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Ironically - this is already a fairly established practice at Burning Man. Each year when we come "Home" (many of us) declare ourselves to our 40,000+ fellow community members with a new name. You use it in your camp, and at all the places you visit, so people know you by _no other name_ then the one you've used.

Some people rotate these names year after year, some keep the same tag - there are hundreds of people I know _only_ by their playa name.

Further to that - the sheer lack of eletronica on the Playa means that what little is tracked (presuming they don't log onto tribe.net when they get back to the 'real world'), is verbal.

Truly is a home away from home.



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