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Originally posted by breath
You can set to not show your contact information, you can even set to show them to "Just me".
True, but contact information doesn't include your name. Even when you set 'Contact information' to 'Just me' your full name will still be shown to all your friends (or worse).
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Originally posted by breath
put a blank space in your last name as you said
Again, that's not the point. Once people sign in to the new Messenger it is already too late. Their real name is shown to all their contacts, privacy broken. The user should be asked if it is ok to show their real name to their contacts
before anything happens.
The only setting which affects showing your name in some way is 'Who can find me and see my profile' and this one can't be set to 'Just me' or 'Some friends (except limited access)'. This setting will hide your entire profile from the public.
![[Image: who-can-find-me-and-see-my-profile.png]](http://rnd.menthix.net/mpl_screens/who-can-find-me-and-see-my-profile.png)
But even then all your friends can still see your full name, so it still didn't fix the problem.
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Originally posted by breath
The first thing that appears when you log in the new messenger is the status with your name
At which point your privacy is already breached since all your contacts can see that too.
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Originally posted by breath
as far as i can hide it
You can't. All you can do is fill in false information.
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Originally posted by breath
in other social networks
Other social networks which publish your real name did that since they started. I was aware of it when I created my account. Windows Live changed their policy in a way that it decreases privacy compared to what I signed up for. Another company which did exactly that recently is Facebook, they got a lot of heat from the media, some people deleted their profiles because of it, someone created a 'quit facebook day', and eventually Facebook was forced to respond and revert certain changes. These things are not just an annoyance, it is a privacy issue.
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Originally posted by ICQ
im liking Trillian even more than i ever have seeing this load of crap from Microsoft
Ironically using Trillian you will still show up with your real name to your contacts using Messenger 2010. Most people probably won't even be aware of that until one of their contacts tells them.
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