Changing your Gransnet username

Yes I changed mine Davida I thought my previous user name would identify me too easily. Think I jumped out of the frying pan into the fire though. Not much imagination unlike some other Gransnetters who have really clever names.

Davida I did think you were a man a while ago until you mentioned that you were female. To be honest, I was looking for a totally different name and barely noticed the "a"tagged on the end.

Yes, I saw that some thought you were a man Davida before now ( although I knew you were not, having read your early posts.)
Changed my name just once, due to info I had posted and the revelation that our posts were being looked at and commented on just about everywhere, made me more circumspect about what I write.
I agree with charleygirl that the added on ‘a’ is not all that noticeable.

I tagged the "girl" on to my Charley to make 100% certain that everybody knew I was female. I took the name of my last male cat, spelling et al.

I dislike mine as I feel it makes me sound severe.

I like it BB it sounds like a jazz trumpeter.?

Or a face cream?

I changed mine because it really was too identifiable.

Very happy with my username as it definitely confirms I am one of the few males this forum.

Just the same with almost all other stages throughout in my life, I would not change a thing.

And have never been a conformer

Thanks for your posts and comments. I can see that simply adding the "a" may be insufficient. Charleygirl I like the way you added "girl". Perhaps I should do something like that. And be Davidagran1968?

Davida I think that is much better and does not leave anybody with any doubts.

I have had my user names since I joined and hope never to have to change it - or i will get very confused.

lemongrove I notice that when opinions from here are re-posted on Facebook, they use your real name not you GN alias.

Yes Lemon and I'm not sure I like it. I have to be careful what I say!

Do they? I am really surprised they can quote you using your real name. That is ridiculous and takes away our what I thought was a guarantee of anonymity!

I suppose it’s because you’re speaking as a FB identity rather than a GN one. But it does make you realise how much more open we can be on GN - and rude.

I’m just curious why some of you use a number? I’d have thought just a name (some are very witty) would be sufficient?

I left and came back again with my new name, which in fact just suddenly came to me. It was just after my husband died, and he had so been looking forward to celebrating 67 years of marriage, boasted almost embarrassingly about being married to me for 66 years, he died on 10th February; our anniversary was 8th March, so it is JUSTME67. The reason I left? spending too much time here!

I don’t think they switch our usernames to our real names on Facebook Bradfordlass. What you see on Facebook are comments from people on Facebook, comments added to the story after it appears there.

Oh dear, it appears (to me) that you are only allowed to change your user name once, on Gransnet. So having changed my user name from David968 to Davida1968, It seems that I now to have to stick with it, and thus I can't add in gran (If any GNs know differently, please tell me - I am not the brightest tech user!)

Urmstongran, I added the number in case anyone used the same name - "David". (I note that there is at least one other "David" on Gransnet.) And as Justme67 has outlined, there are other reasons why people choose to use numbers, as well.

Fair point.
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Davida1968 lots of people have changed their names more than once - they just close their account, wait a few days/weeks, and re-join with a new username

I'm curious though. Why did you originally choose the name David1968 as your username if you are female? Surely you would have guessed people would think you were a granddad?!

David is a family name and 1968 is a significant year for me.
Being a Bear Of Little Brain (when it comes to using tech), I hadn't realised that my username would be "used" and thus "open" to others, in this way!! (I do realise how pathetic this sounds.) I'm on no other social media "platforms", so I wasn't used to this. Now I know!