How do I make my aim screen name private?

Is there any way to make your name not show up on google if you use it as your username on stackexchange websites? Or should I use some random text like how screen names usually were from the AIM days?

• I feel like people are more hostilite on stackexchange webites if it's just random people. If there's a profile pic that helps a little and having a name also helps (because people tend to look people up on social sites and google and than from there get a feel for you). If i revealed everything about me basically saying hey this is me and here's everything about me people give better answers and the hostility is less. I don't care if anyone looks me up from there but I don't want a stackexahnge account showing under google when my name is typed in. The only reason I feel comfortable asking very important questions is when there's no possibility of it being being finable on google with my name.

• Answer:

  You are free to use a pseudonym, as long as you don't use it to impersonate other people. (There was a well-known case of a user who liked to impersonate Jeff Atwood, back in the day.) Names on Stack Overflow are not unique or reserved, by design, so don't worry about having to come up with anything original. Even http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Bloggs or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doe will work, though most people will recognise those as placeholder names, so you might want to use something different if you want to sound like a real person. :-)