Concerns about User Name

[ewells0177]

Hi, I have been trying unsuccessfully to contact the site administrator so that I can change my user name.

I want to do this because my user name is also part of my email address, which potential employers all have access to. When I googled this name, the first hit is my question about missing my birth control pill along with other private information.

I should have more carefully thought about this before I chose this name, but I would really appreciate it if the administrator could assist me with changing it now. If you need another name to choose, I'll go with texastennisgirl09.

Thank you in advance!

[x.st.angel.x]

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[Little]

Why not change your email address? Or have one just for professional means? I have one with gmail that has my full name.
I don't intend to do any more name changes. All the requests have become ridiculous. Unless you have reason to feel you have threatened your personal safety due to your name choice, please do not ask to have your username changed.

[WildChild]

Excellent suggestion. I have several email addresses; personal use, two different business ones and another. I've also used temp addresses that expire in a set time. It's easier to sort your contacts that way. I'm thinking about setting up one just for mechandiser and newsletter contacts as I'm tired of having to sort through so much of it, I don't want to read TechRepublic blogs every single day.

Keep in mind that prospective employers are increasingly looking at Facebook and other social networking sites. I've not dealt with people for business because I've called their phone and they have some overly "cute" or downright foul message on their VM. ANYthing you put out in public, especially on the net, could follow you forever.

[ewells0177]

Well, the problem is, this is my alias for pretty much everything and it would be very difficult to change all of them. My school email address cannot be changed and many potential employers have that address.

Also, I read in your membership policies that you will change the user name if a person's name or other personal information is included in the user name. My last name is in this user name.

I would really appreciate it if you could please do this for me. I'm not sure why we are not allowed to do this on our own, but I'm sure there is a good reason which I am not aware of. Please consider helping me out in this matter.

Thanks

[Nomi01]

I think it is completely unacceptable that you can not change your user name or edit your posts here.

I would have deleted my account here a long time ago because of this, but that is also not possible. I have never seen this on any other website before. There does not seem to be a rational explanation for this either, and if there is, I'd very much like to hear it.

I can only recommend that everybody stop posting and using the site altogether, because your messages and everything will be forever visible to anyone who uses the internet.

This is completely ridiculous.

[WildChild]

It is up to you to use common sense in what you post.
We try to catch and delete when someone posts their personal contact information. There have been innumerable warnings and programs telling people to take care what they put on the internet. If everyone could come in willy nilly and delete all the time, many threads would make no sense at all.

Trying to get yourself banned will not get your old posts removed.

[Texinator]

There does not seem to be a rational explanation for this either, and if there is, I'd very much like to hear it.

I've seen very few forums where it is possible to change your username, and at most of the ones where it is possible, people constantly changing their names becomes a hassle. It's difficult to keep track of who is who.

You can edit your posts within five minutes of writing something. But having the option to edit or delete something at any time invites abuse. People like to use this to post inflammatory remarks and then take them back down at a later time to play innocent.

[CHANDLERS WISH]

I think it is completely unacceptable that you can not change your user name or edit your posts here.

I would have deleted my account here a long time ago because of this, but that is also not possible. I have never seen this on any other website before. There does not seem to be a rational explanation for this either, and if there is, I'd very much like to hear it.

I can only recommend that everybody stop posting and using the site altogether, because your messages and everything will be forever visible to anyone who uses the internet.

This is completely ridiculous.

Nomi01...

You can edit on this Forum as pointed out above.

It appears that you previously provided a MySpace address on this Forum, that has now been deleted.

As posted above, by our Administrator, if you have a valid reason, we will certainly change the user name and have done so.

As your basically non active on this Forum, there is no necessity to change your User name..


CW

[stressed]

To make a suggestion: Since you only have 2 posts with this username, why don't you create a new one and delete the old one?