2 devices/2 ppl sharing apple id on 1 computer-problems!?

My son and I share my Apple ID between his iTouch 4 and my iPhone 3GS.  After the IOS 5.0 update and the new feature of a texting ability on the iTouch to other i-devices over wifi, his texts show up as my name.  He's only texting me at this point, but will surely be texting his other 11 year old friends who also have iTouch's.  I don't want my name showing up to his friends devices where it looks like I'm the one texting them.  I know it has to be an issue of us sharing the account, but is there a way to by-pass this while still allowing us to share the same music, apps, etc?  I opened up an email account for him that I will monitor, added it to his device, hoping that would work, but unfortunately it doesn't.  Any help you're able to provide would be greatly appreciated.  Also, anyway to prevent the messages from appearing twice on our devices?  If not, I can live with that! 
Sorry if I submitted this to the incorrect forum.

On your son's iPod Touch only use your Apple ID for iTunes Store and App Store log-ins and purchases. That way you will be able to continue to share those things. Create a new Apple ID for your son and use that for iCloud services. Make sure you log-in to his Apple ID for iCloud on his iPod Touch.

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