It's an interesting dilemma. I don't think I've crafted different personas online and offline, and I've probably left enough clues here and there that a TFPer might be able to track me down if they really felt like it; that doesn't particularly bother me. But a direct and transparent link between the real and the virtual would disorient me a little. The separateness of this online life is something I have taken for granted, even if I can't logically justify it (i.e. there's nothing in here that I would particularly want to keep from people I know well in real life, and vice versa). It's just a gut reaction against the casual mixing of the two.
Even though they have nearly-identical personalities, I've thought of hiredgun and real-hiredgun as two separate
persons for so long that its bizarre to imagine merging them. I can't really explain it beyond that. Maybe a psychologist in here can figure out why I feel this way
.