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It's extremely surprising to me that younger non-technical people just type in their full name (properly cased first and last name with a space in between) for a technical username in account registration or login forms. I've seen that happening several times in the past few years. The field name is "Benutzername" in German, literally "username". Even adding a placeholder text to signal that they could simply use their nickname in lowercase did not change anything at all. Well, one person used at least an e-mail address.
This wasn't the case six, seven years ago, everybody had some "real" username. Even non-techies. It looks like some "common knowledge" is getting lost. Strange. Very weird. It trips me every time I see it.
Have you experienced something similar?
@lyse I had no idea. However, I think we're losing our sense of anonymity. I even started using my real name!
@lyse I had no idea. However, I think we're losing our sense of anonymity. I even started using my real name!
@lyse I'm in the banking industry, so don't see this muchđ¤Ł
@lyse I guess the thing is that usernames are no longer needed for many popular things, like WhatsApp. âJust install the appâ, done. When I ran my Matrix server for our family, this was the first thing that people were bummed out about: âOh, this needs a username and a password? Why doesnât it just work? Thatâs annoying.â
People are less and less exposed to âlow-levelâ details like this. There was also this story in 2021 about the concept of a âfileâ: https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z
@lyse I guess the thing is that usernames are no longer needed for many popular things, like WhatsApp. âJust install the appâ, done. When I ran my Matrix server for our family, this was the first thing that people were bummed out about: âOh, this needs a username and a password? Why doesnât it just work? Thatâs annoying.â
People are less and less exposed to âlow-levelâ details like this. There was also this story in 2021 about the concept of a âfileâ: https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z
@andros You use your real name as login name, too?
@prologic I see this with the scouts. Luckily, not at work. But at work, I'm surrounded by techies.
@movq Oh my goodness! I'm so glad that I don't have to deal with that in my family. But yeah, I guess you're onto something with your theory. This article is also quite horrific. O_o