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This includes:</p> <ul> <li>User reviews</li> <li>Lists</li> <li>Your Watchlist</li> <li>Ratings<br><br></li> </ul> <p>Your User ID also appears on <a href="https://www.imdb.com/activity?ref_=helpms_ph_myp_usernaming">Your Activity page</a> and provides you with a consistent way to be represented across IMDb. </p> <p>You can change your User ID by visiting the <a href="https://www.imdb.com/registration/changeuserid?ref_=helpms_ph_myp_usernaming">Change your User ID page</a> in the Account Settings section.</p> <p>You can also update the text shown in the <a href="https://www.imdb.com/activity/changedescription?ref_=helpms_ph_myp_usernaming">description field </a>of Your Activity page. You may decide to do this if you want to share information with others on IMDb, (<em>e.g., social media links)</em>.<a id="real"></a></p> <hr> <h2><strong>Real Name</strong></h2> <p>Everyone with an IMDb account also has a private contact name (real name). This appears <strong>only in your view</strong>, in the navigation bar in the upper right of every IMDb page. Your real name is used for communication with customer service and emails you receive from IMDb.<a id="cont"></a></p> <hr> <h2><strong>Contributions</strong></h2> <p>Your User ID is used internally to identify your contributions to IMDb. Contributions are always anonymous with these exceptions:</p> <ul> <li>You can, if you choose to, include a ‘by’ line on mini-bios and plots submitted through the main submission interface (clicking ‘Edit page’ on title and name pages on <a href="https://www.imdb.com?ref_=helpms_ph_myp_usernaming">www.imdb.com</a> or <a href="https://pro.imdb.com?ref_=helpms_ph_myp_usernaming">pro.imdb.com</a>)</li> <li>For plots submitted via mobile, you can choose between ‘<em>Anonymous</em>’, ‘<em>real name</em>,’ or ‘<em>UserID</em>’<br><a id="name"></a><br></li> </ul> <hr> <h2><strong>IMDb name pages</strong></h2> <p>If you are an entertainment industry professional with credits listed in IMDb you may have an IMDb name page. 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