by Diana Urban on October 19, 2011
Are you planning on changing your name when you tie the knot? If so, you’ll have a lot of forms to fill out, from updating your driver’s license to updating your utility bills. Fortunately, Facebook makes it much easier to change your name than the Social Security Administration.
Here’s how to update your name on Facebook in three simple steps.
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by Diana Urban on October 13, 2011
If you decided to change your name online after marriage, the first place to get started is with your email address. Then you can move on to the rest of your social media accounts. This article specifically covers how to switch your Gmail account name.
Unfortunately, Gmail does not you to change your email address after you create your account. You can change your display name, but your email address must remain the same. Since it’s confusing to have your display name differ from your email address, I recommend creating a new email address.
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by Diana Urban on October 12, 2011
Getting married is a very time consuming task, right from the moment he pops the question. Trust me, I know. I just got married 3 weeks ago, and take a look at the last post on this blog. It was published seven months ago. That must have broken about 50 fundamental laws of blogging.
But from coordinating with venues, to cake tastings, to flowers, and the hundreds of dress fittings you need to go to (ok, maybe not hundreds), there’s just not enough time in the day for everything. If you’re a bride-to-be reading this, I’m sure you haven’t even had time to think about what happens to your online identity after you change your name. Such as your Twitter handle. Click to continue…
by Diana Urban on December 1, 2008
Since starting this blog, I’ve joined several social networking sites. Some for bloggers, some for bookmarking, and some for “twittering.” Most of these sites allow you to upload an avatar, usually a 90×90 image you can use to represent yourself.
I used to be really paranoid about putting my picture anywhere online, except for Facebook where I have complete control over privacy settings. I always used a little blonde Simpsons-style avatar. But now I’m attaching my real name to my blog, and I want to establish my web presence across all the different social media sites. So I uploaded a real picture of me taken last week to all the different sites. It also appears on U Stand Out whenever I make a comment. Click to continue…