I've stopped using my real name. My last name has an apostraphe, and at this point I'm just sick of websites rejecting it and then forcing me to refill in all of my information.
So, now I drop the apostraphe.
In high school my school ID was completely broken. It printed <first half of last name> <first letter of last name> <middle name> <first name>.
They ended up putting a quotation mark instead of the apostraphe - somehow the machine handled that fine. That was the workaround.
Hotel wifi systems tend to break if they ask for a last name to connect. Again, training me to reserve the hotel under a 'fake' last name.
I actually notice it every time I write my last name. I'm like "is this a system that will break" and now I'm inclined to just never use the "real" spelling because then I'll get a mismatch later on.
This is something I've really noticed over the last decade. The older I get, and the more systems become a part of my life, the more systems I have to give a fake name. Paper records will show my true name, but I wonder if at this point, given digital records, what it would appear to be.
So, now I drop the apostraphe.
In high school my school ID was completely broken. It printed <first half of last name> <first letter of last name> <middle name> <first name>.
They ended up putting a quotation mark instead of the apostraphe - somehow the machine handled that fine. That was the workaround.
Hotel wifi systems tend to break if they ask for a last name to connect. Again, training me to reserve the hotel under a 'fake' last name.
I actually notice it every time I write my last name. I'm like "is this a system that will break" and now I'm inclined to just never use the "real" spelling because then I'll get a mismatch later on.
This is something I've really noticed over the last decade. The older I get, and the more systems become a part of my life, the more systems I have to give a fake name. Paper records will show my true name, but I wonder if at this point, given digital records, what it would appear to be.