The Net Generation Cartoon - Evolution of the Internet Username
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The Internet username started out with lots of people using nicknames and other imaginative words. People were really scared to share personal information on the Internet then.
Then with the proliferation of more web services and a lot more of people on the Intenet, finding a username of your choice became difficult. So people started adding their birth year or the year of opening their email/webs service account at the end of their username.
But since 2006, with the advent of social networking sites like Orkut and now Facebook, the younger generation of users have got no fears or qualms about using their real identities. Some even go as far as posting their phone numbers and home addresses with photos of everyone of their family and friends. Risky? Yes….but this seems to be how a very open technology like the World Wide Web/Internet is fostering a more open society.
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