## 21:56 Internet Oddities
### Usernames
Someone I had several courses with in high school recently joined
instagram and continues to be recommended to me; their chosen username
is .
I love it. The brazen declaration of 'music 101', the unashamed
declaration of their email address - in the username no less! - and the
addition of '6' to the end even though the username is available without
the suffix are all fascinating to me.
This runs counter to all of the assumptions I had about what usernames
should be - short, sweet, and poetic at best, informative if it makes
sense - but this is none of those. It's long, brazen, littered with
characters, and clearly advertises someone's character and their hobby.
There's no question of how to contact them; their email is available!
The '6' is incredible, too; it's a complete subversion of the popular
convention to postfix the username with numbers. Typically people will,
upon trying their preferred username (usually some reiteration of their
real name) will postfix it with a string of numbers that hold some
meaning to them. Some add 99 or 1999 to suggest their birth year, while
others choose numbers that are important to them such as their house
number or a lucky number.
Still others picked up on this and began using these numbers without
such a name conflict, picking up on the stylistic choice as a trend of
some sort. This is one of those circumstances, but the name conflict
truly doesn't exist - and the addition of the number breaks parity with
the email-as-username scheme!
### million dollar homepage
### kmikeym: invest in someone's personal decisions
related: HumanIPO