This is an extension of the feature suggestion Alternate profile pictures #406
Allowing users to have granular control of how they present themselves
to different groups of contacts and chats, in such a way that you can
choose a profile picture and display name that will be seen only by a
specific group, multiple groups, contact, multiple contacts. apart from
your default standard profile.
This feature would be a great help at separating how you present
yourself across different users, be it friends, family, work, and other
entities.
The idea would be for your username, phone number and user ID to remain the same, what changes is your presentation, so I don't see searching affected too much, after all, the folk who know you with a certain identity will search for you with that identity in mind, and in the case of changing said identity, search could perhaps also search for you with a history of different identities in mind as well, tied up to privacy settings
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Average people have no idea what the ID is or what the number of X person is, it sounds a good idea but I don't see it as something very useful. It would just complicate things and bring more problems for things like Bot's and problems for users who see X name and other users who see X and you never know which is which.
I do not see that it has a very good function 🤔
I don't think it would complicate anything! It would be one of those features that you just use or not. And if someone else use it, you would only notice that user has changed it's avatar or has a different avatar in private messaging.
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It would just complicate things and bring more problems for things like Bot's and problems for users who see X name and other users who see X and you never know which is which.
I do not see that it has a very good function 🤔