I'm usually pretty honest online to a point. I never give my full name except to those I trust and I don't go around posting pics or vids of myself. I also no longer use my full name when signing up for emails and stuff because like lizardlady mentioned I too have been cyber-stalked at one time and it's a very frustrating and nerve racking thing to have to put up with. My stalker was a sociopath and narcissist whom he and I'm guessing his entire clique totally ruined an email service that I was using at the time by hacking into it somehow and on top of that he sent viruses to my yahoo mail account, hacked me nephew's email account and who knows how many other family members' personal information and I had to get all new email accounts when I finally did get back online later plus I had to wipe out my hard drive and do a complete re-install of win xp because that's what I was using at the time. I don't like to lie even online and used to be 100% honest whenever I signed up for emails and services. Now I am careful not to reveal too much info. It's better to be safe than to be sorry.