{"id":3071,"date":"2011-07-07T22:29:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T03:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=3071"},"modified":"2011-07-07T22:33:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T03:33:10","slug":"beginner-screen-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=3071","title":{"rendered":"Beginner Screen Names"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Good, an article by Amanda Hess on\u00a0The Eternal Shame of Your First Online Handle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“The other day I made a comment on someone’s blog and I noticed I was the only one that put my online pseudonym into the name field,”MetaFilter<\/a> founder Matt Haughey once wrote of the changing nature of online self-identification. Haughey had found himself the lone alias in a field full of real-life, first-and-last-named commenters. “This is one of those moments when you notice you’re becoming a dinosaur,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

That was 2003<\/a>. Since then, the trend toward aligning our online and offline personas has only accelerated. Today, humans stake online claims to their real-life names before they can even\u00a0form words<\/a> orsurvive outside the womb<\/a>.\u00a0(via Kottke)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Here’s mine<\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Handle:<\/strong> HANDSOFFIT<\/p>\n

Platform: <\/strong>AOL<\/p>\n

User: <\/strong>Kevin Casey AKA\u00a0astro_astro, astroblastro, kcasey, kvncsy<\/p>\n

Why:<\/strong> Maybe fighting over the keyboard with my sister? I don’t remember why really, but it was\u00a0cool <\/em>in a Kid Vid kind of way. That was back in the chat-room\u00a0days. (ASL?)<\/em> I can remember being put off by the in appropriateness of someone asking “hands off what?”<\/p>\n

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From Good, an article by Amanda Hess on\u00a0The Eternal Shame of Your First Online Handle. “The other day I made a comment on someone’s blog and I noticed I was the only one that put my online pseudonym into the name field,”MetaFilter founder Matt Haughey once wrote of the changing nature of online self-identification. Haughey…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,122],"tags":[330,331],"class_list":["post-3071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-from-the-archive","tag-handsoffit","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3071"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3082,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions\/3082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}