facebook influencing naming conventions?

[flea]

Many married women I know have themselves listed on Facebook as Firstname Maidenname Lastname. In many cases that I know of, they use just Firstname Lastname in real life - including both socially and professionally - but use both last names on Facebook presumably to make it easier to connect with old friends from high school, etc.

Where do you stand? Do you think this Facebook naming practice will influence the way women change (or don't) their names upon marriage in the real world, too?

(Note, I didn't change my name on marrying, and never considered it. The kids have mr. flea's last name, and I didn't argue for mine or give them mine as a middle. Just the way it turned out for us. Myname MrFlea'sLastName would be pretty hilarious, based on sound, even if I had considered changing.)

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[haphazardmethod.livejournal.com]

Sorry, no help here -- I'm another unreliable outlier. We each kept our own names and Sci is Sci Mylastname Hislastname and Sys is Sys Hislastname Mylastname. No hyphens.