Names in Second Life.
Are you hiding your ID from your friends?
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Outworld
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.
- 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
- 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
- What do we do in Virtual Worlds?
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- Google search this blog, column on right
- or put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
- Annotated screen shots made with Jing
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- Thinkerer Melville/Selby Evans
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