Sometimes I don't make an account on a website because I don't want to choose a username and regret it later. (Shoutout to the websites that let you change your username, you the real ones)
Like, there are versions of some go-to ones since childhood but sometimes they seem tarnished by trauma. But on the other hand, it'd be nice to redefine them with more positive things now too, so maybe continuing to use them in positive contexts will help me stop associating it with bad things.
There's also the potential that someone will recognize you form another online community if you use the same username though... would you want that in this case? Is that indirectly linked to your real name, too? Is this a site where that would be ok?
Or worse... what it they recognize me from gradeschool and remember how cringey and awkward I was and think I must be the same???
Ok so say I want to just make up a new username. It's done, and I'm sauntering around the internet with this cool new screen name... then I come across a user who has a name similar to one of my go to-ones.
Great, now I'm jealous.
Help, I'll never be able to have a child because I won't want to name it.
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