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by qtplatypus 1041 days ago
There are a two main of reasons.

* People are worried about reprisals from their employer. * Lots of people have a greater connection to the name that they have decided for themselves over one that was assigned to them at birth.

This is very common with tech people. Hence why Google+ had the nymwars when it tried to enforce a wallet name policy.