chuckling with pained amusement at the naivety of past-us being all scared of how many people around us were becoming/coming out as plural.
"but how will i know who i'm speaking to in a friend's system! i'll have to re-learn who everyone is! how will i keep track of it all?!"
oh honey. dear, sweet Janine, in a few months you'll be in that boat too. and then in a few years there'll be fourteen of "you", and the perceived way you control "your" body will be through a VR-like space and a bunch of shapeshifting dolls named ∆ and ∇. learning a few new names isn't the hard and scary part of plural things, you'll be fine.
...i mean, you won't actually, but that's beside my point