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Why don't users use there real name, instead of calling themselves something silly?

In this day and age it is too easy to locate people. Using your legal name is risky.

eh?

Yeh, some nutjob might track you down and challenge you to a game...at work... home...Or they may just stop in to say hi and punch you in the face for claiming the skull...Who knows...

Why didn't you? Chadbourne can't be a real name surely 😀

Its really very simple....

I don't want to be Identified.


If you know someones name, and where to look you can find out all sorts of things about them....

for example:- Ever been in a newspaper? --finding that story will be easy...(most have large archives)

married? -- I do belive those records are in the Public Domain, so I can find out where, when and who you married...Legally.

...and the list goes on....

While it may all seem insignificant (and for the 'average Joe' it is) all this information could be of real interest to some wierdo/pyschopath stalker

What is my real name?

Originally posted by russell chadbourne
Why don't users use there real name, instead of calling themselves something silly?

For safety of course!

Originally posted by Sicilian Smaug
Billy Larry Reid?

Very close. You messed up the last part though.

Originally posted by russell chadbourne
Why don't users use there real name, instead of calling themselves something silly?

Aren't we all?

Originally posted by FabianFnas
Aren't we all?

im one of the few i think who have their actual name as their handle, my parents still hate me as much as when they named me

Originally posted by mazziewag
im one of the few i think who have their actual name as their handle, my parents still hate me as much as when they named me

whats your last name.....and phone number, address, bank account, and credit card number,???? thanks

I use my cat's name, but he doesn't know about it, otherwise i know he'd disapprove.