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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[fatoudust.livejournal.com]

Heh. My big deal was that I kept my middle name as well as my maiden when I got married. I actually intended to go Firstname Middlename Husbandsname, but my parents got upset (elopement) because it felt to them like I was trying to cut them out entirely by losing my maiden name. I wasn't; my middle name was my grandmother's name, and I loved it very much and didn't want to lose it. So I took all four names and haven't regretted it.

However on Facebook I don't even use my proper last name, because I am a paranoid freak like that.