Heehee, how funny :) Sorry, I might owe some people apologies, coz I seem to address people with their online names, regardless...is that some weird form of un-netiquette...? eep...
I reckon it mostly comes down to switching the name, but it depends how badly you want to switch it. For me, I never want to change my Zev status in other parts of the cyberworld, so it just...won't happen. Even if people there started calling me Lauren, I'd insist on firmly talking about myself as Zev, so they'd get the picture ;-) But it was easy to change to Fred on ober.net, simply coz it was so darn confusing with the number of Laurens around there! Plus my login is still Lauren, so it wasn't like I was totally changing it, so I guess that was like a security blanket for me :-)
So as long as you're comfortable with the name change and you're willing to embrace it (and encourage people to use it more often than using Bunne, like me and Zev!!) then I don't think it'll be a problem at all.
As for the alienation...I've had some mates who have changed their aliases without telling me...!! so that's a pretty mean indication of how they feel about me...my suggestion there is to make sure everyone who you'd like to know, knows, otherwise people will get miffed if they haven't been informed about where you've gone. But again, if you want to remain partially Bunlified, then it probably won't matter too much to those people who have always known you as the Buneater, anyway.
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on 2006-11-27 07:39 am (UTC)I reckon it mostly comes down to switching the name, but it depends how badly you want to switch it. For me, I never want to change my Zev status in other parts of the cyberworld, so it just...won't happen. Even if people there started calling me Lauren, I'd insist on firmly talking about myself as Zev, so they'd get the picture ;-) But it was easy to change to Fred on ober.net, simply coz it was so darn confusing with the number of Laurens around there! Plus my login is still Lauren, so it wasn't like I was totally changing it, so I guess that was like a security blanket for me :-)
So as long as you're comfortable with the name change and you're willing to embrace it (and encourage people to use it more often than using Bunne, like me and Zev!!) then I don't think it'll be a problem at all.
As for the alienation...I've had some mates who have changed their aliases without telling me...!! so that's a pretty mean indication of how they feel about me...my suggestion there is to make sure everyone who you'd like to know, knows, otherwise people will get miffed if they haven't been informed about where you've gone. But again, if you want to remain partially Bunlified, then it probably won't matter too much to those people who have always known you as the Buneater, anyway.
I'm glad I don't look seagullian, btw :D