my online identity is pretty entrenched in a username i've been using for a decade. all the sites and services i care about, such as steam, use that username. there is very little shit i wouldn't want friends, family, or employers to see.
but godammit, i'm afraid to say shit or interact in places that don't make me look good. i'm afraid to hang out in places to talk about my interests, like vidya and learning japanese. and even just to be in proximity of people who might be a bit retarded.
i've considered creating a new identity to keep my real and online lives separate, but i'm just so invested in my main one. i have hundreds of games on steam, online and forum accounts well over a decade old, and everyone knows my username and email. and it's just nice to have the exact same handle everywhere.
i'm not sure on what to do. i want to keep the identity everyone has known me for so long for, but at the same time, i just wish i could hang out and talk about random shit and not worry about people finding that shit on google.
how do you deal with keeping your family/friends/work/gaming lives separate?
>>339778693
just realized i completely fucked up my first paragraph. i meant that i have an online identity that is entrenched as fuck, where my family/friends/gaymen friends/employers all know about. and as such, it's curated like hell so that nobody sees me talking about shit like etrian odyssey, for example.
Great blog you massive faggot
just do it faggot
Most of /v/ doesn't have a life outside of videogames.
>>339778693
>letting people outside of the internet figure out your common online handle
>not having an online name that is impossible to trace back to you if someone tries to search for your name on google
>not already having multiple identies for everything from forum browsing to more "bussiness" oriented
>mfw i google my main online name all i get is streaming some literally who show called arrow for all 11 google search pages
you fucked up OP
>not having different names for every service
>not making a new name each time
>>339779184
my username and email are pretty clean on google, anon. nobody has anything on me. i could start everything over pretty easily.
i'm just curious if maybe that's too paranoid, and nobody actually gives a shit about what you do on the internet. one of my friends who works in IT as well has EVERYTHING out in the open, ranging from vidya to incredibly obscene furry porn. it's all very googlable, and he's told me that none of his irl friends or employers have ever given a shit about any of it.
I don't get it. I have the same handle on everything as well and my friends, girlfriends, co-workers all know it. ... whats the big deal?
>not having a 100% generic online name
>>339778845
What the heck is wrong with people knowing you like Etrian Odyssey? That's one of the most socially acceptable games I can think of. There's nothing in it that would disgust normies, they'd just see it as another nerdy dungeons and dragons game.
>>339778693
>have a common as fuck full name
>use a weeb ass handle
>use zero social media
>nobody has the patience to find me on my anime game services
>never play games with rl friends because they hate weebshit
>shitpost and grief in peace
>>339780867
my username is unique as fuck. it doesn't have any gay XxX Shit XxX or any numbers, and it isn't some random combination of letters either. to date, no site i've registered on has ever had that username, and every single search result and google image search links back to me.
i don't know whether that kind of uniqueness is a good or bad thing, hence why i've played it safe with what kind of stuff i associate with it.
>>339781079
etrian odyssey was a bad example. i just mean if that someone searched my profile on a site like giant bomb and saw thousands of posts of me talking about random shit, and i happened to talk about something weird like rapelay one day, that'd be embarassing for me.
maybe i'm just being irrational.
