2013 PROMO: HELP: Names in Second Life. Are you hiding your ID from your friends?

Names in Second Life. 
Are you hiding your ID from your friends?
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Outworld

• On Linkedin, I see friends from SL
• I know them from what they do in SL
• I endorse them when I see skills that fit what I know from SL
• Some of them appear with the SL name.  I can easily recognize them.
• Some of them appear with the "real" name.  A few of those I can recognize.
• There are probably others that I know well under the SL name.
• But don't know them at all under the "real" name.
• I can't endorse them.

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• Back in the olden days, before the rise of social media. 
• People had no reason to give out their legal names in SL.  
• But for many people people now, their SL activities 
• are part of their business, profession, or future plans.
• Those activities would go on the resume'
• But they will go nowhere in a job application 
• if they are not connected to the legal name
• I put my legal name as part of my display name

Inworld

• If you change your display name in SL, 
• your friends may not find you on their friends list.
• Because they search under your previous display name

• If you make a notecard and tell people to contact you.
• Be sure people can find you in search.
• Or add your profile url in MySL.  For example, here is my profile  url 
• https://my.secondlife.com/thinkerer.melville
• To get yout profile url, Google search for mysecondlife.com
• You may have to log in with your Second Life password.
• The page should open to your profile page
• The url will be in the browser address bar

• To set your display name
• Me(top menu)-Profile-Edit profile-Display name 
• Be careful.  You won't be able to reset it again for a week
• Linden Knowledge Base: Usernames and display names

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