For most things that I do online, anonymity is not a priority. I don't use hacking skills that I don't have in order to steal money nor do I encourage violence or anything else that carries the potential for major problems if my identity was discovered. It would be nice if my identity was important because if it was I believe it would be for positive reasons, but it's not. It is unique - as far as I know nobody shares my name even without including my middle name or initial. And for some sites that require passwords, such as banking ones, I see no reason whatsoever to hide who I am.
Lack of a good reason isn't always enough to prevent a mistake, and a mistake has been made. I gave myself a user name for my online bank account that I keep forgetting. They have a password reset option which requires the user name and after a few guesses I got an password email sent to me, but when I tried to log in with the new password (email doesn't include user name) I was told that the user name and password didn't match. Did I forget my user name already? Are the capitalization rules different for getting my password reset and the actual log in? I don't know, but I do know that if I get it wrong one or two more times then the account will get locked and I don't want that to happen even though that is really no worse than never trying to log in because of fear of a forgotten user name. I also know that I wouldn't have this problem if I just used my actual name.
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