Do You Have The Guts To Change Your Username To Your Real Name?

Following in the lead of Khephra, I was wondering if any other DUers had the guts to change their username to their real name?

I'm not asking WILL YOU, but rather, do you have the guts to, if, say, someone dared you for $500. :D

I used to have a blast on CU-Seeme until I was cyber stalked. It was the pits.

if they can't look it up, why should I care?

All my info is listed there.

I'm not afraid to take responsiblity for what I say. I don't hide behind "supernova", rather it's a way to honor all the joy I get out of looking at the sky.

Denice Sharpe

This IS my name.

:eyes:

i didnt know it was possible

G (Chip) Aspnes

on edit: I should add -- when I *want* anomynity on-line, I've got it.

First, I found out he wasn't a woman, now you tell me that's not his name? Next, you'll tell me he's not Egyptian!

By the way, who is Khephra?

I'd have to think about it.

There are 2 people here at DU who know my real name...
Plus based on a couple of old posts (from 2002), I gave my first name in one and my last name in the other.

Find them if you're that curious.

But it's because I work for an organization that's studiously apolitical, and I would feel like I was doing them a disservice having my name plastered all over a clearly partisan political site. It also might get me fired, and in this economy, I can't take chances on it.

If I didn't have them to consider, I would -- I used to have my whole name in my profile, but I took it out when I started working for them. If that situation changes, I'll probably put it back in my profile again.

which upset the wife... no thanks, I will stick to this one.

with the $500! Hell, maybe even for $250, I'm cheap and I ain't too proud to admit it! So wouldn't you all like to know what my name really is, cough up some dough and I'm yours!!!!!!!!!1

who are the celebrities, I'm dying to know! If one of you happens to be Barry Manilow and ya wanna know my real name, I'm all yours, in more ways than one!!! And no, it ain't Mandy, Melissa, or Lola, either! (true Manilow fans like yours truly will know what that means!) Whooo hooo, see what two glasses of white zinfandel and a long hot bath are doing to me!!!!!!!!!

the celebrities here at DU are Larry Storch and Estelle Getty. I dunno. We're just not on the A-List.

militias out there to support the 2004 coup. Me may need our anonimity to stay alive IKYN.

...middle, followed by first and last initials

How about if you've used your REAL name forever?
Never did want no "hippie names"!
:hi:

Bruce

to name your son Cosmos or Liberty, or your daughter Starshine?

But that's HIS decision as to what he wants to be called, LOL.
Is it 4:20 yet?
:hi:

Bruce

this screen name owns! How often can you go to websites and get the username "Sting?"

I ask in my best valley girl voice. Told ya we had celebrities. LOL
Duckie

Because, I don't want people to know how I voted.

for posting about the Bush-Nazi history

the lives of my wife and children were brutally threatened and I was harassed and intimidated.

I called the FBI and my Congressman (whom I know).

I also emailed John Loftus (whom I had interviewed on the radio)


I am convinced it is private military contractors working for Bush and the BFEE who do these things

but private and lone loonies may well also be inclined to harass and threaten.

So I will not likely disclose my name until I need to when my book comes out (hopefully this spring) in order to hopefully get your support.

But I WISH I could come out today and speak out against these crimes. I have in other public forums and have even on the rdio.

But this is a high profile site with high profile and ruthless opposition.


I will come out here as me. I can't wait to.

But for now I must wait. I fear for my family and I think only by having a BIG opening will I get any cover.

Interesting question. Glad you asked and more power to Khephra!

Unfortunately, "Gary Coleman" was already taken.

Professional and safety reasons.

and it wouldn't take $500 to get me to do it. I just gave out my real name on kef's thread because I've never hidden who I am. It's easy to trace Darth Velma to the real me.

NO FEAR!

Darth Velma
aka Barbara Simpson

on the Internet under my real name, which is nothing like "Lydia Leftcoast," and I want to keep the two spheres separate.

Basically, I want to keep my politics out of my business, unless it's something like refusing to translate an offensive text.

I've become attached to being simply, "Dude." But, I don't make a secret of my real name, as my occasional DU articles are all written under my name.

Plus, I'd be giving up my star, and two thousand posts, and it's taken me a while to get this high. :)

-CollegeDude
Plus the sig would never be the same

"Yeah, I Got The Guts To Change It (and I might one day)"

Should be: Yeah, I Got The Guts To Change It (but I can't because I have a job where that could effect other people, and myself, in a very negative way ).

