Pseudonyms

It's always been hard for me to speak about myself. I think part of it is because I don't want people judging me, but I'm not sure. All I know is it's always been tough to open-up. But when your name isn't there, it becomes much easier. It's quite liberating to use a pseudonym actually. You can write without fearing people coming back to you. It removes constraints. It removes the notion of who you are to only focus on what you say. Why did we lose pseudonyms on the web?