As far as I know it isn’t used, but to avoid conflicts/problems, other plugins might use it, I’d go with adding a meta to the wp_usermeta table. There is a set of functions for handling that:
Shouldn’t make a big difference for the functionality you want to implement, but you’re on the saver side of things.
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