Registration…
So I made my way to the site, bumping threw Google for a correct
url. (funny I misspelled twitter my first try) and noticed on the very first
line for the registration a request for a name, specifically first and last. Unlike
most from my generation I entered the net in the days where giving out your
real name was considered as bad as inviting a rapist in to your house. Because of
this my first instinct was “F**K no I’m not giving you that” and promptly
closed the tab. However because this is a mandatory thing I quickly found myself
back on the account registration page and staring down the name requirement. This
time I defaulted to my primary false identity, which will not be named, and
filled out the forum only to be greeted with a “this username is already taken!”
message when I entered in what once was my unique gamer handle.
I find it quite depressing the number of people that are now
running about the net using my screen name, thanks to them I’ve had to use generalizations
for my Minecraft account, several other services, and now possibly twitter. The
worst part of all, the handle that I wanted was consumed by an account that has
been in active for 3 years… If you can’t tell, I’m not huge on people, especially
ones who take what was once my unique usernames. I had an identity behind them,
if you saw that name, you knew who to expect. Now it could be any number of
bosos on the net.
Ultimately after an elongated period of fiddling with what
handles it did permit and how it registered them (caps, no caps) I originally decided
to just play it easy and go with my 2nd most prominent gamer tag (3rd
most used username) Aostai. Officially that name has a ser. section, Iwef,
however I have been fazing it out as it is both illogical and unnecessary. However
I generally shy away from using this one due to its irregularity between spelling
and pronunciation due to its origin in Star Wars. (a-stoya) after much thought
regarding this I decided to go with the surname of my primary gamer tag Pasow
Atheba.
The decision to finally move to something I’ve never used before
is twofold. I’ve been looking for a while now for a new online identity as my old
ones have gained some unnecessary stigmas while still giving some homage to my
past. Atheba has sense its creation become the dominant last name for all new
characters I’ve made in games and is one of the more phonetically spelled of
them. I really wish I knew where I was going with building an identity, I’m not
huge on letting everyone know the one given to me, and I’m not huge on the ones I’ve used thought
my life. I was fine with just rolling with old ones till they started vanishing
from availability.
After registration…
Why the hell do I have to follow 5 people the moment I make
the account?
*enter minor amounts of rage*
Decided to see if I could just get back to regular twitter
by loading another page and surly enough I was back to a normal service. What I’ve
been questioning the entire time I’ve made this account was what was available to
change after creation. I was quite paranoid that I would be locked in to everything
once creating the account; however to my delight I can change everything, the
Name, the username/handle. While I was there I also uploaded one of the avatars
I’ve been using lately around the net. My next step was to disable 90% of its
social functions, took out nearly all of its email notifications, shut down its
privacy violation system of tailoring twitter based on sites I visit (hoping it
turns off the cookie tracking) and forced on a few features that really should
be on by default.
Lastly before posting this blog entry, I tweeted that the account
had been created, a little tradition of every account I’ve ever made.
@Athebaart
@Athebaart
Couldn't log on to blogspot Sunday, so here is my blurb. I find it to be interesting that you have so much to say about making the twitter account. I enjoy your reactions and thoughts. It's crazy knowing that so many people use twitter and how people do think of the same name, making it difficult for others. Overall, I say I still don't understand the point of the hash tag (I think that is what it is called), unless everyone knows about it.
ReplyDeleteone thing that i enjoy imagining is if the real world ran on the same unique name system as most websites too. i would suspect people's names would quickly start to look like Xbox Live gamer tags. all distorted and misspelled just to get something that isn't taken.
Delete#tag is simply a universal marker for usage. they are handy as a way to quickly find similar things (such as #starwars) however their usage is personally a little pointless and at times confusing. #ihavenoideawhatwentwrong