Cool Screen Names

A screen name is a name chosen by a person to use a computer network or the Internet. A screen name can also be referred to as a 'user name'. The screen name serves the purpose of authenticating a person while logging in into an email account, instant messenger, chat room and similar web services.

Cool Screen Name Ideas
One should choose his screen name carefully, since a screen names gives an impression about the person using that particular name. A screen name is used by Internet users in online chat rooms, forum discussions, and for the purpose of networking. The screen names are also used to hide the identity, since many users don't want their real names to be disclosed. Special settings can be assigned for this purpose. Nowadays, many websites provide the users with various other services apart from chatting. The screen name that one chooses is thus visible for the all the services availed by the user on that particular website. One should therefore be careful while deciding onto a suitable screen name. The screen name should be such that it doesn't offend or hurt religious sentiments.

How to Create Cool Screen Names?
You can come up with many different screen names ideas and many different names can be created using the ASCII code. There are many special ASCII characters which could be used to generate names with symbols. One can experiment a lot in the process of creating cool screen names. The technique of using the 'ALT' key in combination with numbers yields different characters and symbols. Here are few examples that explain how to use the 'ALT' in combination with numbers to generate different characters.

• ALT+0169 results into '©'.
• ALT+0153 generates the symbol '™'.
• ALT+0166 creates the symbol '¦'.
• ALT+0164 generates the symbol '¤'.

Cool Screen Names for the Internet
The following tables provide the readers with some of the commonly used screen names. A user can choose a suitable name in order to display it as his screen name.

Funny Screen Names

Fruit Loops	Buckshot	LoonyBin	Barf Bag	Coconut Patty
Ole Granny	Fizzle	Bull Frog	Dog Bone	Fatso
Tuna Fish	Spooky Tooth	Jaw Breaker	Pinnochio	Dumpy
Pokey	Knucklehead	Chatter Box	SuperBrain	Dr. Quack
Tippy Toes	Daffy	Phoney Baloney	Applejacks	Jitters
Cornball	Squiggle	Mr.Puniverse	Carrot Top	Catfish
Jammer	Good Golly	Bookworm	Brown Noser	Dinky
Thimble	Gumbo	Wishbone	Fiddlesticks	Oink
Bogus	Old Timer	Jiffy	Porky	Puggly
Whopper	Squirrel Nuts	Shrinky Dink	Bozo	Boomerang

Cute Screen Names

Tweety	Fuzzy	Tomboy	Munchkin	Lollypop
Ponytail	Sunshine	Dimples	SweetyPie	Winky
Poppy	Cupcake	Cookie	Buttercup	Smiley
Bluebell	Babygirl	HoneyBee	Sparkle	Dazzle
Snickers	Dizzy	CandyApple	Muffin	Bunnytale
Poodle Puff	Babycakes	CottonCandy	Butterfly	SweetPea
Sugar	Pumpkin	Cutie Pie	PowderPuff	Pebbles
Angelface	PattyCake	Giggles	Song Bird	Babyface
Curlylocks	Hummingbird	Tabby	Dixie	Pippy
Flutter	Punky	Zany	Skiddles	Cuddly-n-Sweet

Tips to Choose a Screen Name
The screen name that one chooses should not be too explicit. One should sensibly choose a screen name while also being creative. Some websites arrange the screen names of the members in an alphabetical order. One can thus add letters like 'A' in the beginning to make their screen names easily visible to other users. Some websites put restrictions on the number of characters to be used for a screen name. Thus, a compact name that is also creative and catchy should be chosen as a screen name.

There are many different sites on the world wide web that need you to use interesting or cool screen names. One should however, try to be a little creative and come up with a name that suits his personality the best.