I tell companies, if they ask, what my nick name is and where I have posted. I act genuinely online, and I do not see it affecting my chances of getting any job I would want. If they dun wanna hire me cause I am a conservative statical Christian, chances are I would not fit anyways. I am, for the most part, authentic where I can be.
Not so long ago, If I put: "Anaisa" into the search, I dominated it. But now there are more people called Anaisa. I think their copying me. How dare they!
It's actually kind of useful because if you go to a livejournal search engine, you can type your screen name and find all this crazy stuff people said about you. But unfortunately reles is some kind of word in a different language? I think it was spanish, who knows really. Though, however, if I do type my complete screen name, I do come up with an EoFF page. All of my usernames are unique but I don't think my employer would be unimpressed, only maybe a bit because I spend a lot of time online.
My employer wouldn't be impressed, from the number of times I've said I'm surfing from work or told people how to bypass filters such as websense etc
I'm still not sure whether to phase out Cloudane for anonymity. On the one hand, I really like being identifiable from anywhere (nobody else seems to use this name). I've had people some boards say "hey, I recognise you from that other board!" and that's really really cool. I'm a noisy person on the internet and it's nice to feel one of the 'big' people in the crowd even if that's not necessarily the case.
On the other hand, it means being extremely careful of what I say and where. While I may be happy to let one small community messageboard see me naked, it doesn't mean I want the rest of the world to! Of course that's an extreme example but you know... the more people can piece you together from your various posts around the internet under the same name, the more scared you'll be when they recite just how much they know about you.
Whatever happens I'll still use the name here, as this is where it was invented, some... ooh, many many moons ago. Wow, February 2001 according to my profile, and I think it only says that because of a board wipe back then? I'm thinking I joined in about 1999/2000, I know it was a clever name for the site back then because FF8 had only just been released. Getting on for 6 years (or more) worth of my history on the internet, started HERE - wow. So even though I've been away for a while, this place is very special to me
What? Why would I not be able to use an old username in a new setting? The taint of my younger days would haunt me? If anyone is embarrassed that they were an immature child at one point in their life, then they are still immature enough to think that it really matters.Originally Posted by Martyr
Most of my usernames have been rather unique, and if I were of interest, there is enough out there on the web to get a nice story about me.
Well, I don't care that I was immature.What? Why would I not be able to use an old username in a new setting? The taint of my younger days would haunt me? If anyone is embarrassed that they were an immature child at one point in their life, then they are still immature enough to think that it really matters.
But if somebody else is immature enough to care, then it still becomes my problem, no?
If you are going to care what others are going to think, then yes, it could be a problem. The point is not to care about any associations; the less a deal you make of it when someone brings it up, the less of an issue it is.
If the question comes up about what an employer may think: why would you work for someone that ignorant? And the suppositions should stop there.
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