I have a couple of different ones that say different things about me, and I do think about which one to use for different situations. One’s my all-purpose username, Scriveling: short for “scribbling drivel,” which seemed appropriate for the message boards where I first used it, but is too frivolous for a lot of occasions. If I want to present a more serious image I use my gmail, which is just my name.

i use “goddess” on a lot of things, and actually picked it up after reading a piece you wrote probably in late 2003, elsa. you were talking about why people choose negative passwords and usernames when they type this stuff in over and over? and i thought, “well, yeah, that makes sense to me.” what message to i want to convey to my subconcious/the world at large multiple times a day?

i didn’t exactly feel like a goddess, but decided to go with the bravado and use it anyway, and start using more postive names and passwords. i’d just started working on my weight and needed an ego boost. “goddess” stuck.

i’ve since used it many places and am therefore usually known as goddess or goddess_dix online. i grew into it, i guess. ha!

At the beginning of my Pluto transit to my Sun, I had email that was hidden behind a hidden version of my son’s name. That was back in the day when I wasn’t sure I wanted people to know who I was, but even then I’m not sure I knew who I was anymore. Now, I have a couple of emails and they are all my name. Guess I’m out there now, whether I want to be or not. I’ve thought about starting to blog again, but my old name doesn’t fit anymore, and there are just too many Heathers in the world (though at 45 I’m one of the originals) to be just that. Something to ponder.

I have two main email names I’ve used since I first encountered the internet. One is usually my real name or combination therof (first name last initial @ gmail is my main main one, though I also have first_last @ hotmail) and, the other is a combination of character names for a writing site that I frequented for about seven years.

Which is also where Foxxy comes from actually, unless you want to go way way back and then, Foxxfire was my very first internet handle (my brother came up with it, then bungled the original pw so Foxfire got an extra x) and that was back in ’92.

It strikes me now as kinda funny that my email names haven’t changed in 16 years (amost everything else has) . . And my only fixed planet is Uranus (rules internet) in the 11th (social groups) hahahahhaha.

I also notice if someone’s email name is written in all lower case letters, and find it interesting because I don’t understand why they don’t capitalize the first letters. e.g. john smith rather than John Smith. What are they trying to convey there?

One is my firstname and last name – that’s my gmail, which I use for most things.

The other two – one is the nickname I’ve had since I was 18 or 19 (craftygirl) and the other I keep just for gaming friends, and it’s the first name of my character.

Btw, in graphology if you sign your name legibly then that means you are honest.. guess the same thing aplies with email addresses.

If you can’t read someone’s signature, watch out!

I’m glad I’m not the only one around here with split email-personalities. Katastrophe is my favourite one, suppose it’s very Capricorn but to me, it’s mostly just funny. Also use my name, first and last, for more professional situations, and I have another (amillionstars) which makes me feel inspired and ethereal

Um. I think my comment got caught in the gutter.

I only use my name in my work e-mail address which I think is highly appropriate. I spent a lot of time thinking up my main e-mail address though because I think that just using your name is boring and uncreative.

i have a bunch. the one i use for elsa comments is my web accounts, all-purpose junk email filter. i was feeling incredibly disgusted with the universe at the time i registered it, so it might as well be short for “i hate everything”. saturn was square my mars at the time. i use it, but everything gets filtered to my actual email addy, which most people don’t know.

most of my email addresses have been combinations of words, usually competing or foreign concepts mashed together somehow. i like that. i have libra and gemini. if i have to send mail in a professional manner outside of internet-world, i use my actual name.

that i’m a wyrd-o ;P

astrosage – I like geeky and cool because I am neither.

I used to think not typing in all lower case letters when chatting or emailing was somehow pompous. Having a lower case email address is almost universal and has to do with convenience and internet culture. Email names or screennames do convey a lot about a person and relate to various cultural forms/stereotypes, facebook etiquette comes to mind (succinct irony, not overkill, the idea that you have a fun life outside of facebook, nonchalance, not overkill minimalism…). I remember that picking an AIM screenname was a huge deal for me, it’s the name you represent to the world. I always went for non-sequiturs, food jokes, and respected cleverness. My email is a non-sequitur of sorts that has become the name I have grown into. It relates to a Richard Brautigan poetry book I first saw in my high school library. I have a lot of ideas about this. Names, particularly internet names, allow you to present a personality to the world on which you are harshly judged. At least I judge you.

Hmmm this is very interesting… my email is my nickname (basically my name shortened)

However when posting on sites like here I use the pseudonymn Skye – its simple and I always liked the name. I would like to use my own nickname but being Scorpio I dont like being tracked so I use a pseudonymn name.

One of my email addresses describes the last position I had when I had an actual job. The address was intended to be used for HotJobs.com but quickly got overrun.

The other is for my freelance site. My name plus the domain.

I guess I’m career oriented. I do have a junk email, which is a goofy word that we used to use in fourth grade, but there’s nothing in there but junk mail these days.