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My account was disabled because I used WolfDaddy as my "real" name for, like, ever and then they apparently decided that was a no-no, so now I can't log into my account. Whateva.
We've had a lot of fun coming up with totally disgusting and hilarious Facebook names that somehow are allowed. Like "dickpie." It's still available, so hurry!
I was tempted to grab johnkennethfisher, like I did with gmail. I have absolutely nothing against that metafilter user, but the name has always cracked me up. I eventually emailed him and gave him the rights, at least. I think he was a bit freaked out.
Wait, so you can register a pseudonym with them now? You don't have to give real information? Or do you have to have a real name behind it, so the marketers to whom facebook sell all your info know yet another level of everything about their users?
Sorry, I'm sure if I was a registered facebook user I'd be able to see what the link is all about, but I'm trapped in enough machines as it is. Name, rank serial number, blood type, collar size, sexual history, no thanks.
I'd resist the urge to tie my online handle to my real name in a place as public as facebook, but then again, I'm too paranoid to even join in the first place.
I AM NOT A CONSUMER! I AM A HUMAN BEING! I... AM... A MAN!
Used my real name, too. Facebook doesn't bother me much because I've always kept a profile there that I wouldn't mind anyone knowing my real name (including potential employers) seeing. Even my photo is a boring, conservative headshot. Friends have added a couple of others, but nothing remotely embarrassing. Having a hyphenated and thereby almost unique name gives a person a sort of built-in wariness about what they'll allow to be linked to them but also a sense of resignation that if someone wants to find you, they will, I guess.
Every single time I'm reminded of how common my name is (not John Smith common, but pretty common), I'm surprised. I got longformoffirstnamelastname, though, which is okay, I guess, though I don't know that I'll ever use it for anything.
Outside of Myspace users, it seems like most less tech-savvy folks are about as comfortable with 'type my name in the Facebook search bar' than they are with 'go to http://facebook.com/myname.'
Ah, multiple iterations of Noscript tweaks and I'm through the captcha. I do know I won't be able to sign up for any version of my name right away. But, what now?
I also felt bizarrely tempted to join facebook and grab my url, since there are about thirty people on there with my real name and no-one's got it yet.
There are roughly a dozen Facebook users under my real name, and I can see all of us.
(Actually, though Facebook lists me under my chosen name complete with my preferred initial, it elides the initial on my user-side profile page. What the heck? Surely if it can display my preferred name to others, it can display it to me, right? What am I missing?)
OK, I guess I found the MeCha and MeFi groups, and I was happy to find my ex wasn't listed under my church back in Evanston. These tricky questions of netiquette.
Oh, I just logged in for the first time a coupla months, and evidently I'm wrong about that; Facebook must have rejected my initial, so I went without. (I'm positive I attempted to put in my display name --- I always use it.)
My first instinct was to just take my last name (which was available), but then I felt like that would be jerky to the other people with my last name on FB (they are all relatives). So, I did first initial and last name. No one else in my family has my first initial. Well, no one else on FB, anyway. There are a couple of little kids that may be irritated in about 10 years.
I'm guessing Obie Fernandez is a wee bit pissed off. Oh well, you snooze you looze.
I don't really use Facebook; I signed up because everyone else did (I'm such a follower). I've thought about deleting it, but once in a while there's a link to Facebook I want to follow and wouldn't be able to read it if I had an inactive account.
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