Handles and Anonymity
Mar. 2nd, 2009 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
womzillaIn the recent discussions of psuedonyms and anonymity, I haven't seen anyone mention what I think of as one of the best reasons for using a handle: distinction.
There are at least a dozen other Kevin Maroneys in the United States; I bet there are a couple dozen more in County Claire (the ancestral home of the Maroney name). As nearly as I can tell, I'm the only Womzilla anywhere in the world. Thus, when I create a user account at one of the many fragmented pools into which online discussion pours, I just grab womzilla and go with it. It makes it easy for people to recognize me-in-particular, and it's very portable.
That might be obvious, but I haven't seen it discussed, so I'm just tossing it in to the discussion. Nothing to see here; move along.
(I'm continuing to recover from the surgery. I no longer come home completely exhausted every night. Yay my nose.)
ETA: Of course, as soon as I hit "post entry", I see a comment by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
anton_p_nym that makes much the same point. And correcting some editing errors. Sigh. More tired than I thought.
There are at least a dozen other Kevin Maroneys in the United States; I bet there are a couple dozen more in County Claire (the ancestral home of the Maroney name). As nearly as I can tell, I'm the only Womzilla anywhere in the world. Thus, when I create a user account at one of the many fragmented pools into which online discussion pours, I just grab womzilla and go with it. It makes it easy for people to recognize me-in-particular, and it's very portable.
That might be obvious, but I haven't seen it discussed, so I'm just tossing it in to the discussion. Nothing to see here; move along.
(I'm continuing to recover from the surgery. I no longer come home completely exhausted every night. Yay my nose.)
ETA: Of course, as soon as I hit "post entry", I see a comment by
anton_p_nym that makes much the same point. And correcting some editing errors. Sigh. More tired than I thought.
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Date: 2009-03-03 04:46 am (UTC)There was a time when I was hampered from posting about work (where I am now, still) when I was profoundly frustrated about it, because the guys at my job knew about Hindsight Aforethought/my LJ. It took a real psychological toll, but they learned about my writings while I was between stints with them, and who knew I would ever return there? I went back expecting it to be a few weeks.
That's the only occasion I wanted to discuss personal stuff online and felt constrained from doing so. Most of the personal stuff I would feel like venting about online is too personal even for my friendslist.