If you write an interesting pseudonymous blog, people will be curious about who you really are. Although they wish you no harm, many will treat finding your secret identity like a fun puzzle to solve. If they meet someone you work with, they won't be able to stop themselves from saying something like, "do you work with a curly-haired woman who went to Queens and recently adopted a schnoodle puppy?"
The following tips will help you to delay discovery:
- Create your blog with an email address that looks like yourpseudonym@gmail.com. Use only this address for anything connected to your blog.
- Lie about details that identify you or the people you write about. Make a list so you're consistent. Change hair colour, home towns, neigbourhoods, work places, birth day, month and year.
- This means you cannot say what astrological sign you are. It will be okay. People will still understand that you have a complicated personality without knowing that you are a Scorpio with Taurus rising.
- If you have a hobby or career that you have to write about, find some way to throw us off track. If you play the dobro, tell us you play the banjo.
- Do not reveal how you placed in a specific competition.
- Lie about where you go to yoga.
- Lie about where you go for coffee.
- Do not reveal your usual spot.
- Do not use the same artistic style in drawings on your pseudonym blog that you use on your real name blog.
- Don't link to your friends' sites unless they are also using pseudonyms and following these guidelines.
- Don't comment on your friends' sites under your pseudonym.
- Moderate your comments and do not approve any that reveal personal details about yourself that you have not already revealed.
