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I Am Mark Zuckerberg

1286 points by jb1991 1y ago

zeroq 1y ago
Reminds me of CV lcamtuf published on his website shortly after leaving Google. A single page that mainly said: "my name is Zalewski, yes, that Zalewski".
Fire-Dragon-DoL 1y ago
He should be glad to be a lawyer, otherwise he might have spent so much money dealing with the name lol
gtsop 1y ago
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stefaniedaene 1y ago
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koolala 1y ago
it is pretty funny
- lukan 1y ago
  Mostly "I routinely receive death threats and harassment on the Messenger app directed to the "other" Mark Zuckerberg"
  - koolala 1y ago
    you'd hope they would notice their mistake before its too late
chao- 1y ago
The best bit: >Like I said, I don't wish Mark E. Zuckerberg any ill will at all. I hope the best for him, but let me tell you this: I will rule the search for "Mark Zuckerberg bankruptcy". And if he does fall upon difficult financial times, and happens to be in Indiana, I will gladly handle his case in honor of our eponymy. According to the Algorithm Lords of my particular filter bubble, he does indeed rule the search results for "Mark Zuckerberg bankruptcy".
geoffbp 1y ago
I wonder if he’s ever had anything positive happen because of it. That list looks like a PITA :)
- XenophileJKO 1y ago
  The "rich" Mark Zuckerburg should give him some compensation for the hassle. That would be right thing to do.
  - burnt-resistor 1y ago
    Answer the question: What would an asshole do? They would buy up their neighbors' houses to make an unapproved mega compound, buy up ancestral Hawaiian land to block communal land access, and do unlicensed shit without permits making their remaining neighbors miserable. So what is right by virtue is unlikely to happen because almost all billionaires are legitimized criminal aristocrats subject to a different set of rules than average or poor people who are killed in the street for selling loose cigarettes like Eric Garner.
    - drstewart 1y ago
      Okay
    - fortran77 1y ago
      Cigarettes kill. Selling loosies to kids kills.
  - lpln3452 1y ago
    No. The individuals genuinely at fault here are 1) those who inflict harm on others, considering that being wealthy or disliked does not justify actions such as death threats 2) those who target the wrong person simply due to a shared name. Any discussion of compensation should be directed at them.
    - makeitdouble 1y ago
      > 2) those who target the wrong person simply due to a shared name. In this case that includes the other Zuck's company. He should at least do something about that.
mat0 1y ago
Good for you, Mark! I had a nice chuckle. On a more serious note, I really feel for the people that cannot get any kind of support and try to get some help by messaging "the owner" of the social network they are in. With big companies, you used to be able to get someone to talk to you when you had a problem. Not anymore. The best you can get is a well trained LLM
- debtta 1y ago
  I mean another theory is that those people are misguided and vexatious, and that this correlates with them not actually checking which Mark Zuckerberg they are sending their urgent complaint email to.
- Propelloni 1y ago
  > Good for you, Mark! I had a nice chuckle. Me too! Mark S. Zuckerberg seems to be a relaxed guy with a good sense of humor. Very likeable presentation!
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- dan-robertson 1y ago
  What do you think happens today if you mail a letter addressed to the CEO of a big company (or their office)?
  - glenneroo 1y ago
    Please try... for science... and write about it and post here referencing this discussion. Thanks! :)
    - toast0 1y ago
      Depends on the company. Mail to the CEO is a well known customer support escalation path. For companies that do generally support their customers, usually it gets you into an 'executive support' queue with people who are empowered to understand and solve problems that are mostly solvable --- you should be able to get money things made right, but don't expect product changes (but it can happen). For companies that don't support their customers, it gets overwhelmed and may get dumped into the same usual support channels where reps aren't empowered to get anything done.
lifthrasiir 1y ago
Similar case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_v._Nissan_Computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_v._Nissan_Comput...
- rzzzt 1y ago
  Close approximation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft (this was not Mike from "Dirty Jobs" but a different person)
  - lifthrasiir 1y ago
    Yeah, but in this case MikeRoweSoft.com redirects to microsoft.com after the settlement. Uzi Nissan was able to keep his domain to this day, even after his death in 2020.
  - swiftcoder 1y ago
    Man, litigating versus a 12 year old boy has got to be the easiest job in the business - "Will you settle for an Xbox and a bundle of games?"
    - dataflow 1y ago
      12th grade, not 12 years old.
      - onionisafruit 1y ago
        The Xbox offer still stands Edit: I replied before I read the wikipedia link and learned he literally settled for an xbox.
    - austinjp 1y ago
      Huh, having checked the wikipedia link (the kid was 17 not 12), that's exactly what happened!
- cyberax 1y ago
makeitdouble 1y ago
On the "fake name" thing: I felt guilty reading it, as in many past companies "Mark Zuckerberg" (and Bill Gates, and Tim Apple, Elon Musk etc) was indeed often used as a placeholder for test accounts and test data, and it never crossed my mind that we were basically training ourself to also treat a "Mark Zuckerberg" on our service as an account that escaped the sandbox or some other attack on the service.
