PSA

[conuly]

There's a mutating virus going around that causes people to wantonly change their usernames. If you feel any of the following symptoms, please disconnect your computer until it goes away:

1. A desire to change your username
2. A willingness to spend $15 US on a username change
3. A general idea that your username should match a. your real name b. your email or c. your latest fandom

This virus is very dangerous and may disturb casual viewers of your journal. Please, if you feel you are infected, do not succumb!

Comments

[leora.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... change my username... hmm...

[conuly]

*grabs the squirrel*

Come back here, or the squirrel gets it! I MEAN IT!

[allassein.livejournal.com]

I win. My username's already the same as my email address. The same as my AIM nick and IRC handle too. *hugs his username*

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

mine too.

every lakidaa everywhere is me.

...unless there is an Electric Iron Golem. Than that is me, and the lakidaa has a 20% chance of being an impostor.

why anyone would imposter me? no clue.

[strangelette.livejournal.com]

I swear it was purely for privacy reasons and it was months ago :)

Still, I did feel rather silly paying $15 for it.

[divabat.livejournal.com]

Someone bought the token for me, does that count?

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of changing mine to kimbrone, actually...

[panda-cookie.livejournal.com]

Don't worry; when that virus rears it's ugly head, I usually fight back with a great program; Ignoring the Craving, it's called. It really works, too!

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

Good thing I'm immune to that virus. xD *hugs my username*

[malantha.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking of it. But it's really confusing for me when other people do it so I've been putting it off. Plus, it's $15. hehe

[rachelkachel]

If it didn't cost money, I'd do it - as soon as "oogabooga" got actually deleted. I'm starting to use this name more and more places and I rather like it, though, so maybe I wouldn't.

[ursamajor]

see, what all those silly renamers should've done was just get here early enough to get their desired username in the first place! that's what i did for ursamajor, and, well, seeing as i've had the ursamajor lj for almost five years now, and that was my default webmail login and irc nick for four years before that, i don't think it's going anywhere. :)

[ex-chaos-by-699.livejournal.com]

My username is so cool, I'd never want to change it. *grin*

[thette.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about me; I'm the only one with this name.

Except, of course, the Brazilian girl who spelled her nickname wrong.

Brazilign girls

[pne.livejournal.com]

Talking of Brazilian girls, I occasionally get confused that Cassia is cuddled, and type cassia -- who is some Brazilian girl.

[pne.livejournal.com]

I like my username a lot. I'm glad it was free on LiveJournal.

I like having "pne" as my username everywhere and get mildly annoyed at places that make you have at least six characters in your username or something. (I usually end up picking something like "pnewton", then forgetting that I had to use a different-than-usual username there.)

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

Both the short and full (minus the "é" proper) nicknames of mine that I've had for YEARS are taken...by me...and not going anywhere unless something very scary and dramatic happens.

[feasel.livejournal.com]

....You're the second person on my flist who has complained about this. I ought to feel bad, but I like my new username too much. XD

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

*dances around*

Maladaptive, maladaptive is me, oooooh, the maladaptive Sam!

It's my favorite word.

[the-lady-aurora.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of irritated by mine. After I'd had it for a while, I came up with a much better name that I use elsewhere. I'm not prepared to spend actual cash changing it though.

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

I want to change my username, but only because my current one doesn't really suit me....

[leora.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... change my username... hmm...

[conuly]

*grabs the squirrel*

Come back here, or the squirrel gets it! I MEAN IT!

[allassein.livejournal.com]

I win. My username's already the same as my email address. The same as my AIM nick and IRC handle too. *hugs his username*

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

mine too.

every lakidaa everywhere is me.

...unless there is an Electric Iron Golem. Than that is me, and the lakidaa has a 20% chance of being an impostor.

why anyone would imposter me? no clue.

[strangelette.livejournal.com]

I swear it was purely for privacy reasons and it was months ago :)

Still, I did feel rather silly paying $15 for it.

[divabat.livejournal.com]

Someone bought the token for me, does that count?

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of changing mine to kimbrone, actually...

[panda-cookie.livejournal.com]

Don't worry; when that virus rears it's ugly head, I usually fight back with a great program; Ignoring the Craving, it's called. It really works, too!

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

Good thing I'm immune to that virus. xD *hugs my username*