Comments on: What’s in a (user)name? http://kerileebeasley.com/2009/04/06/whats-in-a-username/ Trying to get beyond the tip of the technology iceberg Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:10:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: craig steed http://kerileebeasley.com/2009/04/06/whats-in-a-username/comment-page-1/#comment-64 craig steed Wed, 20 May 2009 10:15:46 +0000 http://tipoftheiceberg.edublogs.org/?p=78#comment-64 Classic, I've often pondered this, should I have a fancy online name - then thought, nah that's just not me. So, craigsteed I am, wherever I go online. I feel it represents me well (it has done so for nearly 40 years after all, gee 40 years? 38 anyway). Similar to sue, I find the initial pseudonames hard to get my head around, but after a while, you get to know people and it doesn't make a difference. Same with profile shots, I kinda prefer photos. Maybe I'm a bit boring in that respect, but I like to see my online life as real as my real life, hence being me - my name, my photo. Classic, I’ve often pondered this, should I have a fancy online name – then thought, nah that’s just not me. So, craigsteed I am, wherever I go online. I feel it represents me well (it has done so for nearly 40 years after all, gee 40 years? 38 anyway). Similar to sue, I find the initial pseudonames hard to get my head around, but after a while, you get to know people and it doesn’t make a difference. Same with profile shots, I kinda prefer photos. Maybe I’m a bit boring in that respect, but I like to see my online life as real as my real life, hence being me – my name, my photo.

]]> By: Nadine http://kerileebeasley.com/2009/04/06/whats-in-a-username/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Nadine Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:56:31 +0000 http://tipoftheiceberg.edublogs.org/?p=78#comment-54 A real dilemma! My husband and I share an email account - have for years. That seems to work for us at home. Naturally, at work we have separate accounts, and all our professional usernames are individual - I am dickinsonn (Nadine) and he is dickinsonm (Mike). Because these letters are side by side on the keyboard, and because we are both international teachers in the same school, we often get emails meant for each other. This can be both annoying and interesting, depending on the content of the email! A real dilemma! My husband and I share an email account – have for years. That seems to work for us at home. Naturally, at work we have separate accounts, and all our professional usernames are individual – I am dickinsonn (Nadine) and he is dickinsonm (Mike). Because these letters are side by side on the keyboard, and because we are both international teachers in the same school, we often get emails meant for each other. This can be both annoying and interesting, depending on the content of the email!

]]> By: Sue Waters http://kerileebeasley.com/2009/04/06/whats-in-a-username/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Sue Waters Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:55:45 +0000 http://tipoftheiceberg.edublogs.org/?p=78#comment-53 I was exactly the same as you. My username use to be dswaters - initial of my husbands first name and mine. Personally I find names that a mixture of letters or pseudonames make it a lot harder for me to relate to that person and also remember their correct name. Which is one of the reasons why I changed my name. The other reason was to build my online identity and personal brand. It makes it easier with people to connect using the one name. It is quite painless changing your name. But I advise you to log out of all your twitter clients before you change your name because a couple of them were really hard to log back into once your name has been changed - due to the automatic login. Keri-Lee, notice you are trying to embed a poll - would you like my help embedding it into your post? I was exactly the same as you. My username use to be dswaters – initial of my husbands first name and mine. Personally I find names that a mixture of letters or pseudonames make it a lot harder for me to relate to that person and also remember their correct name.

Which is one of the reasons why I changed my name. The other reason was to build my online identity and personal brand. It makes it easier with people to connect using the one name.

It is quite painless changing your name. But I advise you to log out of all your twitter clients before you change your name because a couple of them were really hard to log back into once your name has been changed – due to the automatic login.

Keri-Lee, notice you are trying to embed a poll – would you like my help embedding it into your post?

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