# \[request\] personal "nicknames" for users
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/request-personal-nicknames-for-users/98721
**Category:** Feature Suggestions
**Created:** [April 2, 2015, 2:11am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/request-personal-nicknames-for-users/98721 "2015-04-02T02:11:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@horseinmotion](https://forums.plex.tv/u/horseinmotion)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2015, 2:11am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/request-personal-nicknames-for-users/98721/1 "2015-04-02T02:11:15Z")
so, i understand we
want our friends to have
their own plex accounts
so they can feed barkley
+such, but it’d be nice
if we could tag them
on our side, so when
my friend susie signs
up with plex
account “jfmchjfntbtvd”,
i can nickname tag
her “susie,” instead of
scratching my head
for what’s what.
[our own side avatar
being nice, also.]
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### Author:  [@cayars](https://forums.plex.tv/u/cayars)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2015, 10:48am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/request-personal-nicknames-for-users/98721/2 "2015-04-03T10:48:47Z")
Elan has already mentioned this is on their radar and will most likely be included in an upcoming release at some point.
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### Author:  [@horseinmotion](https://forums.plex.tv/u/horseinmotion)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2015, 4:11am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/request-personal-nicknames-for-users/98721/3 "2015-04-09T04:11:24Z")
that’s fantastic.
where did he say that?
or did i miss it?
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### Author:  [@aeonx](https://forums.plex.tv/u/aeonx)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2015, 11:02am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/request-personal-nicknames-for-users/98721/4 "2015-04-09T11:02:30Z")
Interesting formatting.
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### Author:  [@anon18523487](https://forums.plex.tv/u/anon18523487)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2015, 5:14pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/request-personal-nicknames-for-users/98721/5 "2015-04-09T17:14:56Z")
A feature request already exists for this.
[https://forums.plex.tv/topic/128802-feature-request-alias-instead-of-plextv-usernames/](https://forums.plex.tv/topic/128802-feature-request-alias-instead-of-plextv-usernames/)
Locking this topic to avoid splitting votes.
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### Author:  [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2021, 11:40pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/request-personal-nicknames-for-users/98721/6 "2021-03-06T23:40:21Z")
Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate
> [@\[Implemented\] 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…
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### Author:  [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2021, 12:46am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/request-personal-nicknames-for-users/98721/7 "2021-06-10T00:46:04Z")