I'm the ONLY one using my real name!

I'm literally MadMardegan... from Willow

Richard Dower wrote: »

Look at yáll....with your silly screen names, dunno why people do it, the illusion of privacy and anonymity on the internet has long since past. Maybe in the 90's....but now?

Every program and app has some location service, or GPS or an IP look up. My own story of why I use my real name goes back to '95...but it's sorta boring in present day contexts.

That's cos you're a tough ****

Richard Dower wrote: »

You're a guard and you're afraid you'll get shot?, seriously?....the IRA days are over lad, even the scumbags aren't mad enough to hunt you down using the net to shoot you!

And in twenty years?

The internet shows no signs of not being a permanent record of all of your activities. Thats what they try to impress on kids before they take phone pictures of themselves and upload it to places unknown. Very hard to undo.

More likely, Dick, someone can use enough information about you to piece together where you live and your comings and goings. Leaving town for a week? Sure thats grand, chat about places to visit when you're in New Zealand, post on FB to friends and friends of friends that you're not going to be home and come back to a house with a window smashed in and most of your valuables missing, everything from irreplaceable family heirlooms to the high dollar electronics. And the booze!

Thats not even taking into account the lax security you probably implement either. Presumably you use the same login and password for multiple websites, which would be fairly easy to pin to you because you use your real name and not a combination of pseudonyms. One of these logins gets compromised, and since it's the same as your others, all of your accounts get compromised. Losing access to your email account is one of the most crippling types of identity theft there is out there. With access to your email account its a cinch to reset all of your passwords to all of your accounts (and your inbox is a perfect record of where you've signed up accounts and when) and suddenly you're up **** creek, sir.

So, yeah, there are a couple good reasons not to make it plain as day who you are. Don't get me wrong, I've left enough internet breadcrumbs that someone could piece me together as well, and it wouldn't take anybody that was really motivated that terribly long to figure out (but by motivated I mean either I slept with your girlfriend or threatened to kill a state official), but it's convoluted enough that you'd have to be bored to a fairly high degree, and at this point I just expect anyone that has that much energy needs to get a job or adopt a cat.

My real name is Jesus of Nazareth. Some people call me Jesus Christ.

My internet pseudonym is debabyjesus because I thought it would be less intimidating. Do not be afraid my children.

My real name is boring & generic, so there's no point using it online. My parents both had their names shortened, and tried to give their kids names that couldn't be shortened. I'm not kidding - they told me this - but the result was ... blah.

I've never used my real name on the internet for anything that is in the public domain. Even my name on fantasy football things and that is an alias.

Was to do with the type of job I wanted and ended up getting. Didn't want me connected to anything on the internet.

Richard Dower wrote: »

Look at yáll....with your silly screen names, dunno why people do it, the illusion of privacy and anonymity on the internet has long since past. Maybe in the 90's....but now?

Every program and app has some location service, or GPS or an IP look up. My own story of why I use my real name goes back to '95...but it's sorta boring in present day contexts.

I use my real name no biggie.

hi,

my name is nigel beehive and I'm an alcoholic

Duck Soup wrote: »

You should come to the AA Christmas parties. We all get locked.

locked on heroin or love?