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You'll never be subject to a cash bar, gap, potluck wedding, or b-list if you marry a Muppet Overlord.
Using Names as Handles
This is really meant for the lurkers so they can adjust their name before posting. We suggest anonymizing your handle/screen name because you are giving your information to the internet full of strangers. Do for the regs, do you googlestalk people when they use their real name or e-mail address as their handle?
You'll never be subject to a cash bar, gap, potluck wedding, or b-list if you marry a Muppet Overlord.
Using Names as Handles 78 votes
Yes. Sometimes, or always.
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No. Never
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Re: Using Names as Handles
You'll never be subject to a cash bar, gap, potluck wedding, or b-list if you marry a Muppet Overlord.
Yep I have, to try to figure out if a post is MUD or not.
Another thing to consider besides using your full name/email as your SN...
If you use your first name as your sn (i.e. Melinda42289) and have a pic in your sig titled "Thompsonwedding.jpeg" or whatever... then I'm pretty sure you're that Melinda Thompson born on 4/22/1989 on FB with your profile not set to private.
I'm not even remotely a techie, but any hacker on a mission could find you out quick and make your life notsofun beyond your BSC wedding.
Apparently Sydaries is a real name.... And here my 11 year old self thought I was being clever.
You can find my old photobucket and sephora accounts, but that's about it.
(I lost internet today)
I was trying to note also that people not on TK totally will googlestalk you when they know you in person, and if you're posting things like about your fake wedding, or hating your FMIL, or wanting to ditch your MOH, it might bite you in the ass later too.
Just an example, people google me a lot at work to get my information and one year, someone posted on a forum with a title that insinuates that they had sex with me. They go on to talk about how I have the hottest name...blah blah and that I gave them a good deal on equipment that I sell.
It's so embarrassing. It comes up all the time when people talk to me at work. I can't wait for my name to change. It just goes to show you the trail of horror that can be left on the internet for people to look at later.
You'll never be subject to a cash bar, gap, potluck wedding, or b-list if you marry a Muppet Overlord.
My maiden name is the same as a porn stars. That's always fun.
That shows up on mine too. I have no idea what it is.
Google my current TK sn, and you get several pages of Scott Pilgrim fan sites (hell yeah!) before any of my TK stuff even blips on the radar.
Online safety people, it's important!
If you google this name you get Game of Thrones spoilers. So don't.