I wonder if the divide between people who are fine with disclosing their first name online and people who are not is a generation thing or if it’s linked to name popularity, or both. Maybe all my unease stems from having a Level III name. Like Level I is having such a common first name it’s impossible to be nervous about disclosing it because what could happen, someone tries to doxx you by googling “Emma”? on Level II your name is not common but not exactly rare. You’ve met people who share it but not enough to make you fully comfortable divulging it, so you wait a little before offering it to internet acquaintances as a token of friendship. Level III is when your name is rare enough that you’ve never met anyone who shares it, and revealing it makes you feel alarmingly exposed. You know there are others with this name out there, you know Of them but everyone you know thinks only of you when they hear it, which makes you determined to keep it secret save for very special occasions like Rumpelstiltskin