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VPNs as soon as they can tap a screen. Raise them with online pseudonyms they change annually. They don't learn their actual PII until they're at least 10. Can't give it out to strangers if you don't know it yourself!
Yet people would call me an insecure creepy troll if I said I have dozens of different nicknames on the same general spaces.
What would compel you to announce the multitude of screen names you've used over the years? Never practice necromancy. A dead name stays dead; it is never to be referred to by the living.
I dunno, maybe because some of them are still used in other places, or for other purposes =\
It's unfortunately not quite dead - the Internet is scraped and not anonymous, but pseudonymous, and a bearer of a pseudonym can usually be discovered. If someone really wants it, of course.
But that's a good thought, maybe it's time for a few new names.