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You mean like that guy from The Black Eyed Peas?
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100% agree.
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With you on this.
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or maybe these handles are an extension, an extramural expression, of ‘you’ and that’s okay.
Doesn’t have to be a straightforward either/or.Also, Paul is a shit name unless you’re a rim brake.
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Can you really not imagine why someone would want to engage on the internet in a non-criminal, non-joke way and want to do it in a non-identifiable way?
I don't really want everything I post to be seen by current/future employers, work contacts, family or trolls in a way that readily connects it with IRL me. I don't take great pains to hide my identity but I also don't want to broadcast it with every casual utterance.
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@William.
Handles. On forums, twitter, instagram. Why not just put your name as your name. Then people know who you are.
Ok, so you want to pretend to be someone else, for a joke or to do crime. Fine. (crime is not fine obvs but at least its logical)
But if you're not pretending to be someone else, I dont get it.