I originally went with the same name but have been using this one now since it’s new and the idea of starting fresh appeals to me.

My initial thought was to reuse my existing name so others who already knew me might see that I’m here since we never communicated outside of the given subs we were apart of. I’m not sure how likely that would actually be though. It’s not as if I was anyone popular or well known. So, my thinking is I’ll stick with my new one and move on.

What have you chosen to do? Start fresh or carry your username over?

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      Same. I’ve been justinh_tx for 20 years or more on just about every site/service that let’s you have an underscore in your username. If I can’t have an underscore I’m justinh512tx.

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      Replying to you. I’m brand new here and wondering how in the fuck do I leave a reply to the thread? The only reply button I see is for other comments not to the post.

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        The comment box is at the bottom of the stack of comments, so you have to scroll to almost the entire bottom of the page to start a parent comment.

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    This is one of three nicks I use all over the web. One for social media, one for shooters, and one for MMOs.

    So yeah, kept my /u/ from Reddit.

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    Completely new name, I had like, 10 reddit accounts, I’d make a new one every year to avoid anyone potentially stalking me

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    Changing usernames and/or deleting mature accounts can be an approach to privacy that may be useful. Tracking algorithms from huge tech companies might be sophisticated enough to identify you anyway with information like public IP/location and browsing habits, plus who knows what else.
    Nevertheless, I still change usernames frequently.

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      Same. After using the same account for a couple years it occurred to me that just by observing what subs I post in you could pretty easily figure out who I was if you were looking for me. Sub for my job, city, hobbies, chronic disease, etc. I figured there’s no good way around that other than just lurking, but since there’s not a lot of benefit to having an old account I might as well get a new one every year or two. Make myself just a little bit harder to find.

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        Yep this is what I do too. If you’re active in discussions the longer you have your account the more likely it is that it can be linked to your real self

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    This is a new one. I thought it’d be a great chance to come up with some cool new name but I feel kinda “meh” about it.

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    New. I didn’t need to consult some name generator this time to find something I liked. I thought about getting something crude but I’m going to be using this account for quite a while so I chose this.

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    New one. My reddit one is from over a decade ago. While most of my online stuff is using that ancient name, I’ve started using a few more since then. Granted I’m re-using one of my newer names, but still

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    Used the same username. I am envisioning a future in wherein whenever somebody needs to search up something on Google in regards to some tech issue/opinion, instead of putting “best gaming laptop 2023 reddit”, they will instead search “best gaming laptop 2023 kbin”