First, I never said your real name is Swizec, I just said that your real name (whatever it is) is currently unique on the Internet. You happen to say that on yo

First, I never said your real name is Swizec, I just said that your real name (whatever it is) is currently unique on the Internet. You happen to say that on your blog (as of 2012-04-03, 11:47 GMT, anyway): "4121 people share my real first name, my surname, 298. The combination happens to be unique … for now." So, are you saying "If I started using my real name as my Internet handle, I would be anonymous"? Or "...because many other people with the same name will also do so, any minute now"? In my opinion, false and false: you'd effectively 1) make your identity your pseudonym, and 2) as such, would be trivially cross-linked to your RL identity, even if (and that's a huge if) thousands of people were using the same real name as you are. In my case, there are actually hundreds of people using the same real name as I am - yet, it is quite obvious which one is which, from the way the identities are linked together (e.g. many of my profiles share the same picture of me, my professional profiles all list the same experiences, my location, etc. etc.). See, your identity is not only your name - it's a cloud of all the things surrounding it.