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[Jamiess]

I have two accounts also, but to keep from logging on and off I use Internet explorer for one account and firefox for my other. I also have separate email accounts.

[Arch]

I have two accounts also, but to keep from logging on and off I use Internet explorer for one account and firefox for my other.

Hunh. Smart. I never thought of this. But then, I'm computer-stupid.

[harlee]

I made a male facebook before I knew that the word for me feeling like this was that I was actually trans. I made it under a completely different name to my birth name, and I added the friends I made off some chat websites and MSN on there No one I had seen in real life knew about it, and I was pretty much living as 2 people. I talked to these guys sooo much! Eventually we met up, but yeah Then when I found out about being transgender...which was probably 5 months after first talking to them, I made a male facebook for my real self. I didnt have the guts to add my real life friends to that facebook until I left the school. And that was pretty much how I came out to them all, by adding them on that facebook  They dont talk to me anymore, but ohwell haha, I made new friends!

I reckon you should go for it, and have the facebook you want 

[Hrobinson]

i have a FB too, just go for it.

[Dana Lane]

I kept my same page I have always had and as I transitioned my page came along with me. Just like my real life. I dropped a hint here and there and set off some of my friend's (from work) trandar. They came to me to show support.  It did help in coming out but at the same time it caused some confusion. I had coworkers ask me in the hall "So, do I call you Dana now?". One of them actually referred to me as Dana in a meeting with upper management. :-) Those around us will either transition with us or will leave.

[michelle.ch]

You can go ahead and enter your phone number. Once the verification process is over you can delete that information on your profile. When I setup my new profile I believe I had to enter a code that needed to be sent to my phone. Are you talking about that?

That's the one, and the reason I had to do it is because it said "We've noticed some suspicious activity on your facebook profile", but all I had done was send that one message to a friend from my other profile. Was it that my name was too similar? I have seen others posting with the same names and three different accounts.

I've actually tried to put a number in, but haven't get any reply. I think that's only going to work within the US, why would facebook pay money to send a message overseas? Not having facebook isn't the end of the world anyway....it will leave me time to do more productive things, like posting here!

I'll just post this as a warning to others that you need to keep everything as separate as possible if you have more than one account, because you aren't really supposed to have more than one account.

[Jamiess]

I've never had trouble making an account, but I don't remember a verification code. Maybe I made it before they started that.

[marte]

I've been thinking of making a FB account (never had one!) because I keep losing touch with people over me not being too big on social networking...

my biggest problem is the gender option. I wish there was an option other than f/m, like "other" or an option to make it private. While I don't want to out myself, I can't just put "female" as my gender. It's not right

lol it seems ridiculous being held back by something like this but it really is a dilemma

[Lee]

Artur, you can leave it blank or set it to male and then select it to not be shown.  However, I realized that going the second route doesn't work particularly well as facebook will refer to you in male pronouns to your friends, which can raise questions.  If you leave it blank, you get gender neutral pronouns.

[marte]

facebook doesn't let you keep the gender blank anymore unfortunately..

[Superrad]

I have one. When I came out I used my status to tell the general populace--people who've added me that I don't talk to too often and people it generally wouldn't make sense to wrangle up and tell individually. I switched my gender marker on there a few months before I publicly came out but I used the option where facebook hid it. It was a really imperfect system that would occasionally mark me as 'he' or say 'his' whatever. I still use the same account I've always had and just changed the name and gender marker. I've almost untagged myself in old photos, but I haven't done it completely.

I generally enjoy Facebook, and it was really helpful in coming out. I told people if they had a problem with my identification, they should defriend me. In the end it was one of my most popular, most "liked" statuses and I had four more friends than I did before. Go figure, right? xP

[Lee]

facebook doesn't let you keep the gender blank anymore unfortunately..

Shoot, never mind then :/

[danielleclark1987]

Well I just deleted my "boy" account. I now have my one account! Holla'! Most have been supportive, some haven't said anything and didn't respond to my friend requests, and one told me that she could never love Danielle Clark. It could have been worse, I suppose. It still sucks that she said that.

[Jamiess]

Congratulation for deleting your boy account. Now you are a full woman online. You are awesome and brave  !

[danielleclark1987]

Congratulation for deleting your boy account. Now you are a full woman online. You are awesome and brave  !

Umm... not completely. My A4A account is still "boy mode". Lol! I'm not so sure too many men want to date a transitioning ->-bleeped-<-! Thank you, though. Hehe!

[rurustar]

well i have one  it  helped me alot in  many ways

[Rachel Bellefountaine]

I had a "drag queen" facebook account before I came out, then actually switched over the name and gender on my main account a little while before I officially came out, to ease people into the knowledge that I was trans. Then when I came out and went full time, I revamped my profile info to better reflect the real me.

[EmilyElizabeth]

Both of my FTM friends have male Facebooks and I would really like to make a female one for myself, but I unfortunately really don't have any female pictures of myself.  I have, however, removed the gender "Male" from my page because I wanted to stop blatantly lying to all my friends.  Hopefully that's subtle enough.

[Michael Joseph]

One day I changed my Fb name from my birthname to my my name now, and my gender from no answer to male. a couple people i hadnt seen in a while asked me about it, but that was it. im glad i did it.

[MarinaM]

I'm all woman online.

The old stuff is completely gone now. Totally awesome.