Sometimes when I'm feeling blue I write letters addressed to fake people and share my thoughts with them.
Can’t tell if this is /s or not, but have you considered a real life pen pal that writes back?
I have considered it before but I just don't trust real people enough to share my personal thoughts with them.
Just use a fake name with them. Like the one you would get from a generator.
Messing with tech support scammers, although for that purpose the Fake Name Generator (search for it) is better because it generates addresses and credit card numbers (that pass the checksum validation) too.
Good test data for building your applications.
Authors (pen names),
musicians,
bloggers,
anyone else who wants a little privacy but still wants to share publicly.
Filling out fake data for your testing or demo environments is also a good use-case.
Inside of companies with data protection requirements, these can be handier and more natural than censoring PII or PCI or replacing them with an encrypted string. It’s much more natural for the data science process.
I generated a fake name and I am using it as a fake identity where I don't want to use my real name, like in a comment on youtube video. It's like my alter ego ;)
I keep getting emails for a person with the name of my fake identity.
Sounds like you and your alter ego got burned at least once.
Generating character names for fiction writing.
Greeking designs is a huge use case for me. plugging in random user info into a dashboard or something.
I think that's the main use case but I guess it could help when NPCs for a world or a book.
Generating bot accounts on Twitter and Reddit for you know why.