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For the same reason I wouldn't recommend somebody named David going by Davey as an adult, or a Nicholas going by Nicky. Some nn's are just better on children than adults.

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This is subject to regional tastes, though. In the South, it's quite common to see men called Tommy, Billy, Bobby and Ricky etc, but up north you don't see it as much and it seems not to be the thing to do.

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I know many Thomases (including an uncle) but I know of none who go by the full name in their daily lives. I do know a couple who have, say, business cards that identify them as Thomas professionally, but even they are not called Thomas socially.

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I know a couple Sams, but none of them goes by Samuel. (Unless their mothers are mad at them! lol

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My husband is named Phillip, and his parents never called him Phil and never wanted anybody else to. But most everybody he meets, even though he would introduce himself as Phillip, takes it upon themselves to shorten it to Phil, and he has jsut about given up trying to correct them. So, with family and a few close friends he's still Phillip, but most of his work buddies and such call him Phil. They kow what his preferred name is, (if I call his work and ask to talk to Phillip, they know who I mean) but it's like they can't stop themselves from trimming it down.