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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Deeply attached. If anything ever happened to it I’d be completely devastated.
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I’d rather not have a recognizable persona online
This name is just the fewest a’s i was allowed to register with
The “Take On Me” strategy of choosing a name I see.
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
It’s my real name.
That’s so cool!
Found you
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Don’t reuse passwords. Reusing usernames shouldn’t be a huge issue, no?
Nope, unless you are worried about stalkers.
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 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…
I’m more attached to it then my real name
Agreed, its my online name (and i am online more often than not)
You can take it from my cold, slippery hands.
Ew, you can keep it :)
Mine is a work of art
Not anymore, since it’s really valuable to not have fixed identity on the net.
I have a couple of usernames that I have used - or, more often, used variations of - for quite some time over a range of sites. However, it is not so much that I am attached to them as such. It is more that I can’t be arsed to come up with something new each time.
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To the spliff or the username? :)
Not at all. These days I just use random words when I sign up for new services.
I used to have a ‘consistent’ online identity, but at some point I decided I didn’t want others to be able to make connections between them.
Yeah, one of the advantages of password managers that’s not often mentioned. Aside from your password, it can remember what username, e-mail address, phone number, fake name or whatever else you used during signup.
Pretty attached. My parents picked it.
If I could just be “Bill” everywhere I would but it really only works on the fediverse.
