Am I the only one who has assumed any account using the format “Firstname LastName” since the early 2000’s is a bot, because real people generally make creative usernames?
I know it doesn’t exactly work in the age of Twitter, where so many people were never taught basic online safety guidelines, which included NOT USING YOUR REAL GOD DAMN NAME, but old habits die hard.
There’s a counterpoint to that. In real hard truth, nobody is anonymous and creative handles can be traced back to a name easily.
But having pseudonyms affects human psychology. And makes people post things they wouldn’t want to be traced to them. And do things.
There was a time when it seemed that everything is insecure. That time didn’t end. Just with HTTPS everywhere and encrypted everything and with glossy appearances people have genuinely lost all understanding of the real world.
They think, metaphorically, that if there’s no name written on their door, everyone who asks can’t learn who they are.
These are all almost names in the same way. It makes me wonder if they’re variants in a language I’ve never seen before or (imo more likely) someone prompted ai for women’s usernames and it got confused by the cutesy ways people used to augment their names for usernames.
for whatever reason i ended up with my real name associated with my google account, but thankfully you can just lie and say your name is “Phuck Yuu” or whatever else is fun when split in twain
Am I the only one who has assumed any account using the format “Firstname LastName” since the early 2000’s is a bot, because real people generally make creative usernames?
I know it doesn’t exactly work in the age of Twitter, where so many people were never taught basic online safety guidelines, which included NOT USING YOUR REAL GOD DAMN NAME, but old habits die hard.
Google defaults new accounts to use the name they use for their email account unless you make a “brand account” IIRC which is actually fucking stupid
I’ve had my Google account for over a decade. At some point, I noticed my YouTube handle was just my name, and I don’t remember setting it to that.
On pretty much all websites, I have a default username I try to use, but I don’t remember getting that option when making a Google account
At some point YouTube tried to force you to use your real name.
I noticed it when the display name changed from my account to the made up name I used for the account.
There’s a counterpoint to that. In real hard truth, nobody is anonymous and creative handles can be traced back to a name easily.
But having pseudonyms affects human psychology. And makes people post things they wouldn’t want to be traced to them. And do things.
There was a time when it seemed that everything is insecure. That time didn’t end. Just with HTTPS everywhere and encrypted everything and with glossy appearances people have genuinely lost all understanding of the real world.
They think, metaphorically, that if there’s no name written on their door, everyone who asks can’t learn who they are.
These are all almost names in the same way. It makes me wonder if they’re variants in a language I’ve never seen before or (imo more likely) someone prompted ai for women’s usernames and it got confused by the cutesy ways people used to augment their names for usernames.
Google+ changed my YouTube username to my real name lol
for whatever reason i ended up with my real name associated with my google account, but thankfully you can just lie and say your name is “Phuck Yuu” or whatever else is fun when split in twain
Or Noun-NounNumber
Like Jesus, mix it up. Even my ex wasn’t so boring with her usernames
Cock-Enjoyer69420
What if you have a made up internet name?