diff --git a/doc/Account-Basics.md b/doc/Account-Basics.md
index f03a488b50..975fd8fb76 100644
--- a/doc/Account-Basics.md
+++ b/doc/Account-Basics.md
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@ If you do not have an OpenID address or do not wish to use OpenID, leave this fi
 If you have an OpenID account elsewhere and wish to use it, enter the address into this field and click 'Register'.
 Friendica will attempt to extract as much information as possible from your OpenID provider and return to this page with those items already filled in.
 
-### Your Full Name
+### Your Display Name
 
-Please provide your full name **as you would like it to be displayed on this system**.
-Most people use their real name for this, but you're under no obligation to do so yourself.
+Please provide your display name **as you would like it to be displayed on this system**.
+Some people use their real name for this, but you're under no obligation to do so yourself.
 
 ### Email Address
 
diff --git a/doc/Settings.md b/doc/Settings.md
index 3ec2144e74..00c8be2c2e 100644
--- a/doc/Settings.md
+++ b/doc/Settings.md
@@ -77,11 +77,11 @@ Additionally to the setting in the admin panel, you can decide if registrations
 To enable invitation based registration, you have to set the `invitation_only` setting to `true` in the `system` section of the [config/local.config.php](/help/Config) file.
 If you want to use this method, the registration policy has to be set to either *open* or *requires approval*.
 
-#### Check Full Names
+#### Check Display Names
 
 You may find a lot of spammers trying to register on your site.
-During testing we discovered that since these registrations were automatic, the "Full Name" field was often set to just an account name with no space between first and last name.
-If you would like to support people with only one name as their full name, you may change this setting to true.
+During testing we discovered that since these registrations were automatic, the "Display Name" field was often set to just an account name with no space between first and last name.
+If you would like to support people with only one name as their display name, you can leave this setting set to false.
 Default is false.
 
 #### OpenID