There was a time in the early days of the 'net where using your actual name (and by extension your mothers maiden name) would have been considered perverse- "It

There was a time in the early days of the 'net where using your actual name (and by extension your mothers maiden name) would have been considered perverse- "It's the internet, we can be whoever we want to be". Sadly the powers that be have shifted that away to the point where you are a misfit if you are using accounts that are not linked in some way.