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May 30, 2007

i'm kenyatta cheese. who the hell are you? - part 3.

Facebook doesn't think I'm for real:

I tried registering a couple of times and got an error message suggesting that "kenyatta cheese" wasn't a "legitimate name."

Hooray for ethnocentrism!

While the comedy inherent in having a last name like "Cheese" makes this particular instance of q=facebook+%22legitimate+name%22 really funny, I can see how someone telling you that your real name isn't legit can be yet another way of making you feel left out.

update: In the time since I posted this entry, Facebook wrote back and hand-processed my registration for me. Thanks. Here's hoping that you don't have to hand-register the rather large portion of the world without western names.

Posted by yatta at May 30, 2007 5:05 PM