# \[request\] 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:** 1 **Showing post:** 6
### 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: [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… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/request-personal-nicknames-for-users/98721)._