I’ve grown very attached to my username and see it as part of myself. I like to be recognized by my name, and try to keep it unique. Partly because it’s a part of me that I don’t get to express often in daily life.
However, I do keep my personas strictly separated from each other. I have one for professional use to ask questions that can be too easily identified with who I am offline, several for throwaway names and this one for social interactions. I don’t care too much about the others, but do like to see myself as Thelsim as much as my other self.

I try to vary usernames on high anonymous community. While on some other communities, I go by the same which is more or less attached to my real life persona.

I have a couple of usernames that I have used - or, more often, used variations of - for quite some time over a range of sites. However, it is not so much that I am attached to them as such. It is more that I can’t be arsed to come up with something new each time.

Not attached much. I misspelt this username for Yahoo Chat almost 2 decades ago and stuck with it.

for a long time i have used moskito10, but i decided on my current one a few years ago.

I just use my name.

Deeply attached. If anything ever happened to it I’d be completely devastated.

My username is different on (almost) every website. The amount of websites I’m on (especially considering I hold the world record for website registrations) would make it pointless to reuse any.

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I just use my username to express myself until people who don’t like me ban me and then choose another to continue being myself.

This name goes back to the early text-based multiplayer adventure games of the late 80s, when our area of the Internet was still called ARPAnet. It was originally (Felix) Hausdorff, the founder of Topology. But, Hausdorff is a lot more typing than Haus.

Very

whenever a cool name springs to my mind, i add it to a text file. i use that file when i create accounts or game characters and mark names in it i already used.

I do take care in finding a suitable username. I have four accounts on different instances and all have different names, but mainly because i find it easier to see which account i am currently using. I like my usernames, but i’m not attached to them, nor am i attached to my accounts

I have a couple main usernames that I’ve had for an extremely long time, each with it’s own personal origin, and I use one (or both) if it’s something I would like to be tied to me and the discoverability is positive. For other things, I tend to use something derived from “momo” as it’s a part of one of my major usernames, and I’m often referred to as “momo” because of that, so it keeps some consistency.

Very. This IS my online name. Although it started out as a way to be anonymous online, by now it is darn easy to connect with my real identity.

And its more unique than my real name. Theres enough Tom André 's out there on the web that any variation of it as username is usually taken, but emptyother (or empty_other) is always free. I prefer it over my real name, when online. Easier to recognize in chats.

Also its a overly literal translation of my name from my language to English. Tom = Empty, Andre = Others.

Very much so! There’s this other person who uses the same name online and whenever I sign up for a new service there’s a chance he’s been there first and I have to resort to an alternative. In my head we have a friendly feud about this but I’m not sure he’s noticed yet

Not at all. These days I just use random words when I sign up for new services.

I used to have a ‘consistent’ online identity, but at some point I decided I didn’t want others to be able to make connections between them.

I’m not too keen on chosing names so I’m happy that I could

It’s a fine username but I’m not overly attached to it.

I use different usernames for different services and try not to use the same one twice. I do tend to follow a “theme” (though how they all relate is a secret) with them but that’s about it.

I think that having a “consistent” online identity across different services isn’t very safe but I’m sure that’s coloured by my own personal experiences. 🤷‍♀️

I used to have specific usernames I felt attached to, but those depended on what kind of phase I found myself in. Nowadays it’s hard for me to come up with a username at all, especially since I don’t want to use my real name. But so far I like this username I have now the most.

I’m more attached to it then my real name

I have multiple usernames but each one exists across platforms etc. I try to keep my accounts sandboxed.

Not particularly

Quite attached to this one for now, but have gone by others in the past. probably quite easy to find me IRL, oh well…

I’m pretty attached to my username, sometimes people call me by it and I even have some nicknames originating from it. I use it in only four places, but I definitely feel it has become my default username as of recently.

It's part of my identity. At one point I flipped it, and now a whole load of people in real life call me Liz.

Not at all. I can change if you like.

Been using this online handle for 30 years now, I’d say pretty attached!

Absolutely no attachment.

I used to be attached to my username, it was unique enough to be used everywhere. I used it in the mindset of creating an online presence, so my friends recognize me in other games and such, but then slowly realized it makes you very DOXable and vulnerable in general.

Nowadays I use one username per hobby, except gaming. I want you to be able to find other stuff I created in that specific space, but I don’t want you to find out everything about me.

Using a common login across multiple services is an attack vector for hackers.

Don’t do it.

I like it

My username has pretty much become a nickname even with IRL friends at this point, I don’t think it would have settled as solidly if I kept switching it tbh. I am not too worried about doxxing but that is definitely a concern if you’re using a single username everywhere.

I’d kill to keep it.

I’ve been using it since I was 8 or something so pretty attached.

No, I usually make a different username per website, but they are usually a portmanteau of various characters I like. So several names I use are fairly similar.

You can take it from my cold, slippery hands.