Is your "Handle" a part of you???
 

I different thread got me to thinking about our log in names or Handles. What does your name mean to you? How did you pick it and would it be hard to change your name? Is you name just as much a part of you as the legal one?

On this forum I am okiemom and would never blithely change it and orphan my story. Others like fresh starts.

We all know cyber world is not "private" but what can we reasonably expect for our online Nome de plumes?

Stars buy up web domain names so others can't buy them and contort them. What abut log in ids?

Where is all this going to go in the future as more and more of our lives and histories are on line? Will one day the web be mined fro our descendants on what we were like when we were alive? How permanent is the web?

I have often wondered how fast could someone locate me from just what I have on this forum. How hard is this now?

Yes, my handle is me - dad was a cowboy, and mom a debutante from Boston. I've always been a weird combo of the two of them, and a misfit in both worlds. They didn't stay together long, and my life has been a boomerang between the two.

Mine is my name, so yeah. It's a fairly common name, so probably not all that likely somebody will find me. All properties I own do not have my name on them anyway.

Even though my on line name doesn't really apply to me right now, it has been mine for over 10 years, and yes, it is ME.

Not really set on a username that I consider mine. I used to use the same one everywhere with the same email but I got followed around the web and harassed by this website owner once who was psycho and felt I owed him an apology and he was going to force it out of me. He was nuts, mad that I called him nuts, and then went all nutty on me, proving my point that he was nuts.

After that I started anew with mixing up emails, passwords, and user names. Have shook the psycho, I tried to go back to a universal username. The problem I mostly run into is that a name that is available at one site, might not be available at another, so I have to do weird variations along the same line of a name to try to keep them in my head.

Mine is no real mystery. I used to raise purebred longhorn cattle and actually signed up here right after BSE was discovered in Canada, to simply dispel some of the more outrageous rumors. While most people think wr are my initials, it actually reflects the bloodlines of cattle I raised, being those from the Wichita Wildlife refuge.

It seems that newer sites require more than two letters so if I need more, I add the two digits of my brand.

I use my name everywhere, it's me, I probably answer to it faster than my real name.
I don't change my name on different sites, always me, only a couple of times have I seen the name already taken *ravelry I am talking to you!* and it really annoys me when it is!

I owned and shown Arabian horses years back and this 'handle' was also my 'handle' many years ago when everyone had a CB radio. So its has been with me for years. LOL
I was on CB's when you even had to buy a license and use your call letters when signing off. LOL In fact that is one of my Arabians in my avatar. LOL

Id say no, Mine dosent represent me at all lol

Guess what my name is? And then guess what I do for a living?

:)

well bigjon is dead on,6'1" 270lbs of me,same on any site.given to me by my son-jon-lol.

When I first got on the web I chose mine. I am an old vet and wanted to make that clear.

Yes, Fennick is my real name. It's a common old northern British surname that literally means "farm near a fen" (fen means wetlands). It fits me since every farm I've lived on has always had an abundance of wetlands on it and I love to play with water.

Dale, Id guess your REAL name is Abner and your a used buggy salesman lol

I use my name everywhere I go...it was the name of my town before the one we have now...then gal because that is what I am. Even on FB I have rocktowngal in my url not my name.

Yes it is.My beloved ' s initials are MJ. I am his and I try to be a lady.... I fail often but I try!

My name is Mick and I live near a town named Lebanon. It's simple and easy to remember. The way we pronounce Lebanon, however, is different. If you are from a long way off, you say Leb-a-NON (rhymes with Al-a-non); if you're from close to here, you say Lebanun; if you're from here, you say Lebn'n.

I use two different nom de plumes, for two different types of sites. Originally, way back when, I actually used my real name, and I still do that on a limited range of related sites. However, I realised that was no longer a good idea as the Web developed. Now I mostly I use a made-up Celtic name that sort-of relates to my family, in a warped and twisted way. Either that, or as a child I was a solemn little tick, and a know-it-all (and intelligent), so I later adopted the name of L.Frank Baum's Professor Wogglebug, HM (Highly Magnified). After years, I'd look around if someone called any of them, so they are certainly part of me.

mine is a nick name, given to me by a very close family friend. now my family calls me wally.

