how do you come up with a nick or username?
By Theresaaiza
@Theresaaiza (10487)
Australia
December 16, 2008 2:32am CST
a lot of websites require usernames. Some people would reflect their birth year, some their present age, some their favorite color and so many others. How about you How did you come up with your username for mylot?
7 responses
@modstar (9605)
• Philippines
18 Dec 08
My username goes back in the day when i was drawing a star in Photoshop. My drawing, i admit, was too ugly that my friends were teasing me. I saved the file as Modstar. It kind of registered in the minds of my friends that they keep mentioning Modstar in a sarcastic and funny way. I was beginning to get pissed off but just holding back or i could lose some friends lol! So again i used my psychological skill, i used the name Modstar as my username is most of my internet accounts. Since then they took the name Modstar in a positive way. By the way, my friends call me Mod.
@modstar (9605)
• Philippines
15 Jan 09
Ok, now i know! I'll go check you out right now. I don't speak visayan really but i do understand some words and can speak a few. I'm chavacano but we use bajao sometimes. I even it bajao. My mom's so stubborn when it comes to bajao because i told her many times not to put bajao on top of newly cooked rice because it will becomes panis but still, after how many years, there's still bajao on top of it and i give up.
@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
24 Dec 08
hmmm...good strategy. Do you know that my family name is "BAJAO?". If your'e a filipino, beter yet, visayan, it means leftover rice. Or cold rice. So I thought, why not also use it as something funny instead of always getting offended when they tease me? So my username at friendster.com is LEFTOVER. And they started asking why, and then they'd laugh because they'd finally taken the hint.
@Little_Stormy (6883)
• United States
16 Dec 08
Mine was easy to come up with.. this is my Cherokee name, sorta... It is actually White Storm. But my grandmother called me Little Stormy.
@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
17 Dec 08
Oh, really. Well, that is interesting. I'm not from your place so I barely have any idea what Cherokee means. Is it some native American race or something?
@Little_Stormy (6883)
• United States
17 Dec 08
yes
Our little group of people never took up political correctness.. we call ourselves Indians or Cherokees..
@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
18 Dec 08
i wish I knew a lot about Indians and cherokees and stuff. So what does 'not taking up political correctness' mean? Is it like you don't get yourself involved with American politics? So is it like you have a government of your own? Own laws? Own codes?
@shonali (1286)
• India
16 Dec 08
the first thing that comes to my mind are all the nick names i have been given by my friends from my school days till date..... then i check if any of them are available and im mostly lucky cos my nicknames are oh so weird that its not possible for anyone else to have them....
then incase i do get one that i cant use i normally put a number after it .... the number mostly is your vehicle number which is easily remembered......
so thats how i come up with my nick name.....
now the name i have in mylot here.... shonali... that is my actual name.... and fortunately three years ago no one by that name had gotten registered so i think i have a very easy name though it is indian and would be difficult for some foriegners to pronounce .....
@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
16 Dec 08
its good that you can just swing in your name...no hassle.! Thank you
@chandu245 (647)
• India
16 Dec 08
I came with my nickname. It's really nice to hear my name to my parents to my friends as well as to me so i came from my nick name. Every body is having their own choice. How about u friend????
@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
17 Dec 08
oh, again, that's good and hassle-free. You don't have to memorize because well it's your own name. Thanks for that
@sanjana_aslam (4187)
• Malaysia
16 Dec 08
hi Theresa
I liked this name ... there was a song i heard using this name ... since i dont intend to change my own name as mine is also a beautiful name ... i selected it
cheers
@Llonorra22 (1150)
• Philippines
20 Dec 08
Nothing. I just thought of my real name and my birth date. It's that simple. 
@karenkaren (205)
• Philippines
16 Dec 08
well obviously my name is karen and i so want that to be my simple username. too bad it's already taken so i decided to double it
