The new thing: first and middle names?

Hahaha. I have alot of close friends of mine that do change there profile names to avoid some people from finding them on facebook. Like my friend who has 2 girlfriends, 1 knows his fake name, and the other doesn't, but knows a different account. I'm sure they try to justify what they do on facebook because that is what they believe in, but, for me, if you can't be true to yourself, then how can other people know the real you. Happy myLotting

Do you mean the maiden names and married names? If that's the case then I think the reason for it is because they may have old friends that knew them by their old names and not by their new ones. Just a wild guess on my part but yeah, it does get a little annoying to me too. I have two names myself, a first name and a middle name that everybody calls me so I use both. Long story in why but yeah, I use both names however, I've been married twice so I have a maiden name, my old married name and my current married name but I don't use my maiden or my old married name, just my first, middle and current last name. That's good enough for me! If someone wants to find me bad enough, they'll have to look for me! LOL

I actually only know of one person that I am friends with on facebook that chooses to go by just her first and middle name, but I believe that the reason that she does it is because of the fact that she is in the middle of going through a divorce. With that said, I do go by my real name, but I have my privacy settings up pretty high because there have been some people that I've encountered in my life that I really don't want to know anything about me, so all they can see is my name, my profile picture and the fact that I am female.

Absolutely meaningless because Facebook is for your friends, family and people you may have come across in life. Then if it's your first name and middle name how will they know for certain it is you, although they keep staying at your profile picture and other pictures, knowing fully well that they know you but can't add you because of the difference in your name. They might just think it is a case of stolen identity or scam. Seriously, no matter how dumb this is, some people I know use it as a security medium for their personality and life entirely because I have heard about a case whereby someones identity was used to rip off her friends with a unique story to what she had told them before. Sort of like her schedule. Too bad people go to social networking sites to prey on others, such a disgracing act that might even jeopardize your own entire life. Sometimes I see this as being right but people are no longer real on facebook and those who are wouldn't use their first and middle name and then post their real pictures. How dumb can this be? For me, spelling my crazily thus help because only people who are close to me will understand it is the same name but spelt funkily. Ah ah, I just gave them an hint here, now I guess some mylotters will implement this but before you do imform your friend as you might get your friends to block you as they think otherwise.

She may have a reason to keep it public.. like if she works for Microworkers, the facebook account needs to be set to public if you do any facebook stuff on it. there may be other sites that make you keep it public. Mine is public, but I promote my work on Facebook. I keep my name as it is.

Different people have different thinking. Social networking sites let you connect with old friends and make new friends across the globe. People should at least put their real name and age and as far as keeping away from unwanted people is concerned they should enable privacy policy on their profile.

I have one facebook friend (former co-worker) who does this. I thought maybe it was because she was young and single with a baby and didn't want people to be able to find her IRL. She also seems to have a lot of family and friend drama going on, as well as posting from work on her phone (going by the time) a lot. I finally had to hide her activity because I was sick and tired of reading about how she was "done" with some always-unnamed person.

There are those individual who are not really familiar in using such settings in the said program. but then they do more harm than safety. Maybe a good advice will do to make them familiar with.I have a friend on facebook that use aliases to hide his personality but since they upload pictures and places they got to, everybody on his list would know who he is..

That is ridiculous. If you are going to go to a certain extent to hide your name you need to hide other things and set the privacy settings. I have mine set. You have to watch who you let on your friend list as well. Only family and co-workers on my list.

I know it seems pretty stupid doesn't it? I just have my name on there, it's not a common name so I can be found easily but they can't see anything on my FB. I also have my name on photos, twitter and other places so I can be found. It doesn't seem to bother me too much