Whether it be AIM, multiple e-mail addresses, Webkinz, or Neopetz, I had 1001 terrible, unique, usernames for every account, and through some further investigation I have found that I am not the only one who did this. These are some of the highlights:
1. Yahoo! Mail #1: Gigglebunny764
Honestly I don’t even know where this name came from, but my 10-year-old self thought that it sounded cute and flirty. This was never necessary though because I never ended up sending any cute OR flirty emails because my mom monitored my account.
2. Yahoo! Mail #2: ryansheckler1270
This had a lot of thought put into it because a) I loved Ryan Sheckler, even though I knew literally nothing about skateboarding (my mom literally through away a skateboard I bought in lieu of him because she knew that I would break my neck on it) and b) 1270 was the last four digits of my favorite pizza place’s phone number. Yes I made an e-mail address about a boy and pizza. Nothing has changed.
3. AIM: LikeKARules
Now, to the naked eye this probably seems stupid, but if you delve deeper into the meaning behind this username, you will see that it is, indeed, stupid. But let’s break it down anyway, shall we? Starting with “Like” now, I used this because this was the period of my life where I used the word “like” in every sentence about 400x, so obviously it was necessary for me to include it in my username. Next is KAR, my name is Karly, nobody except for my very best friend, calls me Kar…ever. But the username would not have been the same if I had not shortened it to Kar because the next part of the name is “rules”. You probably cannot tell that the next word is rules because it blends in with “kar”, which is what I was shooting for. So ultimately my username meant, “Like Kar(ly) Rules”, said in my mind with a cliché valley-girl accent.
4. MySpace: K-$ B-$
Okay so, you may be thinking, “MySpace didn’t have usernames”, and yes, you would be right, but I decided to include this anyway because I thought it was appropriate. Essentially what had happened was that my mom and dad said that I could absolutely not have a MySpace. So what that had meant to me was that I totally could have a MySpace as long as they didn’t find out…so I made an alias: K-$ B-$. This was to be read as “K-money B-money” and it was a foolproof plan that both made me look really cool like a rapper, and also keep my parents from finding my MySpace if they ever decided to check (which they eventually did, by accidently clicking on the link in my browser history to K-$ B-$’s MySpa
