RIP girl_from_mars (name change)

[pne]

Strange, I was looking through some support requests and came across this one, which was answered by emmavescence but used Emma's well-known butterfly userpic. That caused me to look at that user's userinfo.

Apparently, girl_from_mars changed her name. Pity; the old one was a lot easier to spell :) (and besides, I like things to stay the same, and I'm sure lots of people knew her as girl_from_mars.

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[nik-w.livejournal.com]

I have Emma on my friends page, so I can give you a bit of an insight - "girl from mars" is a song by Ash - one she particularly liked when she started on LJ. She's decided, however, that she's outgrown the name and has been talking about changing it for a bit. Ideally, she wanted emma which had been inactive for a long time - however, it recently became active again, so that was out the window. She asked people to think of a new name for her, and she chose "emmavescence" as it was "a combination of effervesce and emma" (according to her friend that chose it). Personally, I wanted her to change it to g_f_m, as that was even easier to spell!:P The beauty of LJ renames is that you can still put girl_from_mars and it'll forward you to the right journal!

[pne.livejournal.com]

Ah! Thank you for that bit of background.

Interesting how emma has existed since 2000-01-08 but has only posted two journal entries, both of them last week.

I wonder what caused someone to come back to a dormant journal after three years.

(I think there are a bunch of Early Adopter journals lying fallow—and some of them have some choice usernames since the good ones tend to get taken first.)

[n-true.livejournal.com]

It also annoys me sometimes when people change their names... Like shinigaminoonna recently did.
I also prefer it when people don't change their icons every other day. I'm glad I have my Wummel-Knuffel and you have your Martin The Duckie. ;)

[pne.livejournal.com]

And then there are people who change their display name twice a week, such as calliste :)

(What do you call that thing that's not your username but the other, um, user name? The one that says "Andrew" for you and "Philip Newton" for me?)

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[n-true.livejournal.com]

"Der Name der das so in deinem LiveJournal oben drüber steht, da" ;)

[pne.livejournal.com]

"Nee, nicht der, der daneben, ja, genau der, du weißt schon"