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There is no undo button when using your real name on the Internet. With a nickname, you always have the option of associating it with your real identity at a l
by Casseres 13y ago
There is no undo button when using your real name on the Internet.
With a nickname, you always have the option of associating it with your real identity at a later date if you so choose.
- DanBC 13y agoMost people do a lousy job of keeping the names separate. You can usually follow a chain of pseudonyms back through time to get to the early embarrassing posts. Meatball wiki changed my mind about real name posting. First I thought "always use an obvious nym", then "always use a realistic, but false, name". Now I just post using me real name on a few places, and a bunch of nyms (realistic and otherwise) in other places. My writing (especially my appalling use of punctuation) is distinctive. I think it'd be easy enough to tell if a post is mine or not by counting the weird commas. Perhaps privacy advocates need some method of making writing more anonymous? Lower-case everything, convert full-stops to new lines, strip out all out punctuation?
- spindritf 13y agoYes, but most people's e-reputation has to withstand only the most cursory of google searches so using a nickname, even without air-tight OPSEC, is often enough.
- computer 13y agoPeople should start choosing better nicknames! There's a reason I chose this one.
- mason240 13y ago>My writing (especially my appalling use of punctuation) is distinctive. I think it'd be easy enough to tell if a post is mine or not by counting the weird commas. It's very much an NP problem.