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Poll: Do you use your real name in your ProZ.com profile? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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Both my real (shortened)* name and my business name.
* Portuguese people tend to have very long full names
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| Yes, why not? | Jul 13, 2014 |
Fortunately my real name is very short.
I never considered not using my real name.
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 01:34
Spanish to English
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Yes-ish. It's my real name with some letters missing. Otherwise it'd be too long for my purposes.
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Eleonora Chyc 
United Kingdom
Local time: 00:34
Russian to Ukrainian
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Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 00:34
Member (2010)
French to English
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shortened form of my real name
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| Yes, shortened | Jul 13, 2014 |
but I use pen names sometimes for some other purposes.
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Julian Holmes
Japan
Local time: 08:34
Member (2011)
Japanese to English
This is me. I am an open book - this is what you get. 
Mind you, pssst. I do have some 007 codenames so that I can translate incognito when I go on wet ops. Don't tell anyone! 
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Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 01:34
Member (2009)
English to German
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Since Thayenga is also my real (awarded) name, I am using my real name here, although it's not the name stated in my passport.
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Erzsébet Czopyk
Hungary
Local time: 01:34
Member (2006)
Russian to Hungarian
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I never considered not using my real name anywhere.
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I'm Triston (though everyone calls me Tristón) and my wife and colleague is Gaby.
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Juan Jacob
Mexico
Local time: 17:34
French to Spanish
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Never considered otherwise, and because I like it very much.
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I prefer not to use my full name because I am opinionated, often for good reasons, and don't mind to share.
But the www does not forget so easily. Who knows when someone will feed words back at you years down the road to discredit you, try to drive you nuts, or who knows what other kind of BS.
Anyways, I don't think it helped much.
Speak your mind!
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I've had some very stupid comments and disagrees on Kudos over the years that could reflect badly on me
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| Yes - it's good for business | Jul 15, 2014 |
While many of us have business names for tax purposes, I believe that everyone, including both colleagues and clients, feels more at ease connecting with a real name (shortened is OK) and a real photo to match. It's human to want to do business with another human being, not an unidentifiable "username," and and not an avatar.
If someone wants to hide behind a username for the excuse to rant, then my suggestion is to clean up the act. Only the ranter is interested in his/her rants; n... See more While many of us have business names for tax purposes, I believe that everyone, including both colleagues and clients, feels more at ease connecting with a real name (shortened is OK) and a real photo to match. It's human to want to do business with another human being, not an unidentifiable "username," and and not an avatar.
If someone wants to hide behind a username for the excuse to rant, then my suggestion is to clean up the act. Only the ranter is interested in his/her rants; no one else cares. ▲ Collapse
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