I've been around here for a few months with another account. I got to thinking about my account and that if I need to come vent about my support system, it may be a bit too easy for them to find me, should they decide to come out here to the family forum or are looking for recipes or something. Would it be bad etiquette to switch my user name to this one?

I don't think so. I purposely went with a generic name as to not identify myself for that very reason.

I'm not trying to do anything off side, I just want to be able to speak freely about my experiences with people who have been through it!

Yeah that's what I was thinking too... I'm usually pretty open on the internet... but this is definitely different

I don't see a problem. I have another ID but I can't remember what it is anymore? I set it up when I wanted to access BP on my Kindle a few years ago.

I thinks its fine, but stick with one. You know you can change your username on your first account, too, right? I did that because my first one was my actual name and I decided I wanted more privacy....and then I put my face on my profile, lol!

My husband figured out my user name by googling symptoms I was having post op. After 2 or 3 posts where this username matched my exact symptoms he was finally like "are you hopeandagony?"...lol

My reason for going with an alias was because I didn't anyone I know to read my real weight! But then I decided that my skinny friends weren't likely to be trolling a Bariatric site and that I have to face the weight in order to lose it. So I used a name that my kids call me all the time. Now I added my real photo so it hardly matters.