A while back i decided to forego my pseudoname in order to look more professional. This has led to many problems: for one, conflicts. It seems every other mont

A while back i decided to forego my pseudoname in order to look more professional. This has led to many problems: for one, conflicts. It seems every other month people mistake me for someone else with the same name. Either that or yet another person "mistakenly" uses my gmail address to sign up for a web service. My last name is also difficult for some people to pronounce. With a pseudoname, this was not an issue. Not to mention my pseudoname was pretty easy to remember... people even still use it! Really as far as i know, my lack of a pseudoname has not made me appear any more professional than before, so i'm finding it hard to find a good reason why i should even use my real name on the internet. In fact pseudonymity is a great tool to segregate online identities in this age where people will write and store prejudicial information about you for extremely long periods of time (forever if it gets to archive.org).