I am a new user on Steemit and my name is “@smarmy”. I don’t like my username. I had tried to specify a different one when I registered for my account but while waiting for my account to be verified, I decided to test if an account associated with my phone number was still under consideration. I put the name “smarmy” into the account name field and the web browser remembered it. When I received my initiation email with the password and entered it in Steemit, it was all over. My name will forever be @smarmy.

The word “smarmy” is usually considered derogatory in the English language and in the USA, where I live. It is an adjective referring to insincere flattery. Perhaps I am smarmy myself and perhaps I am not. I do try to be nice to people. Given that many Internet names are a combination of other words, “smarmy” here means “small army”. I am a small army of one person. “Small army” is very different from “insincere flattery”.

Why do I need to be a small army? The world is not what it should be or perhaps it is as it always has been. I prefer to play win-win games with people while much of our society is in a destructive game of win-lose. Anything you create in such an environment is subject to consumption. I prefer to reap the benefits of my own work rather than having to give it away. The small army is here to protect the way of life that I prefer.

I consider this first post to be a bit silly. Many people on Steemit complain that they blog about one aspect of their lives, which gives their account an identity, and need a new account to blog on a different topic. There are multiple things that I could blog about now but I am not yet ready to have my identity profiled on this platform and I don't know the Steemians yet. So, I am writing this post about my silly name.