By Alexey Gavrilov on October 23, 2007

It’s been a month since we have launched Loudtalks and we are approaching 2,000 registered users mark. It’s still a very little number and practically it means that almost all user names are available.

For example, as I write this, such names as bruce, jason, jennifer, jesus, michael are all available.

Still we are getting a lot of registrations with fancy names like jones331 or _ktr1954 (these are not real but you got the idea). The reason is simple. Once you picked the name — it’s yours. Most people will stick with it even though it was a random choice.

It’s an interesting effect and I’m wondering what would happen in 20 years. If the trend will go on we will have people naming their children AlexG_2047_12 or JulieF_A23045 (and check them in Google Names before they do to assure uniqueness).

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