Wow i take a holiday vacation and you guys talk alot... neways I like the amnimity and uniquness that a SN can give you.. not saying i'm trying to hide anything.. chances are 90% of the accounts with this name are owned by me, but thats a different story.
Neways just to stick my two cents in, part of the reason i don't use my real name on msg boards is this.. go into a bar and shout mike.. how many ppl are going to turn around? the answer is alot.. I prefer Mike, but my ful leagle is Michael. and Michael is a very common name,.. so common in fact that i actually have considered leagaly droping it, but my middle name isn't that much better. and also I have leagle docs that do not have my first name on them... (still trying to figure that one out.) those makes 1, 2, and 3. Or how bout going back to my racing name? that gives me another to make 4. I even went by my stepfathers last name for a shortwhile, 5. Now my mom is getting maried again should i take a name from that family? for a total of 6 names. How many of my names would you like? Never was I really trying to hide who i was, but more trying to find out who i was, but still it's not that hard to change it, or falsify it.
On another note, when i moved to Indiana, the town i was in there was another with the same first name, middle initial, and last name as mine. I'm still trying to get all that sorted out, and that was about 5 years ago. (aparently he isn't very good at paying bills). Chicago there is another with same first and last name.. same in Minisota, Louisiana, Washington, and New York, thats just that I know of in the states. One in Frankfurt Germany tho he spells his first and middle name differently but it's the same. Wow look at that now i'm famous, and i really don't have that common of a name.
lastly my SN was given to my by a friend.. it has stuck for almost 10 years, and i don't have to put any #'s after it still. as respect i keep it. besides what harm is there to let my new friends call me the same as my old pals?
regaurdless i still put my first anme and last inital in for those of you who would like it, but your welcome to shorten it to two letters....
-=Cy