# Nickname Friends / Users
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/nickname-friends-users/209302
**Category:** Feature Suggestions
**Created:** [October 7, 2017, 11:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/nickname-friends-users/209302 "2017-10-07T23:23:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@RepubliCommando](https://forums.plex.tv/u/RepubliCommando)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2017, 11:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/nickname-friends-users/209302/1 "2017-10-07T23:23:27Z")
You can edit restrictions and libraries for the users and invite friends but you cannot nickname them?
It would be sooo useful to be able to identify users based on nickname rather than their email address.
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### Author:  [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2017, 11:24pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/nickname-friends-users/209302/2 "2017-10-07T23:24:21Z")
duplicate feature request
> [@\[Implemented\] Alias instead of plex.tv usernames](https://forums.plex.tv/t/alias-instead-of-plex-tv-usernames/83502/1):
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> 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…
closing
Please respect the rules for this subforum
- **Search** first if the request has already been posted before. The goal is to collect the votes for a particular feature in one thread - not to scatter them around.
- Please only [one feature per post](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/46128/rules-for-this-forum-inc-how-to-vote#top "one feature per post")
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### Author:  [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2018, 9:40pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/nickname-friends-users/209302/3 "2018-11-25T21:40:49Z")