The Web hides the truth about its users, but sometimes you can find out more when communicating with such strange people.

There are very many reasons why you hide your real name in the Web, but most popular among them are:

1. To choose a girlfriend when visiting dating sites.
   Userpic is nothing but a cool and profound nick can make a girl realize you’re a weird man. And vice versa, you can attract a cool boyfriend, of course, if you’re a girl
2. To donate money not to be laughed by coworkers, family and neighbors.
   Especially, if you give the money to SAVE BRITNEY SPEARS Fund.
3. To join some Scientology sect.
   But you must create a true nick to make the sect realize it needs you. And maybe some day you will be a head with such a nickname among those to worship kitchen pots and brand glamorous clothes.
4. To download an adult content and visit adult sites.
   Yeah, if you have a nick like Cool_Mustang and you’re only 19 it will persuade better than the nick like John Robinson, won’t it?
5. To register on a site the RIAA’s been trying to shut for the whole ten years.
   Such sites always give a good possibility to download music for free or almost for free.
6. You did monkey business and now you have to keep out of security service sight.
   No comments. Would you like to comment on it?
7. Feeling extra cool.
   By hiding the info about yourself you can feel cool. Better than Brad Pitt even if you use an avatar with his pic.
8. You have a wife and two children.
   But every night she has a terrible headache and you have nothing to do but to get an unreal nick and play networking games like World of Warcraft, Counter-Strike and others.
9. You have a bad memory.
   That’s why you have to create a new account every time you visit your blog, site and…well, maybe, the mass popularity of Facebook and MySpace is the result of your actions? Because the services have a lot of usernames and unused accounts.
10. To show up your profession.
    Sometimes people use their nicks as if they continue working or being engaged in hobbies. You can easily meet surgeons, shopgirls and, surely, gynecologist.
11. You’re so confused, full of complexes and unsatisfied with your life that you have to hide yourself by using names like Lioness, Bossgirl, Mustang, Jaguar, Lady_ the_ death, SuperTed, undefeatable_warrior etc. No, the best of all will be AAA as it will be first in all icq-lists, messengers, and blogs.
12. Split personality.
13. To find a good work.
    You can easily attract a potential customer by some special nick.
14. To download movies from illegal sites.
    And maybe sometimes give them away to MPAA.
15. To say what you feel about bosses.
    Imagine the situation. The chief made nothing of you and you must tell someone about this. You change your info as well as your nick, go to a right site and swear at your boss, his secretary and the whole corporation of yours. The best thing is that after such an incident nobody will accuse you of doing ihis but some fired ex-coworker or a business competitor.. Moreover, the whole company starts working better because it will know the business competitors have created some plan to ruin it.
16. To register on p2p sites and within torrent networks.
    Oh, how boring is to register over and over again
17. You’re bored and have decided to change your nick, info and get a lot of fun and adventures.
18. To pull somebody’s leg or just have revenge on somebody.
    Once upon a time… people used to poison a neighbor’s dog but now you can get a cool nick and post a pic of your neighbor… having sunbathe nude in his garden on some special site. And the users will have a lot of fun.
19. To show your wife up in her true colors.
    You can just have a different type of messenger, a new name and a new nick. Don’t forget to save the history and you don’t have to worry about money you owe to your second half after divorce.
20. Your nick is just the reason for shocking the public.
    Some nicks like I_SAW_UFO can attract many friends interested in aliens and different civilizations.
21. Well, I just liked the word.
    It has some special sense and is too hard to understand. Let people ask me what it means.
22. I dunno.
23. You gave up drinking, smoking, taking drugs and that was the reason for changing the nick.
24. To send a card to your ex-girlfriend.
    Or, probably, just to send a gift to someone
25. To register on gay forums in purpose not to be identified by anyone.
26. Not to be laughed by anyone if you don’t know a problem solving.
    You’re a true expert and everybody appreciates your opinion. But one day some stupid and simple things came to your head and you don’t know the right answer. The other used to ask you but you cannot do the same, as you’re professional. You can register as a “Johnny come lately” and ask what you need. After this, you can visit the same forum with your real name and make fun of the freshman.
27. You took a universal nick.
    You can register in any forum, network or site. And you know there’s no such a nickname like yours.
28. I was in a great hurry and haven’t time to register that’s why I took this nick.
    I have many problems to explain everyone why I’m xtc234_098.
29. You wanted to lose your virginity.
    You got a different type of nick and registered on virgins’ site. You must be very glad now!
30. You’re a security agent searching the guy mentioned above *)
31. You take female names and nicks to register on different sites when you’re need help.
    Your goal is to get help and advice. The girls get it faster, it’s the fact. The fooled men want some flirt or show themselves up and, therefore, help “the girls” absolutely for free.
32. You register with some special nick as an expert and began throw dirt at your peers and their goods.
    The goal is obvious – your goods are in great demand now.

And, surely,

33. You want your story to hit the DIGG frontpage . You create as many accounts as possible and vote for the story using your wide range of nicks.

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