"real" names versus names

[kalmn]

i didn't used to get why people might not want the name they use online to be easily attachable to their legal name.

due to various things going on in my life at the moment, i now totally get it.

i get it so much that i'm screening comments to this post, i tell ya.

i think that people's names, of whatever form, should be able to be traced back to them, by people in the community where they use that name. but that's different from "easily attachable to their legal name".

eta: if you're okay with me unscreening please say so.

Comments

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

I never had the name Hellziggy until I set up this LJ in August 2002. Now it is as much a real name for me as my real name.
People who know me as Hellziggy should be able to find/figure out my real name, because I don't hide it. On the flip side though, people who know only my real name probably wouldn't find my Hellziggy identity. Partly because Snyder is a relatively common last name.
I love the fact that if you Google Hellziggy every single hit you get is me.

(yeah, you can unscreen) :)