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Originally posted by CookieRevised
To 'express yourself' you should use the personal message, not your display name.
Well maybe you and your friends/contacts use WLM differently from how I use it. I almost NEVER read my friends' personnel messages, but what I do see are their names when I start a convo with them.
Yes I definitely agree that there's that issue of privacy, but I'm sure the WLM team doesn't really care about that issue. To them, ALL your contacts are friends of yours, so they'd know your name already anyway. That's of course a dumb notion since people trade contacts online all the time.
But I think they dismissed this issue as being unimportant, or else they wouldn't have made such a huge change and removed display names. Thus, I tried to go at another angle when providing feedback, hoping they'd realise how important display names are.
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Originally posted by Chrono
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Originally posted by blackjack
Contacts keeping their Nickname but also showing the Real name (as it seems its very important for MS people, lol)
cookie did understand 
And you're still wrong. For me, i dont care really if people see my real name, but it's understandable that someone may not want you to know his real name. Hence the "hover to see real name" doesnt work that well
i still like your idea better than how it is now, but as cookie said, it's not a proper solution
Yes, the idea isn't a solution, but it is a step forward. Currently, there are sliders on your profile settings page that let you set who you want to be able to see your details. If they added "Name" there and allowed us to set it to "No one" or something like that, that'd be fine.
On top of that, bring back display names and implement blackjack's solution. In that case, people who still want others to see their names can set that to be so in their settings page, and when others mouseover his contact, they'll see it. For those who set it otherwise, their name will still be nicely hidden.
PROBLEM SOLVED. MICROSOFT, DO THIS NOW.
