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Discussion on: How do you create your social media handles?

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Charanjit Chana

I’ve somehow been able to claim @cchana on all of the major social networks. For some accounts I’ve had to suffix a number but very rarely.

I even have cchana.co.uk registered but haven’t been able to claim the .com variant yet.

For my portfolio site I’ve ended up with a domain that spells my first name, Charanjit: charanj.it it never gets old when people realise it!

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Madza

Lucky you 👍😃 Forming a handle with 6 letters (first letter of first name and the added surname) and you still were lucky to get it available 👍
Props to your idea of combining that way 💯Or you just manage to predict all the major sites in their initial phases and register among the first users? 😃😃

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Charanjit Chana

Most likely just luck. I didn’t have access to Instagram in the early days because it didn’t work on my budget Android phone but still managed to get the username I wanted!

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Madza

Good for you 😉 Glad handles are not validated for must-have uses of uppercase, number and other chars, like it is for passwords on some services 😃😃
Surely it is great for security, tho it becomes a nightmare to remember them all as you most likely didn't use patterns like that for first passwords 😉Password managers to the rescue 😉