HERE’S THE ANSWER

Gleaned from this thread as of 8/18 2:18PM

At least I think this is the answer. Or answers.

  1. Because when you take the IRL identity stuff out of the process it makes communication smoother.

  2. Tradition. Yes, we do it this way because it’s the way we’ve been doing it for a long time. Since the birth of Facebook or whatever.

  3. So crazy people won’t track me down. Which seems crazy. But that’s just the kind half-acknowledged half-conscious consensual fantasy that people seem to buy into. So maybe it’s true.

  • Apepollo11@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There’s also the risk of identity theft, people contacting your place of work, and other intrusions into your life.

    • froghorse@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      That’s the “crazy people tracking you down” reason.

      There’s gotta be a better reason.

      One I saw here is “it make our communication smoother when you take all the IRL identity stuff out of the equation” (to paraphrase).