HERE’S THE ANSWER
Gleaned from this thread as of 8/18 2:18PM
At least I think this is the answer. Or answers.
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Because when you take the IRL identity stuff out of the process it makes communication smoother.
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Tradition. Yes, we do it this way because it’s the way we’ve been doing it for a long time. Since the birth of Facebook or whatever.
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So crazy people won’t track me down. Which seems crazy. But that’s just the kind half-acknowledged half-conscious consensual fantasy that people seem to buy into. So maybe it’s true.
To avoid the inflatable neighbor syndrome which is a plague in Facebook and the likes.