A brief, but significant, announcement

[elfs]

Storm

Yamaraashi-chan and I had a conversation yesterday evening, and one of the things we decided was that she no longer needs to be protected from the Internet by a psuedonym. She has her own Facebook account, which in true 13-year-old style is full of "OMG!"s, idle worship of idol celebrities, and the occasional shout of "Life is too confusing!", and it is under her own name.

Therefore, she would like me to stop calling her Yamaraashi-chan in print, and refer to her by her given name,

Comments

[trinsf.livejournal.com]

1. I hope it's spelled with sparkies canonically.

2. My children are (nearly) 19 and 22, and I still use pseudonyms for them. They like it that way. :-)

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I kinda wish she'd kept it, too, but she's very strong-willed about using her real name these days. I think she likes it.

The sparkles are optional, but appreciated.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_candide_/]

You could point out that one of your LJ readers and online-groupie-from-long-ago has gone by "candide" (or some variant thereof) online for the past 15+ years, to keep his personal musings personal, out of sight of prying eyes. Like prospective colleges or employers. They get directed to my more "public online persona," one which uses my name.

Not that she shouldn't be proud of such a unique and powerful name. ^_^

So, tell her I say, "By all means, use 'Storm,' anyplace you want to be publicly seen and known. But also have a pseudonym of your own that you use for places online where you want to speak freely."

(And of course, I have a third pseudonym that I use for pr0n sites, to add even more obfuscation and distance from my public online persona.)

[laplor.livejournal.com]

Mine can do as they like in their own accounts, but I will be calling them Thing1 and Thing2 for the rest of their lives (they are 16 and 18). They just sigh and roll their eyes.