Pretty much the first thing you have to do when you sign up to any kind of online bingo or gambling site is create a username and password for your account so you can log in whenever you play. Now, we all know how important it is to create a strong password (you can do it here), but how much thought do you put into creating your username?
Why is it important?
So why is your username important? Take this scenario: You’re playing your UK bingo games from Bright Bingo or wherever and you’re on the live chat making friends. As you do. You start chatting to a guy/gal and all is going well until they see your username is ‘XxHoTBbZ95xX’ and run for the hills due to the dodgy capitalisation and annoying abbreviation. Now you’re alone. Again.
Quite a specific scenario but it could happen. So what should it be? Here are some rules to live by when choosing your username…
Be creative
Be creativeJust having ‘John.Smith’ as your username is as boring as watching darts in the dark. Not only will it almost certainly not be available due to someone other boring person having it, but it doesn’t exactly exude confidence and panache, does it? Get that thinking cap on and come up with something a bit more interesting.
Let it reflect your personality
Decide what you want your username to say about you. Do you want to go all William Wallace and strike fear into the hearts of your fellow bingo players or do you want to appear all fluffy and approachable? Either way, you should let it speak your true personality, unless you want to use the whole thing as a personality transplant and live the life you never could as an alter ego. Like Batman or something.
But be careful with that…
Don’t be dishonest
This might seem pretty obvious but don’t go pretending you’re a 20-something female fashion designer if you’re a 45-year-old male trucker. Not cool at all.
Keep it simple
As we’ve established, it’s good to be creative with your username to make it unique and standout. However, in what may seem like a slight contradiction (it’s not), try and keep it relatively simple. You’re not making an unhackable password so ‘Wi!&hjfh7d>/’ isn’t a good choice; it’ll probably just make you look like some kind of automated spam bot or a 3-month-old child who hasn’t refined their fine motor skills enough to use a keyboard properly.
Come up with a system
Have you heard those little ‘games’ that people play where they work out their Game of Thrones name or whatever by taking the first name of their favourite footballer and combining it with a household object. I’ve just made that up, but hopefully you get the idea. Well you could do the same with your online bingo username. Maybe take your favourite colour and combine it with an animal you’d see on an African safari? How does ‘black rhino’ or ‘purple gazelle’ grab you?
