Once an alias gets old enough, I think it counts as "standing behind your comments personally" - if you cared to go looking, you could find some pretty dumb stu

Once an alias gets old enough, I think it counts as "standing behind your comments personally" - if you cared to go looking, you could find some pretty dumb stuff I posted years ago on other sites when I was in high school, but I'm still using the same alias. Why use an alias? Partly the romance - online handles just feel like they come from some earlier golden age of the Internet, when it was the domain of scrappy hackers rather than big advertising corporations (it's likely mythical, but it's before my time in any case). Also, my username is quicker to type and more unique than my real name - in some ways it is a better identifier for me than my name.