Reusing usernames shouldn’t be a huge issue, no?
I guess it makes it easier to do social engineering
Exactly. Average person, not a big deal. But if someone for some reason decides to target you, you give them a huge amount of days about you quickly. I tend to make a new name for each service.
Oh, I don’t use this name everywhere. I like to be recognized online, but the Venn diagram of those who know me online and those who know me offline is basically two separate circles.
I’m pretty attached to my username, sometimes people call me by it and I even have some nicknames originating from it. I use it in only four places, but I definitely feel it has become my default username as of recently.
Mine is a work of art
Some people call me by my username (“reiver”) when they meet me in person.
To me, it is as much my name as my given-names are.
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When I consider signing up for a new platform — if my preferred username isn’t available, I often won’t join.
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Which never used to be a problem — as it is an obscure English word using its archaic spelling —
But, there are a lot more people on the Internet now, than there were two or more decades ago. So sometimes it gets taken by someone else.
I flat out refuse to have alt accounts because of it.
