I think I grew too much on the internet to understand how some people have blog names.
Like, I’m from IRC and trans communities, if your username is bball24, that’s your name. I assume your mom addresses you by that name and it reads the same on your driver’s license and maybe even birth certificate l.
I never think “oh, best-tardis-in-the-galaxy is a blog run by some gal named Sarah!”. No, if I think of the name at all, it’s like obscure trivia. My good friend Ms. Best-tardis-in-the-galaxy has the government name ‘sarah’. Perhaps she hasn’t been able to change it yet, too much paperwork or something?
I just sometimes see people post things like “what’s your blog name mean?” and I’m like “it’s me. What else would it be? You mean kirk’s-big-saggy-tits isn’t your name?”
Basically it’s something like Facebook’s real name policy but from the other angle. I think everyone is named what their username is, not vice versa.
(and yes, my name is foone. My mom calls me that and it’s what’s on my license. Isn’t that true for everyone?)
Early internet culture had a lot of problems, but IMO this norm is a very good one.
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#I don’t go *exclusively* by Brin but there are well over a dozen people in meatspace social contexts who know me by that name #I like my birth name and I don’t plan on dropping it altogether but there really is something to be said for picking a name yourself #names #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
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