It’s been rough. Tweaking and
shifting and changing ... hours wasted ... frustration mounting ... and nothing
accomplished. Oh sorry, that was my
blogger template. This post is about my Facebook
username.
There has recently been concern amongst my followers that I am
experiencing an identity crisis. What’s
up with all the changes to your name, everyone wanted to know. Uh oh!
I was trying to change my username and, unfortunately, everyone was
getting updates of each one of my erroneous attempts.
There was a problem getting my identity right. Initially, the username for my Facebook page was
The Write Break to tie in with my
blog. Then I realized it wasn’t the blog
I was promoting ...because I only write the blog for an online presence for ...
well, me. More about that in a future
post. So, I then changed my username to The Write Break with Phyllis Humby. Made sense at the time. However, when I left comments on other writer
sites, it looked more like a plug for my blog than a response. That’s just my opinion, no one made a remark
to that effect.
Regardless, I dropped The Write
Break from the username (even though the address remains www.facebook.com/TheWriteBreak
)and inserted my middle name to differentiate from my personal Facebook profile. Regrettably, when I typed in my name, I
inadvertently made a typo. Oops! I had to change it again. Each change resulted in an update on your Facebook
site. Oh, brother. Hence, the questions and feedback.
My explanation was simple enough.
Or so I thought. They
persisted. Are you planning to use your
middle name on future published stories, they asked. I hadn’t thought of it but, sure, why
not. They then wanted to know if I was
changing my name on my blog, too. How
about your magazine column, they asked, will it be Up Close and Personal with Phyllis Louise Humby? Hmmm ... no, using the middle name sounds too
ostentatious.
My intention all along was simply to distinguish my writer page from my
personal profile. Another suggestion was
to change my name on my personal profile.
No! This was getting out of hand. Signing into my Facebook account, I returned
to the Update Info page and deleted the middle name, leaving it Phyllis Humby, hoping that would be the
end of it. It wasn’t.
More feedback indicated confusion over which site my status updates
originated, in the event that people followed both my personal and my writer
sites – even though the profile pics were slightly different.
Seriously, I tended to agree that the two sites should have different
usernames and considered using Phyllis Humby, Writer. I typed it in the space for username and wondered
if the word writer would be better with a lower case w. I almost changed it but enough was
enough. I would not add writer to my name, not with a lower case or an upper case w. Forget it! No more changes.
When I signed off, Facebook asked if I wanted to leave the page because
I had unsaved changes. I didn’t want to
save the changes so I said yes, leave the page.
Of course, when you want something saved it disappears, and ... yes, you
guessed it ... now we have Change number SIX, Five updates too many for you to
scroll through while searching out the good stuff. Sorry!
The username for my Facebook writer page is Phyllis Humby, Writer with an upper case W. It’s going to stay that way unless ... unless
you have a suggestion...
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