Under the same username everywhere?

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ZeroGravitus:

Oh well. I don't know what those special interests of yours even are!

We're a funny bunch. I think we're interesting. Between us, we could probably compile an encyclopaedia to rival Wikipedia!

I keep learning things on here. Thanks to you, I now know the difference between slander and libel. And people keep using big words, which I then have to look up. It's great.

Either jm.nixon95 or jmnixon95... except for Facebook (wireddweirdd) and my new YouTube account after I forgot my password to "jmnixon95" (wiredeweirde).

I use the same name but a friend with his own financial advice company had to change his user name when he found out if he googled his companies name then his internet ramblings would come up first before his company because he used the same name.

No, I run under different names for each board I use.

I really really don't like being called anything but my name, so I try to use my names(especially my first name) as my username.

If I can't use one of my names as my username at any particular site I almost never register there, or if I do I might register a name just to ask a single question using a throwaway account, but it doesn't feel right to continue using the account because it's not actually my name. There have been many sites about subjects I've been interested in but which I haven't registered for because I couldn't use my name/names as my username.

I know this is a security problem, and I would really like to use a different name for security reasons, but I still have trouble with being called anything but my actual name by another person. Several times I have sat for literally hours just staring at Gmail trying to come up with a username I'd be comfortable being called but I haven't come up with one. I am comfortable coming up with a random string of characters to identify myself to a computer(like for a bank's web site), but if there's going to be any communication from other people I feel a need to use my actual name.

A few years ago I stopped using the combination of my first and last name as a username because I didn't want it to personally identify me, and I've been trying recently to stop using my last name(although it doesn't uniquely identify me), but the name "matt" is very common and so is often already taken.