Can you refer someone to hubpages without them knowing your username?

I think what you are really looking for is a way to refer your Dad to HubPages itself and not to your own profile, but you still want to get credit for the referral if he signs up.

Here's how to do that... Scroll down to the bottom on any page and click the "learning center" link. Once there, scroll down to the bottom of that page and click the "link to this page" link. It will give you a URL to the learning center with your own Referral Tracker, which is not recognizable as you in any way.

Send him that URL in an email and tell him to check it out. There is a great video there that will tell him all about it and peak his interest.

Because I write about some things that I'm okay for strangers to read, because I hope it helps people, but don't want my Dad to read.

Like my hub about teenage suicide, which includes my own personal experiences and what I was thinking.

Even though it doesn't paint him in an unflattering light or anything, I would feel very invaded if he read that... it would be like him reading my diary.

I agree with agvulpes on this one. I don't know you or your dad obviously and haven't gone through your hubs to see what you might want to be keeping from him or what might be difficult for you to share etc but that's your business so I can appreciate that. I do think it's a good idea you have to help enrich your dad's life a little in this way as I believe retirement can be a difficult life transition for some.

I'd imagine it might be even more helpful and enjoyable to be openly sharing your participation in this type of community with him though. I take it that's not you in your profile pic or surely you'd run the risk of your dad bumping into you even if someone else refers him for you - unless you plan changing it of course.

I'm not sure if hubpages allow you to have more than 1 a/c if they do you could create another and ensure you camouflage your current one so your dad doesn't discover your existing articles (or can't attribute them to you) - again I think openess would be the best in the long run. Your other option is to join somewhere similar where you have a blank slate so to speak and invite your dad there.

Just read your response after writing my comment -i can appreciate how you feel there.

P.S. Oh you can't change your username so even with a new avatar the 'Doctor Kristy' would obviously stand out to him if perchance he came across you on hubpages.

While the other two make good points, I can see why you do not want to share everything with your father. I have been through a number of ordeals that I am not ready to share with certain friends and family members. In some cases, because they have shown time and again that they are not ready for some of the things I have to say.

Can you not simply give him the hubpages. Com url?

Alternately, you could create an account with the express purpose of giving him an invite. You can then use or discard said account.

Yes you can without him knowing your user ID on HP. Do one of two things.

(1) Create a referral link and email it to him directing him to hubpages tour page. Mentioning that you think he might find that useful which is why your forwarding the info to him.

(2) Create a profile for him on HP and send it to him saying thought you might like this dad. That's simple.

My advise, to you is don't keep it a secret from your Dad. If you feel that what you write is good enough to be read by 'millions' of people around the world, why would it not be good enough to be read by your Dad? You may well be surprised at the response you get!

:).

Yes you can only do this when someone do not know your email add and your identity is your pen name only...because in referring someone to the Hubpages it needs an email address...

The way I see it, if you wrote it, no matter what it is about, it's art. They should appreciate it either way. I've written and drawn several things that I would classify inappropriate to show my family, but I do, because it is an art form, a way of expressing yourself.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.