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Do you consider your username to be your second name?

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    I can safely say that my username becomes a second name to me. I try to keep the same username wherever I sign up to online, so that I'm recognizable, so I just get used to being called by this name.

    But a lot of people call me this name, or the shortened version of it. (You people make nicknames out of everything.) And I tend to call myself this when talking to myself. (Long-ish story about how I don't like my real name.) So this name is just a part of me now.
     

    Yaliw

    Water/Steel/Fighting Trainer
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    Actually, yes, yes i do.
    Don't ask me where it comes from, or i'd have to kill you.
    IN THE NAME OF ARAWN
     

    Terrain

    |distinction.2009-15|
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    Not much. Yes, I use Terrain in most sites, but people still call me Rick sometimes, and no one knows me as Terrain IRL.

    In terms of preference, the name's Rick. :]
     

    salmence33

    I'm out here
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    on the internet yes
    off no

    mainly because it would be weird to call me sal or salmence in public
    especially since I'm a boy
     

    TwilightBlade

    All dreams are but another reality.
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    Originally, I went by Angel everywhere (however, there are too many "Angel" names taken on forums). Then, TB started to grow on me, even though it's nubby. Both names are better than my real name, so I do prefer being identified by my usernames.
     

    bewbs

    ~Chloe~
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    I consider my username as my chest. I let people call me Chloe or C.Gholy - whatever they want to call me.
     

    GOLD.FTW

    Gold Version = Epic
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    no - i don't consider it to be my second name due to the fact i try to make up a name that sorta fits into the forum or other online website that i would be joining at the time. =)
     

    Haza

    ☆A Life of Pokémon and Beyoncé ☆
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    In a way yes. I love it. I use it for everything.
     
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    The only username I've grown attached to is Patchisou Yutohru. I think the reason for that is because it's as if it is a real name. Considering it my second name... isn't something that I normally do. :(

    I don't think I consider anything, for that matter, my second name.
     

    Skip Class

    previously zappyspiker, but rainbow keeps trying t
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    hell yeaz! It's pretty much lived with me. I've had this username since I was 3 or 5 or something
     

    Taemin

    move.
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    Yes.

    This name.. doesn't even make me think of the Pokemon character anymore. xD; So many people online think that it's my real name. Heck, I bet you I could change my username, and everyone would still call me Drew. I've had it since I joined here, and even before that I used it on a couple of other forums. On most of the Pokemon forums I joined, I keep the SN. It's just easier that way.. the end result is no one calls me by anything else. Except for one or two people on here, who know my RL nickname and call me by it. :x

    Literally.. only two people, that I can think of. xD;
     

    Caelus

    Gone
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    IRL - No, not at all. I prefer for people to call me by my first or last name; once people realize where the word Glion / Gliscor comes from they'll find out that I still like the series. They probably won't, but I'd like to avoid that.

    Online - well, all of my recent names have something to do with Gliscor, so kind of; however, I don't feel like having Gliscor in my names anymore so I feel like letting the name go.
     

    Cid

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    No, I don't, even if people here call me Enishi, Eni or Tux.
    I use Chris IRL, but no one calls me that here.

    No one IRL except my brother and a friend know that Enishi/Enirev is/was my online name.
    No one IRL calls me that, either.
     

    Vrai

    can you feel my heart?
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    Kinda-sorta. I try to keep to the same username for a lot of sites.. and Vrai just kinda keeps popping in here and there. I do like the name a lot, though. :D
     
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