Joining Things

[forestofglory]

I decided to make a email account for job hunting since my academic account will be disappearing in a few months. So I went and made gmail account. It's based on my name because that seems to be normal now. But it feels weird. When I first joined things on the internet everyone used pseudonyms and since that seemed to be the normal thing I did too. I guess a lot of time has passed, but still feel uncomfortable sharing my legal name.

Also I finally made a twitter account as Forestofglory. I was spending enough time looking at what people were posting there that I thought I ought to try having an account. I've experimentally followed some people, but I'm still not sure how the whole thing works.

Comments

[zhelana]

Certainly for a professional email address some combination of a legal name is appropriate. I use mine for my regular email address as well because it's easier.