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So.
Ever since my first email account, I have enjoyed going by a name I chose on the internet. I love the freedom of it, the fact that all I really need to do to give myself a new identity is create a new name and attach it to whatever I want. I celebrated this when I started an email correspondence with a girl named Annie Quinn, by signing every email to her with a different nickname. Some of them I kept, in particular the original: Ferny the Frond Lady, usually shortened to Ferny.
Some of those old names are defunct and Annie is dead. But I keep a few names, and keep the tradition alive by creating new accounts on one service or another, at random, for fun. I have quite a few ghost accounts by now, and others that I never expected to use becoming, well, useful. Like the twitter account that I use to talk to the people who make Doctor Who. That was unexpected, especially that I started getting called Silly Pants because of it. (no, that's not the name of the account)
The name MayaMaia was a perversity of a growing online world. I was trying to find some variant of Maria on that newfangled AIM thing which didn't contain numbers. After much frustration, I decided to take two variants of a name I had always loved, Maia, which I figured was close enough. But I never quite attached to it and it is beginning to get recognizable by people I don't want to find me easily online: my family, for instance. Or professional contacts. I also don't want people to be able to find out my real name from certain sites, for good measure.
So I've made myself a new email and a new youtube account with the same name as that useful twitter, so I can at least post videos without my family finding them. I may at some point rename this lj account too, so my oh-so-intelligent family can't just google mayamaia (which some of them have encountered one way or another) and find my journal. Just a heads-up to you all.
Ever since my first email account, I have enjoyed going by a name I chose on the internet. I love the freedom of it, the fact that all I really need to do to give myself a new identity is create a new name and attach it to whatever I want. I celebrated this when I started an email correspondence with a girl named Annie Quinn, by signing every email to her with a different nickname. Some of them I kept, in particular the original: Ferny the Frond Lady, usually shortened to Ferny.
Some of those old names are defunct and Annie is dead. But I keep a few names, and keep the tradition alive by creating new accounts on one service or another, at random, for fun. I have quite a few ghost accounts by now, and others that I never expected to use becoming, well, useful. Like the twitter account that I use to talk to the people who make Doctor Who. That was unexpected, especially that I started getting called Silly Pants because of it. (no, that's not the name of the account)
The name MayaMaia was a perversity of a growing online world. I was trying to find some variant of Maria on that newfangled AIM thing which didn't contain numbers. After much frustration, I decided to take two variants of a name I had always loved, Maia, which I figured was close enough. But I never quite attached to it and it is beginning to get recognizable by people I don't want to find me easily online: my family, for instance. Or professional contacts. I also don't want people to be able to find out my real name from certain sites, for good measure.
So I've made myself a new email and a new youtube account with the same name as that useful twitter, so I can at least post videos without my family finding them. I may at some point rename this lj account too, so my oh-so-intelligent family can't just google mayamaia (which some of them have encountered one way or another) and find my journal. Just a heads-up to you all.
