AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Teens may want to leave witty screen names behind.
Byline: Nicole Sweeny
Julia Fawcett's first online alter ego was "Venuschick." Then the Racine, Wis., teenager decided she needed a change and adopted "Juliaiscoolia" as her e-mail moniker.
"I chose `Juliaiscoolia' because one of my friends said that one day as a silly rhyming thing," said Fawcett, a senior at Horlick High School in Racine. "It was simple. A lot of people have strange names with numbers and stuff, but this was easier to remember."
Teenagers often strive for an e-mail persona with punch, something that's simple but sassy, creative but not cloying.
But what seems like a cool e-mail address when you're 16 can make you shrink with embarrassment a few years later. And those witty screen names are gaining a wider audience than ever before, as more students apply to colleges online and use e-mail to correspond with everyone from college admissions counselors to ...
- What his e-mail address means: his cyber signature can reveal whether he's...
- Magazine article from: Cosmopolitan Beland, Nicole July 1, 2002 700+ words
* Josh_Smith@email.com: You're in luck. Self-confident, professional guys with nothing to hide choose this full-name, no-nonsense option. * Josh_Daniel@email.com: If he uses both his first and middle names, family ties are tops. He values his personal bonds and is proud to make them public. *
- AOL employee charged for stealing screen names.(Up front: news, trends &...
- Magazine article from: Information Management Journal Swartz, Nikki September 1, 2004 700+ words
...filed suit in March against another spammer. A source told the Internet provider that one of its employees was stealing screen names from the company and selling them. According to prosecutors, Smathers was not authorized to access AOL's customer database...
- Mean girls never grow up: they just get new screen names. That's where the...
- Magazine article from: Curve Brownworth, Victoria A. May 1, 2008 700+ words
...years--some political, some queer. I discovered in my cyber life that mean girls never grow up--they just get new screen names. One of the problems I had at school was that I couldn't mislead or conceal. I was only ever good at being myself. I...
- A former America Online software engineer recently pleaded guilty to stealing...
- Magazine article from: Risk Management April 1, 2005 700+ words
A former America Online software engineer recently pleaded guilty to stealing 92 million AOL screen names and e-mail addresses and selling them to spammers. Jason Smathers made $28,000 by selling the list to a promoter of an offshore...
- U.S. to screen names at ports: Workers at Baltimore and other facilities to be...
- Newspaper article from: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD) April 26, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Meredith Cohn Apr. 26--The Department of Homeland Security will begin checking the names of about 400,000 longshoremen and other employees of port facilities against federal terrorist watch lists, the agency announced yesterday, six weeks after an Arab company's thwarted efforts to do work
- Lawsuits Strip Away Anonymity of Online Pseudonyms, Screen Names.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 24, 2001 700+ words
By Doug Bedell, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 24--Until the legal papers began arriving on his Portland, Ore., doorstep, Les French thought his identity was safe. Mr. French had been using the pseudonym "Whadayaknow" in posting derogatory comments about an
- All claimants must be screened under federal law.(employers face fines and...
- Magazine article from: Business Insurance Wojcik, Joanne December 23, 2002 700+ words
Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK Many insurers and self-insured employers are unaware that they face potential fines and civil penalties for failing to screen the names of claimants against government lists of potential terrorists. Although the property/casualty industry was exempted from the USA PATRIOT Act
- IM Key Part of Changing Technology at Stifel Nicolaus.
- Magazine article from: Securities Industry News October 13, 2003 700+ words
...policy about what kind of screen names your employees can choose...policy in place about screen names. When we were getting...just asked what their screen names were and linked it up to their e-mail address names. And that links...
