• @[email protected]
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      88 months ago

      If I need to fudge info, I tend to put it into a password database’s “notes” field for easier note-keeping, FWIW.

      Not a full-on identity, but bits of info like stated name, address, etc.

    • @[email protected]
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      88 months ago

      Lol wtf is the point of linkedin specifically if you don’t join with your real info?

      You just browsing people’s profiles? Friend requesting your other aliases?

    • @[email protected]
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      58 months ago

      Mine are usually just remixes of my ancestors, for example ill just combine two random ancestors names and where one of them was from. Why yes random website I am Shadrak McNulty born in Littlerock Arkansas.

    • TAG
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      38 months ago

      LinkedIn is one of the few sites where I use my real name. It is for connecting with past and future coworkers, so they get my real identity.

      • QuantumBamboo
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        18 months ago

        Why not present ones? And how do you know who you’ll work with in the future?

        • TAG
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          18 months ago

          Right, I forgot that LinkedIn calls contacts “connection”, doesn’t it? I meant it in the sense of messaging them.

          I have it for talking to past coworkers (in case I need a reference or want to discuss equity or something) and for talking to recruiters when I am looking for a job. My past two jobs I heard about via LinkedIn messages.

          • QuantumBamboo
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            18 months ago

            I was being dumbly pendantic. Thank you for indulging me though!

    • @[email protected]
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      28 months ago

      I guess that’s one strategy but that’s too much work for me. I just pay for unique email forwarding addresses to my main email and use fakenamegenerator.com for filling out fake PII. Also a password manager is key