Could somebody enlighten me on why many people use nameless-obscure-unrelated-blabber for their MSN nick?

Yes, I fully understand the importance of hiding one’s identity in a fierce network jungle. In fact, I strongly advise the use of pseudonym in more liberal chatting services such as in IRC or WinMX or Battle.net or etcetera. However, since every people in your MSN list are technically your friends, why make things difficult. It is always with deepest reluctance that I type ?Ini siapa yah?? (Read: ?Who is this??) to anyone with exotic email and out of the ordinary nickname who page me. Yeah, nickname and not ?type a personal message? feature which is available in at least MSN 7.5. I adopt lazes faire approach to ?personal message?.

So far, I have identified several reasons for such behaviour of hiding one?s identity behind a series of nameless-obscure-unrelated-blabber:

• People want to announce something important to everyone including people who are still using MSN 1.0 Beta which does not have ?personal message? feature and forget to include means for people to identify themselves.
• People addicted  to announce anything to everyone including people who are still using MSN 1.0 Beta? and forget or accidentally forget to?
• Split personality - the easy way out to blame almost everything
• Terrorists who are discussing their next-big-thing behind ?PeacefulBoy2001? and ?InnocentGirl777? try to avoid government?s detection - I just love conspiracy theory
• People who get satisfaction from typing ?How dare you forget about me!? or ?Guess! (grin)? - Don’t tell me such people exist.

I believe one of the above category should be correct. Hit me if you have other theory or disagree.

In any case, please be aware that I do not wish to persuade anyone to adopt clear and concise MSN nicknames (e.g. ?Aditya Lesmana, 20 years old single?). That will make MSN looks so unbearably dull and geeky. A simple telltale hint to help me remember who you are behind those nameless-obscure-unrelated-blabbers - initials, plain email id, etcetera ? will be much helpful for clueless people like me.

Oh my… what have I write. I just hope that people who read this entry do not put me in their MSN’s ignore list or blacklist.