I have never felt a need to mask my identity while online, even when I was younger and stupider than I am now. Hell, up until this year I didn't even bother to

I have never felt a need to mask my identity while online, even when I was younger and stupider than I am now. Hell, up until this year I didn't even bother to censor anything I said online. Unfortunately, now that I have the reputation of a business to worry about I have to be far more careful, but it's still not that big of a deal. Life is about trade-offs. You trade some anonymity for some convenience or a useful service. Being anonymous on the Internet, in the sense of nobody knowing your true identity, hasn't really gotten any harder. Sign up for whatever you want, just don't use your real name. Pick some kind of innocuous handle and use it for all the inter-connected services you need and make sure those services don't also connect that ID with your "real" one.