[Kadin]

Yes, but the speed at which the behavior spread (at least on Twitter) was clearly a sort of viral phenomenon, and certainly looked like a fad. Maybe it'll stick around if it's useful to enough people, maybe it won't, maybe application designers will figure out a way to include it in the user's avatar or encode it in some aspect of how a user's name is displayed, rather than overloading the friendly-name field or whatever Twitter calls it.

[jazzyjackson]

> encode it in some aspect of how a user's name is displayed

perhaps by prefixing it with an honorific of some kind

[jjcon]

> maybe application designers will figure out a way to include it in the user's avatar

Otherwise known as having a picture of yourself as your profile picture?

> or encode it in some aspect of how a user's name is displayed

And known as having a name. This reads like SV bubble nonsense or well written satire, can't decide which.