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No. Identity play is an important part of adolescence and early adulthood. Always has been, always will be. It's the fundamental basis of Shakespeare's Henry IV, among a half dozen other of his plays. Prior to the Internet it didn't matter because if you fucked up at 17 no one remembered by the time you were 19 and all evidence it ever happened was a couple polaroids in a shoebox in your childhood bedroom. Now? Now everything is forever. Getting facts of the Internet is like getting pee out of a swimming pool. Your youthful indiscretions are available to anyone with a search engine. I can find comments I posted on Usenet in 1995. If anyone knew that identity, they could, too.