- whatsupdog 1y ago
  Lol, it's Tim Cook, Mr. President.
  - f4c39012 1y ago
    Tim Apple is an awesome mnemonic
  - makeitdouble 1y ago
    It was kinda funny from across the pond, the first time around. Putin horse riding topless was also a funny meme. Looking back at that period is depressing af.
- rzzzt 1y ago
  Hopefully there aren't too many people with the name "First Last" running around.
  - makeitdouble 1y ago
    It was tricky to use too literal names, as they're basically the placeholders in the input forms for instance, or the translations keys. To defend a bit the choice for somewhat realistic names, there is a gestalt decomposition where you're looking through "First name" first names for hundreds of lines. Same for Lorum ipsums, designers' reaction are completely different when the page looks somewhat realistic and isn't just a blatant test.
jowea 1y ago
This is why we should replace names with uuids.
- agnishom 1y ago
  At the very least names should be unique strings, preferably pronouncable
  - prashantsengar 1y ago
    Correct horse battery staple
    - cheschire 1y ago
      “That’s amazing! I’ve got the same combination on my luggage!”
  - mFixman 1y ago
    You need to have a restricted set of allowed syllables to prevent attackers from having names with similar pronounciation to common ones. In unique name world I would totally for a scammer telling me "Hello, my name is Marck Zuckaberg, give me all your data".
  - Symbiote 1y ago
    In The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin, the anarchists have names assigned at birth by a computer, guaranteed to be unique. They are gender-neutral (I think their artificial language doesn't have the possibility for gendered names) and monomial. (I highly recommend reading the book, it's one of my favourite novels.)
    - vintermann 1y ago
      They are not guaranteed to be unique as I recall, at one point the main character gets in a fight with a guy who demanded he change his name since he was tired of getting confused. Ursula Le Guin didn't sugarcoat anarchism, at least, though I still think the depiction of the main planet system is a lot more depressingly plausible.
avestura 1y ago
Some names are problematic, like this one. Some others are lucky [1] (I know it's a joke) [1] https://ifunny.co/picture/go-gle-most-popular-actor-in-video-games-qa-images-A2QKwtcK9 https://ifunny.co/picture/go-gle-most-popular-actor-in-video...
- ivolimmen 1y ago
  Even with people that are not famous it can be difficult. My wife knows three people with the same name. So when I ask with whom are you going out she needs to add the city to make me understand.
  - lazide 1y ago
    Part of why in many times, ‘of x’ was a common ‘surname’. Also, profession - basically ‘Bob the Smith’, ‘John the Baker’, etc. A lot of places (India, Brazil) still use one of your parents on official documents to disambiguate (Bob Smith, son of John (or Jill) Smith from Smithville).
mjd 1y ago
There's a lawyer in Philadelphia named Justin Bieber. I'm not sure which would be worse.
- defraudbah 1y ago
  haha, you are in trouble, i am calling justin bieber!
- AmbroseBierce 1y ago
  The data is pretty clear, Justin Bieber, specially in February 2011 (but improving since) https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F06w2sn5,%2Fm%2F086dny&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...
- tuzemec 1y ago
  Who is Justice Beaver? --- Sorry, an old joke from The Office and I couldn't resits...
- wslh 1y ago
  If I were him, I would start singing and sending my music as a side project.
- incanus77 1y ago
  I know the guy who had Twitter/X @Justin (also my name) early on and he would constantly get mentions for “@Justin Bieber” because people didn’t understand the space.
- swyx 1y ago
  there's several dudes named Jeffrey Epsteins out there who i assure you have far more negative associations
pinkmuffinere 1y ago
Having the same name as a famous person seems like a decent marketing benefit. And funnily enough, that’s achievable with some paperwork in many areas of the world! I wonder how/if this interacts with trademark (or other?) law. Can I change my name to Sundar Pichai? If so, then why haven’t a bunch of techbro founders done that already?
- andsoitis 1y ago
  > Can I change my name to Sundar Pichai? If so, then why haven’t a bunch of techbro founders done that already? Yes, you can. But it’d be stupid.
jopsen 1y ago
Sometimes your life would be easier if you just changed your name.
- ncr100 1y ago
  It's unjust.
  - Freak_NL 1y ago
    Sure, but if tomorrow some dude with the same name as me decides to go on a killing spree, or sexually assault a toddler, I'd change my name. Just or unjust. I'd have to change my email domain too though, so that would suck, but at least I could put up a website there explaining my new name and that I am not the now world famous terrorist who shot up a kindergarden/fondled the pope/ate a baby.
    - ncr100 1y ago
      I see - that would suck. "You're not related to THE Adolf Hitler .. (I hope?)" -hypothetical conversation [pope fondling - just getting closer to God]
- zero_shift 1y ago
  "Why should I? He's the one who sucks"
hunterpayne 1y ago
He could easily use his middle name or go by Marcus. Just saying...sounds terrible having to deal with all the insanity.
