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better to use an alias or be who you are?

― ppp, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

I think it depends on what you write about. I didn't put my real name on my blog b/c I wrote a lot about school and I didn't want stories about my students to be connected to them via me. However, it wasn't too hard to figure my name out via other links and stuff.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

Sam OTM: easily findng your name from your blog = classic, easily finding your blog from your name = dud.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)

Friends who use your full name for no real reason on their googleable blogs - dud.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)

HA, I'm lucky in that only 1 of my vast array of friends actually knows what a computer looks like.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

I use my own name. I don't care.

― mike a, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

easily findng your name from your blog = classic, easily finding your blog from your name = dud.

OTFM there. A girl who I was friends with in elementary school and haven't seen in about 10 years googled me and ended up at my blog via some links. It was cool to get back in touch but very creepy at the same time.

― Candicissima (candicissima), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

Schneier On Security

Joel On Software

AndrewSullivan.com

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

I've got one under my name that I never use. I just can't get used to it. It's kind of like printing a newspaper (or 'zine) that's called TRE BAKER. I mean, the blog isn't me, dig? It's just the blog that I write.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Based on the links I posted and what other people are saying here, which makes sense, I think it mostly hinges on what you're using the blog FOR. If it's to extend your professional identity and boost your career by keeping an audience tuned in for updates, then you wouldn't want to use anything but your actual name, the same one you're going to speak under at conferences and the one that appears in the byline. But if you don't want your mom or your boss to read it then don't.

Seth's Blog

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

Haha and of course Seth's latest post says it better.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Exactly. I don't blog about work, my cast of characters is relatively small (mostly my wife, my daughter, and other bloggers), and I do my share of self-promotion. No point in creating an alias.

― mike a, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

haha you said 'dig?'

xxxpostasucka

― sunny successor (standing in the light of my own musical power) (katharine), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

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