While
Tinder
, Bumble, and various other online dating applications usually require customers to make use of their unique actual names (about,
their own first names
),
OkCupid
features long enabled online daters to mask their particular identities with usernames like DaddyzPrincess29 or members of unicorn__jizz. The good news is, the dating internet site has decided to
forgo those bad usernames of yore
— and consumers would have to flirt along with their real personas.

OkCupid revealed the change through an
open-letter on the weblog
, resolved to terrible usernames that sound eerily comparable to our past and
embarrassing AIM display screen labels
. The blog post checks out:

We realize that, for some, usernames are an easy way showing off who you are. But also for many, they have been a discomfort to come up with and a pain to keep in mind (or, in instances like unicorn__jizz, tough to forget). And in addition we wish to instead make use of your profile to provide individuals an insight in the passions, without a made-up monicker.

The dating website continues on to spell out that usernames will be removed ahead of the new-year. The alteration begins with a test group earlier’s rolled out over all customers. But as
Motherboard
points out, some users are involved that needing their particular real brands could make folks effortless objectives for harassment and violate their unique privacy.