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vixalicious So some of you may remember this post in which I bemoaned the changing face of the internet and what to do about alias vs real name. Today I have taken the leap and moved away from vixalicious outside of the DW/LJ world. It was psychologically a hard step, I have to admit, and the dust has yet to settle, but here is what I came up with:
1) I did not want to "lose" my vixalicious identity, in case I should want to to return to it down the road. So for my twitter account, I created a new account called SoSaysBeth (feel free to follow if that is your thing) but kept the old vixalicious one as well. Twitter does allow you to rename, but since I didn't want to give it up, I opted not to do that. It was actually pretty simple - I logged in as my new account, went to my old profile page, and just followed everyone. Then I disconnected the link from the old account to facebook, and linked the new account. Then I had to go into my desktop tweetdeck and link up the new account, set it to primary, and set up new columns. And I had to link the account to my iPhone app.
Tumblr was even easier. I created a second blog, with a fake username. Then I went to my current one and changed it to SSB. Then I went to the fake one and changed it to vixalicious. So the name is protected, and if I want it back I can just do it again in reverse.
Next up was gmail. This is the challenging one. I have the Vix account and my named account, with Vix as the primary and the named account forwarded. Now I've reversed that, and given my named account rights to edit my calendars. Then I had to go unlink Vix off my phone, and link up the named account. I'm still not sure I've got everything just right there, and I didn't even touch Google Docs, but I think I can do a similar sharing rights thing there.
So for those who were curious from the original post, this is my current solution. I think I'm happy with it so far, and it was a relief to look at my facebook profile and NOT see vixalicious there for all the RL world to see.
1) I did not want to "lose" my vixalicious identity, in case I should want to to return to it down the road. So for my twitter account, I created a new account called SoSaysBeth (feel free to follow if that is your thing) but kept the old vixalicious one as well. Twitter does allow you to rename, but since I didn't want to give it up, I opted not to do that. It was actually pretty simple - I logged in as my new account, went to my old profile page, and just followed everyone. Then I disconnected the link from the old account to facebook, and linked the new account. Then I had to go into my desktop tweetdeck and link up the new account, set it to primary, and set up new columns. And I had to link the account to my iPhone app.
Tumblr was even easier. I created a second blog, with a fake username. Then I went to my current one and changed it to SSB. Then I went to the fake one and changed it to vixalicious. So the name is protected, and if I want it back I can just do it again in reverse.
Next up was gmail. This is the challenging one. I have the Vix account and my named account, with Vix as the primary and the named account forwarded. Now I've reversed that, and given my named account rights to edit my calendars. Then I had to go unlink Vix off my phone, and link up the named account. I'm still not sure I've got everything just right there, and I didn't even touch Google Docs, but I think I can do a similar sharing rights thing there.
So for those who were curious from the original post, this is my current solution. I think I'm happy with it so far, and it was a relief to look at my facebook profile and NOT see vixalicious there for all the RL world to see.
