Google defaults new accounts to use the name they use for their email account unless you make a “brand account” IIRC which is actually fucking stupid
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 days ago
Am I the only one who has assumed any account using the format “Firstname LastName” since the early 2000’s is a not, because real people generally make creative usernames?
I know it doesn’t exactly work in the age of Twitter, where so many people were never taught basic online safety guidelines, which included NOT USING YOUR REAL GOD DAMN NAME, but old habits die hard.
r4venw@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Squirrelanna@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
Google+ changed my YouTube username to my real name lol
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
for whatever reason i ended up with my real name on youtube for a while, but thankfully you can just fucking lie and say your name is “Squirr Elanna”
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 days ago
These are all almost names in the same way. It makes me wonder if they’re variants in a language I’ve never seen before or (imo more likely) someone prompted ai for women’s usernames and it got confused by the cutesy ways people used to augment their names for usernames.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 days ago
There’s a counterpoint to that. In real hard truth, nobody is anonymous and creative handles can be traced back to a name easily.
But having pseudonyms affects human psychology. And makes people post things they wouldn’t want to be traced to them. And do things.
There was a time when it seemed that everything is insecure. That time didn’t end. Just with HTTPS everywhere and encrypted everything and with glossy appearances people have genuinely lost all understanding of the real world.
They think, metaphorically, that if there’s no name written on their door, everyone who asks can’t learn who they are.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 3 days ago
Or Noun-NounNumber
Like Jesus, mix it up. Even my ex wasn’t so boring with her usernames
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Cock-Enjoyer69420
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
What if you have a made up internet name?
melvisntnormal@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I’ve had my Google account for over a decade. At some point, I noticed my YouTube handle was just my name, and I don’t remember setting it to that.
On pretty much all websites, I have a default username I try to use, but I don’t remember getting that option when making a Google account
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
At some point YouTube tried to force you to use your real name.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I noticed it when the display name changed from my account to the made up name I used for the account.