Facebook?

[Jennygirl]

Ok so I've been thinking long and hard about returning to facebook. It's been about 9 or 10 months since I left, but recently I've been getting flustered by my friends posting photos and never being able to see them added together with being constantly out of the loop on events/gatherings... Having a new account also seems like an easy way of letting the few remaining people who I haven't come out to kind of "figure it out" when I start getting tagged in photos.

Just curious to see what other people did about facebook during their transitions.

Gawd I hate facebook, but I'm feeling weak.

[lawliver]

I actually ended up deleted my facebook, and made a new one. I added the people who met me as Ollie, and added the friends I know that knew me before I came out but still choose to call me by my chosen name. It's a pretty tough situation, facebook is. Someone could add you and call you out. I try to avoid that as much as possible. Not that I'm ashamed of who I am, but because I hate having to explain it over and over again.

[smile_jma]

I never said what I was and have very few pictures of me, so it's not too difficult for me to hide. I've hinted about what I'm doing on there and the friends that know know, the ones who don't are probably confused.  As for name, I've always had 2, boy name in normal, and then in the parentheses, my preferred girl name. It's been like that for a few years and I even moved countries and got a job in a not so accepting country.

When I arrived, some coworkers asked me which name I prefer, and wanted to know if I was gay. That was about it.   Still haven't told them anything, though.  When I text them through an app, my names are both on there as my ID. I'm sure they guess something, but who knows.

[bethany]

I posted a note telling of my start of my transition. A few days later I changed my name. But before I did anything I cleaned up my friends list so only those I truly wanted to know would. I got rid of people who over the past made no attempt to contact me even on facebook other than to play some silly game. 

I have a thread where I talk about this.
https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,135091.0.html 

[Shantel]

I quit facebook, too many old acquaintances mostly female wanting to hookup as I read between the lines with my NO-BS glasses on. It seemed a bit too intrusive on many levels as I enjoy my privacy and it was a huge time waster so I sought to keep Susan's as my only online networking site and Flickr for any photos.

[Sara Thomas]

I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with Facebook... on the one hand, it's another place to be ignored... on the other, it's a waste of time and probably a very serious (actually a "very serious", as it makes no attempt to conceal) threat to privacy.

I currently have two profiles... one for each gender, but I'm kinda reckoning on deleting (to the extent FB allows) the second profile at some point, as I dip my toes further in the water (re: coming out).

[Blaine]

I use mine more as a newsfeed for video games than a way to keep in touch with people. The only ones who bother writing to me or comment on my stuff are the ones I see every week so... They're already in the loop. I'm still trying to decide what to do with mine once I start RLE but for now it looks like I'm going to erase and start over.

[Jennygirl]

Well I broke down last night and made a new profile, seems so weird to be back on... But so far so good

[Ms. OBrien CVT]

I have a Facebook Account as me.  A lot of my friends are in the same field.

[JohnnieRamona]

I only have just over 100 friends on facebook. I came out as transgender on FB, and changed the spelling of my name from Johnny to Johnnie. I haven't changed my gender on there from male to female yet. I did all that last November, and things have been going fine. In fact, the support I've gotten via facebook has really been helpful.

[Rita]

I have a few close people on FB, but I mainly use it to like groups and have something interesting to view during the day.

I never used my FB page prior to transition save a few people I already came out to by that point so I just changed everything from name to e-mail linked.

[KelKel]

Wow, this makes me feel old but I never had a Facebook account prior to transition (it was just barely out of the "college students only" phase)  therefore there was never a need to "transition" on there as well.

[kelly_aus]

I have 2 profiles.. One under my current name and another under my old name. I posted a coming out message on my old profile in which I invited people to Friend my new one - most did. I keep meaning to delete the old one, but never quite get around to it. I log in to the old one from time to time, just to see what's going on with those that haven't made the change..

[holly_]

I still have my boy fb account for now since I'm not really out yet.  I want to keep that definitely because a lot of people I know are on it and I like following their lives and seeing what's going on.  I will for surely be creating another account once I start to transition more with HRT and tell most of my friends about that account to add it.

[KayCeeDee]

I am keeping my old one to follow relatives etc. but have my new one to keep in touch with my new friends.

[Lucid]

I haven't started transition yet, but I imagine that once I do, I'll probably just keep my old account.  I rarely use the thing, and people rarely use it to contact me.

I really do hate facebook.  Mostly just forwarding cute pictures, like this if you agree, etc.

[Kayle Sky]

I have just the one account. And decided if people wanted to stay in my life as well as accept me for me that they could or delete my friendship. I am still me after all. I don't feel like I should waste my energy on that. So I did lose some friends on it. But the friends I have kept I am much closer with. And I can finally be me. Actually for the most part they already had me pegged. Btw, here is to the supreme court ruling today.

[Sara Thomas]

Holy smokes, Orihime! You've been a very naughty girl!! 

[StellaB]

I didn't have it in the early stages or coming out but I have it now and it's where I keep contact with my family, people in my life and the 'survivors' from my previous life.

You have to be careful about how much information you put through your main e-mail account because of the ridiculous way FB decides that you constantly need more friends. It's come so close to outing me on at least two occasions.

[VegasLakers]

I have kept my current Facebook and changed my name. Nobody cared and I was too lazy to create another profile. I need to delete my photos though.