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my.nameis.me, a project to support your right to choose your own name on social networks.
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telophase partly to separate my offline, non-fan life from my online fannish life, and partly because I've spent years establishing an online identity under that name. There's a bit of overlap - I blog under my real name on The Hooded Utilitarian, for one, and I use my first name at Librarian@Large - but the way I define it is that I use my real name for things that I may want to put on my resume/C.V. one day, or that I don't mind being revealed to my coworkers. The reason I don't link LJ/DW to my Facebook page is that I have coworkers on Facebook (having my office in a box in the basement means that the majority of my interaction with my coworkers occurs over email and on Facebook). I'm treating my Google+ account as if it were Facebook because of their real name policy.
It's probably telling that when I go to a convention and I want to be anonymous, I put my real name on my badge.
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telophase partly to separate my offline, non-fan life from my online fannish life, and partly because I've spent years establishing an online identity under that name. There's a bit of overlap - I blog under my real name on The Hooded Utilitarian, for one, and I use my first name at Librarian@Large - but the way I define it is that I use my real name for things that I may want to put on my resume/C.V. one day, or that I don't mind being revealed to my coworkers. The reason I don't link LJ/DW to my Facebook page is that I have coworkers on Facebook (having my office in a box in the basement means that the majority of my interaction with my coworkers occurs over email and on Facebook). I'm treating my Google+ account as if it were Facebook because of their real name policy.It's probably telling that when I go to a convention and I want to be anonymous, I put my real name on my badge.
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What I do at work and what I do creatively are so disconnected I see no reason to connect the two.
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I have a separate LJ for politics to insulate my wife from the fallout of my more strident opinions, and to keep them away from people who want to friend me out of social reasons. There's another guy out there with the same handle but he posts on unrelated forums so we haven't name-clashed.
Facebook is mostly for my State Guard colleagues, with a few from work. So I keep it plain, mostly kid pix and such.
G+ I just have a placeholder on. I've given some thought to making another account as a backup to the political LJ but haven't made any decisions yet.
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It's one of the reasons I don't use Facebook that much, or rarely trust it with opinions or things that aren't something I'd reveal to family acquaintances.
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I've got my real name on a Facebook account because an old friend persuaded me to sign up. I made one or two posts and gave up. This online ID of mine is now... what, going on fourteen years old? I'm not 'hiding' a thing. I don't sockpuppet, I don't troll and I don't stalk. I'm just expressing myself as I see fit, with a veil of decent (if not impermeable) privacy between me and the all-seeing Eye of Google. Using a different name online from the one I use with relatives and real-life associates is exactly analogous to how one would refrain from discussing certain subjects when certain people were in the room.
It's my general impression that people who can't see the problem with requiring legal names online are those whose lives have very few complications. I.e., they tend to be childless, straight, well-to-do, healthy, non-religious, not given to unusual hobbies, apolitical... and so forth. Sometimes they're so young (Zuckerberg) that they haven't had time to accumulate any wrinkles, but sometimes (certain over-earnest legislators) they're just lacking in imagination.
Certainly they've never, ever posted anything to alt.sex.fetish.startrek. :D