It's Surreal When Your Name Runs Away From You
by , 05-22-2016 at 01:35 AM (2342 Views)
I’m a little bored and tired and putting off going to bed.
I just googled my name for fun. Haven’t done it in a while. Seems Bluebiird has run away from me. I don’t really mind.
Time was that if I looked for it, it’d usually bring me straight here, since it’s here that I’m most active with the name. Now it’s not even the front page. Like I said. I don’t really mind. It’s kind of surreal. It used to be kind of unique. At least with multiple users in multiple places with the same name it obscures the real me. I rather like anonymity online. Well. As best as I can get. If you’ve ever watched something like CSI Cyber you know that you can never be completely anonymous unless you’re some kind of computer expert, which the average person is not. It’s actually very scary if you think about it.
But back to me.
In fairness it’s not like I own the name. It’s not even like I came up with it. It was a typing mistake on my email address and I thought it was kind of nice. That was at over ten years ago now. I must’ve been maybe fifteen or sixteen. Well, I couldn’t change it by the time I realised so I had to live with it. But still, I found it simple yet quirky.
Most likely others have used the name because of the same thing. Just a mistake that stuck, or they wanted bluebird but that was taken, rather than making it ridiculously complicated by adding a string of numbers or other characters why not just add another letter and make it more unique.
At least I hope that’s how it happened and it’s not that someone saw my name somewhere and thought that’s kind of good I’ll have that.
You’d think I should be flattered by that. At the moment that idea annoys me. Come up with your own damned names.
But like I said. That’s probably not what happened. I consider it highly unlikely. The first two reasons are far more likely.
I just found It kind of spooky.
Bluebiird out.



