My extraction of it simply is that people who are active behind their fake user names and identities must have a preference for the imaginary names vs their real ones because they're still nursing the 90's cloak of anonymity that seems to be the draw of the internet for a lot of people when it comes to their social life supplements.
Just contrasting the people here or anywhere who say they refuse to use facebook because it scares them (paraphased of course)
"omg contact with people I dont know"
"omg my privacy"
or the myriad of other meme reasons in this thread which are based in the "i wish to remain anonymous, yet I choose to remain active here behind my self chosen username, revealing only what I choose to reveal" school of thought
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