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.
By the ankle.
I inherited my name from the previous Dread Pirate Roberts…
Not anymore, since it’s really valuable to not have fixed identity on the net.
Mine is a work of art
I have been this user name for seventeen years. I’m ADHD and forget friend on platforms. This makes it easy to find me.
Very attached
To the spliff or the username? :)
Pretty attached. My parents picked it.
If I could just be “Bill” everywhere I would but it really only works on the fediverse.
It’s my real name.
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Teenage me used the same or a similar username everywhere, but avoided ever mentioning his full real name.
Adult me realizes that this is stupid. Either I want people to recognize me from one place to the next, then I use my real name because why would I not want people from real life to find me too? Or I want to be anonymous, then I use a username no one from anywhere else will recognize, like I do here.
I use a new username for every account I sign up to.
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This is a cool idea
I use it everywhere. Google me. I don’t care
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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.
Enough to have been using it for 15~20 years. I only use it in a few sites though, where I feel like I want some sort of “identity” - otherwise I’ll pick something random.
Yeah pretty attached. It’s just a thing I like using as a synonym for myself