Sorry:-)

I wish I had a different sn in retrospect though then again, people know me easier and shit so its ok I guess but heres my alias if you wanna see it, Dragoljub Djordjevic. I got bored one day with a friend and she made up a fake name for me, and the funny thing is Dragoljub IIRC isnt a real name but Djordjevic is, and btw its Serbian, which I personally am not but once thought I was. So yes this is my real name, theres time when I think I should have used a different sn, and others when I am happy I used my real sn, ps I am not really creative, thats why. Its kinda funny in a way, everyone knows my name and shit but I only know some people's first names and these are my better friends here whos first names I know, yet I dont know their last names either, so a lot of people call me Kleeb.
BTW people for future reference, dont call me by whole name, just a pet peeve, either Kleeb or John or even that alias I show above would be nice, or if you can make up another alias for me and use that, that would be nice too.
Kleeb.

at first, it was a parody of a nom-de-plume that I conjured up at a rowdy dinner-table. Nothing more than a wise crack about corrupted capitalism meshed with the artwork on the album cover of Pink Floyd's classic "Dark Side of the Moon.." A ray coming in at a different angle.

So the nick-name stuck, and resurfaces whenever my ol' college friends that I still hang with drop-by for some port, a cigar and other pleasant smokes. Ol' "piece sine" snaps back into the vernacular.

I then discover DU last summer and I figure, why not recycle? So "piece sine" has a wide and weird window in cyberspace.

I'm not going give that up for 500 bucks!

Do I hear $750?

n/t

I must be a glutton for punishment as I always use my real name.

I bet no one can guess my middle name.

and we don't call them wingnuts for nothing.

:shrug:

who stalked me for several years. I lay low even in real life, won't go anywhere I think the idiot or anyone he knows might be.

Accept no immitations :)


MDN

For all the reasons given above. If you think hard enough and use google you can find me. Like piece sine, I came up with this name ages ago and use it alot. Seventh grade I think, thats wow, 6 years ago.

I guess I don't have the guts. :D

But I'm afraid of most things, so it was expected. My first name's Jay though, which I think I've posted here on more than one occasion.

This is just a second thought, but someone told me Alec Baldwin is a frequenter to the lounge. The someone won't be revealed. lol

Duckie

which is why I'm here. (He found my Earthlink pages via Google, emailed, and mentioned DU.)

Could throw in the middle initial, I guess. But it doesn't seem fair unless we both change at the same time (which would be pretty funny, actually)

Have used my real name for years.
Do we get to split $500 Mr?/Ms? "Magic Rat"?

Myra

And just an observation, since you brought it up.
I've noticed that the most persistent and obnoxious
trolls in DU do not use their real names.

only cause my last name is my fathers and I don't like him

And I'd get into a lot of trouble.

I do remember talk of her and Babs posting on here a while ago.

but not to my real first and last name. First name only. A while back I somehow couldn't sign in under dofus and got a new account as SheilaT. I ought to see if it's still good.

to put my real name in my profile. So I put my credit card number instead. {[

I'm REP in real life, usenet and here.

If, like Will and Scott, I ever come up with something substantial to say.

First name and first inital of my last name. I use it everywhere because it's easier to remember and I have nothing to hide.

I am saying HOWDY FROM TEXAS :hi:

I'll be saying something a lot more provocative than Howdy. Probably get myself banned.

~~~droooool~~~

If someone really wanted to know who I was, they could read through my 850+ posts and could very well figure out who I am.

But I'd rather keep my real name off the boards. I like some anonymity.

I wouldn't do it for 10 times that amount of money, I don't need some nutcase looking me up and stalking me. :scared:

:hippie:

But I think ppl remember a nickname better. So I stick with it. Kamika is by the way a sort of a mix of my names.

Also ppl think my name is a nickname since its the same as a record label :p

(first name is a bit unusual) but that's as far as it goes.

Good on 'ya if you do. My hubby is not yet a citizen, I don't want to risk anything.

I have used this alias since I got here... It's my name and birthday!

I have huge balls of brass!

Always have and always will.

than the 33 year old housewife that I am.

...Liberal Veteran!

What? You don't believe me?

Can't simultaneously pump up your spouse's campaign and keep your anonymity...

Of course, if you can find me in Jackson Hole, even knowing that I live in Wilson, you're doing darn good. People who know where I live can't find where I live!

No option for 'my username is already my real name'. Where's my $500! :evilgrin:

And a lot of others here deserve that $500 as well.

:D

--Peter

My username shows that I value my privacy.

And I sign my posts "Bake," which is what my friends call me anyway. I have nothing to hide. Any freep wants a piece o' me, BRING IT ON.

Bake
David A. Baker

My name is Geni - and it's pronounced Jeannie, as in I Dream Of - P. H-----. I'm not tremendously imaginative with regard to usernames.

And lose my MASSIVE almost-1200-posts???

$500, you say?

Sure, no problem. I don't like this handle that much anyway. hehe