Connecting online and IRL identities

[Placid Dingo]

I'm the only 'me' on the internet. And I have an email that is my name. And there was email sent from that address by idiot freinds that were fucking with stormfront.

So now a search of my name (thankfully now, three pages in...) makes me look like a white suppremicist. Which is not fun. But that said, I haven't ever had issue with that, even when I was running for a political position.

I own two sites; one is my name, the other is placiddingo.com, and I know that somewhere that'll connect my names. But also, I want to release my writing under my own name, and am not sure how that will go. So i've done the same thoughts.

Cram, to be honest, I think it's a good idea, and genuinely suspect you're one of THE prominent Discordians of today. I think in the bigger picture, the real issue you're facing it beyond the name.

[hooplala]

This is one of the times where I'm glad to have a fairly common name.

Carol Channing is a popular name?!  I thought it was just the two of you?

[Faust]

but maybe I'm way overthinking this -- tons of people have connected their IRL identities to their shady online personalities and haven't gotten bitten in the ass

you are under thinking it, I act under the assumption that I am going to be datamined by potential employers so I make it very easy to find my facebook and a few other sites where I make myself appear like a well adjusted model candidate. I have a separate twitter account and stuff specifically for the unsavoury or meanspirited shit I do online.

[Iason Ouabache]

This is one of the times where I'm glad to have a fairly common name.

Carol Channing is a popular name?!  I thought it was just the two of you?

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I think the fact that you're worried enough to ask about it is a sign that you shouldn't do it.

Google and other search engine people continually have their nose to the grindstone, so it's probably going to become easier and easier to find people on the web.

I wouldn't give employers the option to find any information about me on the web since you never can be sure what kind of closeted religious nutjob one of your bosses may be.

So you won't know how much you've pissed them off if they do datamine you.

And if they fire you because they have political/religious blinders on, they'll be careful to say it's because of something they can't get in legal trouble for, like poor work performance or some other hard to disprove trumped up bullshit.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It's kind of like coming out as gay. Yes, there could be future repercussions with narrow-minded employers, but on the other hand it might make you a more obviously better fit with employers you would enjoy working for more anyway. Dunno. Double-edged sword and all that.

I have never sought a career in the corporate world so my perspective is different; I have chosen a life a little closer to the lunatic fringe, and the longer I live here the less concerned about it overlapping with my professional life.

[Richter]

Surprisingly relevant to this, a buddy just lent me his collections of the Marvel's "Civil War" story arc, about superheroes "Coming out" about their identities,  if they should be required to, and the repercussions. 

I can't see ever officially or totally linking my online stuff to IRL.  I'm pretty close under the "Richter" persona, but I use pen names and minimal detail for just about anything else.

[the last yatto]

good idea, it is bat country after all.