Very interesting topic! I use random nicknames a lot. For example on Freenode IRC. I then started talking on different channels and also, without hesitation li

Very interesting topic! I use random nicknames a lot. For example on Freenode IRC. I then started talking on different channels and also, without hesitation linked to some of my personal websites. Now I find IRC logs searching for my websites and leading from there, that random nickname which of course is not so random anymore then. It is a weird thing. You know its public, but you do not expect it to end up in a search engine. After all it is realtime like a conversation and who would think of recording (and indexing and publishing!) those. Until now I used IRC like the real world. You know there are cameras everywhere but you do not expect to be seen on them.