"How can I change my name?"

I have heard that fucking question so many times. After the first hundred or so you can begin to die a little inside.

"No," I always thought. "You're asking the wrong fucking question!"

The correct question being, of course, "Can I?"

"No.", was, of course, the answer.

Now, much to my minimally mixed feelings of frustration on the subject, the answer is "Yes."

I don't have any real objection to people changing their usernames. It does, however, annoy me.

My annoyance not being a significant factor in the equation. People changing their usernames is, of course, quite their perrogative.

However.

In an online environment, such as dAmn, your username is often the only thing that people see of you. As such, when one gets to know a person on dAmn, the username becomes that person, at least in a sense. It's their online face.

I know "it's just a username", but if a face that you know and love suddenly doesn't exist, that's something you mourn.

People know and love you as that username, and you go and change it.

I think you lose something, there, and I think everyone else does, too.