Why change usernames? [If you have, feel free to say why!]

Ha ha 😄

I joined 2 peas in 2001 or 2002! I didn’t post much but I lurked. After my divorce I stopped scrapbooking for a few years. When I came to log back on to buy new supplies I’d forgotten my user name so started again with a new one. Years later when I got a new iPad I had forgotten my password. Technology having improved by then, when I sent to 2 peas for a reminder I received 4 accounts with 4 different user names that I’d registered, with the one email account, over the first few years ( purely due to forgetting my user names, I didn’t post enough to need to change my name for any other reason!) With 4 names to choose from I picked the one that was the easiest to remember and I’ve stuck with it ever since!

I was originally Krispyscrap. Changed it after a couple of years on the board because I was no longer scrapping, and because I realized that while I read it as krispy-scrap, others saw krispy's crap. 😂

That was many years ago.

I’ve thought about changing mine, only because it’s so dang long! (What I was thinking I don’t know!!).

But I’m sure that if I did, I’d be accused of trying to hide.


I’m the same pea name I have always been since Day 1 on refupeas.

I have wondered if I’m stupid to be so obvious on this board, and I’ve written some things that would make me cringe if people IRL read them, but I’m okay with that. I don’t change my name and especially avatar because I assume that’s how people recognize me here. We may not know each other personally, but we build relationships here and past interactions are how that works. If I don’t recognize an old friend or foe it’s hard to continue building that relationship.

You could change yours to PCA. The people who interact with you regularly would know it’s you. The trouble is, if we wanted to tag you, we’d still have to type it all out.

Ever since a normally very nice Pea attributed a not very nice meaning to my original name, I've been thinking about changing it. I finally got around to doing it. That's it. Nothing odd or creepster about it.
It's not a secret, I'm not hiding it... the original is in my profile.

What IS creepy and odd is telling someone not to talk to you then starting cryptic chicken shit, passive aggressive posts like this about them, attributing creepy and odd motives to something completely innocent & supposedly having them blocked, yet knowing they've changed their name. 

I do the same thing. Then it's like oh yeah, that makes more sense now.

Yep It’s been years but it still makes me both laugh and blush when I think about it!