[Apreche]

I luckily came up with a unique username in the ‘90s. I use it everywhere online . Nobody has tried to impersonate me, at least not yet. It makes me easy to find. It makes it so people who see me on one site know it’s almost definitely the same person they saw on other sites using the same name. It makes it easy for people to contact me if they want to.

If I were to use my real name, it would actually be more confusing because other people share the same real name. It’s not super common, but by no means is it unique.

Of course it takes hardly any effort at all to link my username to my real identity. I understand fully the risks of not being entirely anonymous online. Thankfully it has yet to be a problem. And if there were to be a danger, I wouldn’t rely on something as fragile as digital anonymity to protect me anyway.

[withinboredom]

same. I had someone try to take over my twitter account once. I had fun with that one.