How did you transition your online presence? How did it go? What would you do differently?

I can't give a whole lot of advice on that because I have very little online presence. No Facebook, twitter etc. My roommate who is F to M. Does though and I think he came out online all at once but the thing was most people he talked to online he knew in person so they already knew about his transition. I would say maybe talk to your online friends in private first and then go from there. Sorry I don't have better advice. I think I'm the last person on earth not involved in social media.

I honestly don't know. It's daunting. I might just do it. Good thing is most of the people I have on my facebook know me offline. I don't really add friends I don't know offline.

What WILL be challenging is my old school mates from the old country. I went to an all boys school and there's much trans phobia and homophobia there. But acceptance is growing so there is hope.

I got off Facebook three or so years ago with all of the drama with friends and family sorry no help

Quote from: Njdetashley on September 13, 2014, 10:43:18 AM
How did you transition your online presence? How did it go? What would you do differently?

I opened a new Facebook account in my new name. I left a message in my old facebook account saying I'm not using the account anymore and to follow a link to find my new facebook name. That link pointed to a page where I explained I was transgender and what my new name was, and invited people to friend my new page.

A few weeks later, I sent email to the few friends from the old page who had not friended the new page with a text very similar to the link.

It went well. I wouldn't have done it any differently.

Quote from: suzifrommd on September 13, 2014, 03:27:35 PM
I opened a new Facebook account in my new name. I left a message in my old facebook account saying I'm not using the account anymore and to follow a link to find my new facebook name. That link pointed to a page where I explained I was transgender and what my new name was, and invited people to friend my new page.

A few weeks later, I sent email to the few friends from the old page who had not friended the new page with a text very similar to the link.

It went well. I wouldn't have done it any differently.

Exactly how I did it also. Great minds think alike, right Suzi? 

There's no much secret here but I'll give some Ideas 
Like our honeys said, Yeah, I think that create a new count with your "new identity" is one of the first things to do. Off course you can just change your actual count to reflect you from now on, but I don't like the idea. You can also keep the old count, and at the same time start a new one, in this way you can keep the two counts with two personalities each (I personally don't like much of this idea). If you do to keep the two accounts, you can keep you relationships relatively safe and choose who you want to know the another you.

Whatever you choose before, with your new account, you can select who you want to still be friend. You can invite person by person to your new account, you can do a post inviting whatever who wants to still be you friend, you can do both. Just be prepared for the possible reactions and even rejections. for example, I have, in my facebook, a lot of Christian friends, and the trans-phobia is very present, so I can't expect much acceptance from them, they are very likely to be lost friends. I don't think that I would receive aggression, but you must be prepared. (I still have to get out of the closet, just to mention).

Well, after that, the rest of you online presence is just part of "be yourself", if you like to post cute things, do so, if you like to post articles, do too, post whatever you like to. It's a new presentation of you to the online social media, would be rather boring if you try to be someone that you are not in your new account. Thinking about that, now I realize why my facebook is so boring