Two questions for the Facebook team:
- How can a married woman be found by her old school friends via search? They can’t. Even if you put your maiden name in your profile, it won’t come up in a search.
- How can a woman change her profile to her married name? There is no name change option, and not many users will be keen to create a whole new account under their married name. [Update: Credit to the #mobitopia guys who pointed out I was talking out of my arse. Under Account, you can change your name.]
I would love for Facebook to allow you to enter a maiden name somewhere, enabling users who search for you to see that your name has since changed.
I’ve been meaning to post about this for ages and ages, it’s so annoying. I don’t want to change my name, I just want to be able to enter my maiden name but on the other hand it does stop psycho ex’s from finding you 🙂
Thankfully my exes aren’t psycho in any way. Maybe slightly childish in their ways, but not psycho. I’m grateful for that!