After I started using the Internet almost 20 years ago, people were strongly advised not to use their real names online for security reasons. What happened to that advice? Now my mom wishes I would use my real name for my address since most people are doing that.

 

I am not sure if this belongs here, but this is a reason not to use my real name: it includes the letter L. Someone used an evil trick on me, replacing the lowercase L with a capital i. So if you have one of those two letters in your address you're really going to have problems here.

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