God it's so irritating when people censor their program, like anyone would really give a **** what it says, and like you're pretending to be a 'l33t h4x0r!'. Seriously, what the hell is the point? From the number of people that I see do it in 'post your desktop' threads, I'm 100% convinced you're all faking your 'illegal softwarez!!!'
NOTE I don't mean censoring buddylists, that makes sense (except censoring your name in MSN messenger... because your name means nothing in that program 
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U235, you bring up a number of good points. But, you miss a number of reasons why one may want to censor icons/parts of a Desktop screenshot.
1) someone on MSN using their real name as a a screen name. I know a number of people who only give out their emails to close friends, thus it should be okay for them to use their real name, right? Well, I didn't feel like giving out their name to everyone and everything that comes through this thread.
2) If there things in the screen shot that are not allowed on the forums.
Warez for example are not allowed. Thus showing of a picture with a nice big warez folder/warez links lying around isn't the smartest idea.
3)Once again names, if you have, say a link to someones blog or xanga or live journal or whatever on your screen, chances are you have their name in the title. Thus people who wanted to could stole into their xanga/lj/blog whatever and harass them or other things. Not nice thing to do.
Yeah, censoring everything might be bad.. but censoring things that you believe should be censored because its not really something you want to give away or shouldn't be giving away, then yeah.. censor it. I censored my friends names, much like your example of censoring a aim buddy list.
