[jjrs11]

I think for a lot of people, being able to keep a pseudonymous identity is one of the few things that differentiates sites like reddit and digg from Facebook and twitter in the first place. Most people I know aren't crazy about letting others know what their reddit username is, let alone slapping everything they do on their Facebook feed.

[vidarh]

Exactly. My id here is my first name and initial. Correlating my username here with my full name, which is unique worldwide, is easy.

My Reddit id on the other hand does not directly tie to my name, and that's just how I like it.

It's still fairly easy to find - I don't care if people who really want to figure it out, as I don't write anything I can't stand for. If I wanted true anonymity I'd take a lot of extra precautions.

I just care that my Reddit comments don't show up on the first few pages of a Google search for my name, as it lets me not think as much about my "professional image".

Putting it on Facebook is something I'd never let happen.

There's a huge difference between being possible to find what I've written if you really care about it vs. it being showed in the face of my family, for example.

And this is without being part of any controversial sub-reddits. There are plenty of sub-reddits or individual threads that are offensive enough or controversial enough that I'd imagine they'd die pretty quickly if people were forced connect their Reddit identities to anything that might be directly matched to their names.