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.
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.
By the ankle.
It’s my real name.
That’s so cool!
Found you
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’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 :)
I inherited my name from the previous Dread Pirate Roberts…
Very attached
To the spliff or the username? :)
Mine is a work of art
I just use my username to express myself until people who don’t like me ban me and then choose another to continue being myself.
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.
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.
I just use my name.
But why is it cursive? Must have a deeper meaning 🤔
Artistic freedom 🙃
I will call you Sir Dirk from now on :D
I use a new username for every account I sign up to.
