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- <p>In <a href=".././category/rants.html">rants</a>. </p>
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- </footer><!-- /.post-info --><p>Dear last.fm and many, many more.</p>
- <h1>I would really like to change my username.</h1>
- <p>A social service should allow me to update certain personal things. Many people
- use different emails for different things. Currently I have at least four
- email-addresses that I use regularly.</p>
- <p>Often I want people to be able to find me on social sites if they know
- just one of my digital identities. Yet many sites only allow me to associate
- one address to my account. - This is just poor programming.</p>
- <p>The same goes for usernames. As an example we can look at last.fm. </p>
- <p>I created my last.fm account back in the dawn of time (well - a few years ago,
- I am not the early adopter that I would like to be). My user name is
- <a href="http://last.fm/user/lovepade" title="Link to my last.fm account">lovepade</a>
- but it could just as easily be "formerGirlfriend&me". Such a username is just
- foolish to carry around.</p>
- <p>Of course one should choose a good, solid and robust username from the start.
- But many times people don't. They call themself "skyw4alker" and take geekpride
- in the esoteric projected qualities of their life and wisdom. But 6 years
- later they have a high responsibility job and want to project other values.</p>
- <p>Or what ever reason they may have to change their social signals.</p>
- <p>But the username is <a href="http://www.last.fm/group/Change+the+username%21">set in stone</a>
- and it's frankly embarrassing.</p>
- <p><em>So please. If you aim to provide a social serve, then let me update me
- social appearances the same way I might want to update my wardrobe.</em></p>
- <p>As an added incentive: For every extra email adress that people can use to
- find me, extra users will come to your site. And by making it easy for me to
- keep my original
- profile - you get some extra datamining goodness. Goodness that has
- value, and that disappears if I must create a new profile in order to change
- my username.</p><p>There are <a href=".././let-me-change-my-username-and-email.html#disqus_thread">comments</a>.</p>
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