Why do people change their screen names, or for that matter their online address?

Ina

Ina

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Harris County, NE of Houston, Tx.
It is frustrating when you go to an address on line and it is gone, or not working. There isn't even a forwarding notice. I've had the same username and email address for 22 years. My scattered family always thank me for not changing it. They always remember it:eek:nthego:
 

Except for here, my username is Inatoy. My husband was setting up my first accounting computer, (all pencil and paper back then), when businesses got serious about going on line. It was late into the night, and he said he didn't' want to wake me. Really he just thought it was funny. His name is mine, but backwards and makes no sense.
 
Screen (user) names are I think quite a different beastie than email addresses, but the reasons for changing them can be quite similar.

If you have a stalker - you change them. If you commit a particularly silly faux pas online and get one million nasty responses, you change them. If you want to avoid the law, you change them.

If you are a professional spammer or hacker, certainly you're going to have a phone-book's worth of aliases.

If you write financial news briefs during the day and are quite well known, then you're going to want to have a change of ID when you write erotica at night.

And finally, sometimes you just want to re-invent yourself. ;)
 
Oh, don't get me going on texting / IMing - I wasted SO many hours on that little pursuit. It was fun at the time, but holding 6-hour marathon sessions just doesn't have the same appeal it once did.

I have a Twitter account but never use it. :playful:
 
I've changed email address numerous times. Since early 2007 I have blogged on .blogspot, nothing elaborate, merely a place to voice my opinion on whatever, or share something that impressed me, and one time to comment on politics or religion in an environment where no one knew me and I was not likely to embarrass anyone or hurt their feelings. This worked fine for a year or so, but eventually too many people would get to reading my blog and I'd delete it, or I'd get depressed and I'd delete it. Then I'd get a new gmail address and start a new blog, maybe just telling short, short stories from life. I've had six or seven, gmails and blogs, always using my real name. I've outlived my friends so I blog and read and sometime, comment here.
 

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