Mine is the name of my business, the tattoo on my chest and just because....

Yes I am slightly addicted to RUST.
I have 13 of those old flywheel engines like this one and I like the rusty ones best. Just like they were last used. This one came right out of a barn where it had last been used. A little fresh gasoline and she fired right up.
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That is a gallon can from Neats Foot Oil used as a gas tank and a piece of solid copper wire for the spark plug.
That is what the original owner did to it and as long as it is working so well why would I want to change it.

Mine is because I am a watcher because I learned in my youth that you learn a lot by watching. You can tell what kind of a person, dog, horse and more is by watching it and how it acts and reacts to things.

Mine is in reference to my two children. When I was pregnant for the first time the movement felt like butterflies in my stomach. So my 2 butterflies:) I have a few different "handles/screen names" but they are all a part of me in some way or another.

My name is Callie, and my Indian name given to me by my Cherokee grandmother is Moonbeam Dancer, so my "handle" is kind of a conglomeration of those, lol. :)

I liked Green Acres, thought it would be cute to have a user name and also property name that would be similar. So, last name: Christie + Acres = Christie Acres.

"Nom de plume???" It's all Greek to me..

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It's my name and it's the way it's spelled!

And in my early baby years my parents and later on I continue the fight with those that need to mis-correct the spelling.... :hair

Just Karen was taken on the first site I join, I didn't want to have to remember different names.

farmergirl was taken and ffarmergirl was taken so I became fffarmergirl. The name is such a part of me and I like it that if I'm on another site somebody from here may see my name and know it's me and vice versa. My only problem with it is that I've got a lot older since I stated using it, I wasn't a young girl when I came up with it, and the name insinuates I'm younger than I am. I've thought about changing it to fffarmerwoman.

We had 'inch' worms strip most of our trees & found out you could buy microscopic wasps that would lay their eggs in the worms & basically eradicate the worms. They are: "tricchogramma wasps".
So, Since these wasps saved our trees, I AM the 'trickygrama". :)

Mine is the initials to the title of a bluegrass song.... and the moniker sort of fits :D

Mine is my surname spelled and pronounced how it was several centuries back. I also use it in my registered ADGA herd name and farm name.

From the old language; Hodded means hidden. Loki is the clever one, the trickster that cannot resist.

Hence, hidden trickster.

Loki

My dh & I both grew up on farms, & we are fourth gen. One of the first tractors I learned to drive at the age of 11, was a John Deere 4020. Always kinda been my favorite and I like the green & yellow. :)

God bless,
jd4020

Glad to know that a name is , to many, important, individual and self identifying. I would like to think my online name has a standing in the world similar to my real world standing. I would be very upset to know it had been hijacked and potentially tarnished.

Mine is an old one from another forum. A lot of people had names that were themed together, but now it's who I am on most places. It's come to mean even more, because I worked for several years as a baker and sweets were my specialty.

My father used to think that women were supposed to be shaped and formed by their husbands- -a la Pygmalian and Galatea...but he admired women who were fierce in defense of their children under any circumstances. He called them Mama Bears and alsways told us Never to get inbetween a mama bear and her babies as there was nothing fiercer or meaner than a mother bear defending her cubs. Since I was a grandmother by the time I found the Lucenet boards (and had already used the idea on some parenting/grandparenting boards) I just updated it to "There is nothing more fierce than an old Grandmotherbear in defense of her grandcubs"

Hee hee, um, yeah, it's a bit descriptive! :)

Spent 27 years in Alaska . Homesteaded and built a log cabin 11 miles from the end of the road. In Texas now but a big part of my heart is still in Alaska.
Yea going back this summer to fish with ol buds.

Is that 11 miles past Tolketna? (SP)
My old 1980 3/4 ton Chevy plow truck cut it's teeth in Alaska and it has a sticker in the rear window that says The Road Ends in Tolketna.
I am not concerned enough about the spelling to go out there right now and check the sticker. :happy2: