# Add names to our Plex users **URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-names-to-our-plex-users/625917 **Category:** Feature Suggestions **Created:** [August 21, 2020, 8:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-names-to-our-plex-users/625917 "2020-08-21T20:36:49Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H) #### Post date: [August 21, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-names-to-our-plex-users/625917/2 "2020-08-21T20:45:17Z")
There’s already a pretty popular thread on that very same suggestion: > [@\[Implemented\] Alias instead of plex.tv usernames](https://forums.plex.tv/t/alias-instead-of-plex-tv-usernames/83502): > > I guess this has always been the case but I never noticed before.  The name PMS shows is the plex.tv username.  For security reasons I had kept my plex.tv username as my email to make it harder for someone to hack my account by guessing an easier to use username.  Now with fast user switching I created managed users for my family which has a nice friendly name, but my email sticks out like a sore thumb.  I can change my username in plex.tv to show a friendlier name but that would bring up the se… Please use the search before posting duplicate requests. This will help avoiding suggestions distracting votes from each other. Therefore I’ll close this one so everybody who voted here can vote in the main suggestion. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-names-to-our-plex-users/625917)._