- awestroke 1y ago
  I wouldn't want to humiliate myself by letting The Zuck prevent me from using my own name
- debtta 1y ago
  Why should I change my name? He's the one that sucks.
kristopolous 1y ago
ctrl+u this ... there's some nice parts commented out
- Freak_NL 1y ago
  That lost bit of sample HTML below the body is cute too: <a href="https://www.example.com" target="_blank">Link Text</a> It gives the site an artisanal feel.
burnt-resistor 1y ago
Michael Bolton: https://youtu.be/WjZKVKxZcAo https://youtu.be/WjZKVKxZcAo
- stillworks 1y ago
  I celebrate the guy's entire catalog.
llamasushi 1y ago
Lol, this reminds me of a funny story. I had a lawyer whose name was Jim Halpert. Turns out he was the very Jim who was inspired his namesake on the office. Asked him about it once. His reply? "Hey, it's been great for getting clients." =) He was also very much like Jim on the show. Fun times.
- Biganon 1y ago
  Did he look at the camera after replying?
- firefax 1y ago
  I've heard of this guy, but not met him. My CEO told me that I remind them of Jim Halpert and I was like "Really? The guy from the Office? I always pictured myself as more of a Creed"[1], which made them bust out laughing and declare "That's such a Jim thing to say" and wander off after explaining that it's based on a real person. It made me wonder how many of those characters are based on real people, since they themselves reminded me of another character I'll omit for privacy's sake... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeZ6a1A0-ow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeZ6a1A0-ow
piker 1y ago
Interesting look into what Zuck and other mega celebrities experience day to day. I'm sure Zuck and others of a certain stature have many protection layers, but surely some things slip through and it's interesting to consider those just a tier lower that can't afford all of the security, etc. Reminds me of the Bill Murray quote: "I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it."
- unyttigfjelltol 1y ago
  The website security model breaks down when people constantly try to enter your password. The currently model assumes good behavior by most people most of the time in order for basic web services to function. Seems like an obvious vulnerability to malicious activity.
- makeitdouble 1y ago
  Yes. Outside of the sheer security, people telling rich people they're fake will just warrant a cute condescending laugh and they go on with their life, while the guy here is basically denied his identity.
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y ago
  With the Internet, you can now be famous, without being rich. Many of the truly rich people are quite anonymous. The billionaires you read about are really just the tip of the iceberg.
  - lordnacho 1y ago
    Plus fame minus rich is probably not great. You can get a lot of unwanted attention that you can't avoid by moving or hiring guards.
    - avhception 1y ago
      Related phenomenon: So-called "Lolcows". Over here in Germany, we have the infamous case of "Drachenlord", a Youtuber that had a lot of negative interactions with his "fanbase" to the point that one could argue he was dependent on being harassed.
mjd 1y ago
Dennis Ritchie (co-inventor of the C programming language) had a page on his personal web site called “My other lives” with a list of other Dennis Ritchies. “Outside of my main professional career, I have accumulated other WWW-recorded accomplishments and have other interests. Generally I pursue these interests using separate mail addresses, SS#, and DNA.” It's preserved here: https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/otherlives.html https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/other...
- Fnoord 1y ago
  > It's preserved here: > https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/otherlives.html https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/other... Which is preserved here [1] [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250919063134/https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/otherlives.html https://web.archive.org/web/20250919063134/https://www.nokia...
- tigerlily 1y ago
  This made me feel the world is huge and I know nothing about the lived lives of others.
  - latexr 1y ago
    You’re experiencing sonder. https://www.thedictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/concept/sonder https://www.thedictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/concept/sonder https://www.dictionary.com/browse/sonder https://www.dictionary.com/browse/sonder
    - balamatom 1y ago
      No, you're an experienced tumbler.
SXX 1y ago
Easy living. Go try to register company, open a bank and then send few payments if your name is "Vladimir Putin".
- throwaway290 1y ago
  any sanctioned individual. Some of their names are super common. Sorry Ivan Ivanov, you are on the list, no bank account for you. based by a true story. (meanwhile the sanctioned Ivan is chilling on his yacht with 3 passports and 5 golden visas)
  - spacechild1 1y ago
    Wouldn't they at the very least compare the birth dates?
    - SXX 1y ago
      Computer says no. Btw enjoy your instant ban due to AML policy, register another account to contact support again so we can ban you for breaking single account policy.
steve_taylor 1y ago
I once received a number of hateful mentions and DMs on Twitter because I share my name with a 60 Minutes Australia journalist who was the producer on a story about Conrad Murray (Michael Jackson's personal doctor). People really are that stupid.
- fastasucan 1y ago
  I worked with a guy that shares the name with the Norwegian mass murderer who targeted children at a youth camp. I think had some pretty though years, but never changed his name.
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  - siva7 1y ago
    I can't even imagine how you would go on with this name if you're living in europe as it guarantees instant recognition almost anywhere.
    - a5c11 1y ago
      Depends how you use it. I see numerous possibilities of taking advantage of such "bad name". People know the real Breivik is in prison, so they will be genuinely curious. Besides, it's not like you have your name tattooed on your forehead.
ricardo81 1y ago
It's good that he has his own website! I can relate (for non famous reasons) about the Facebook issues. I can't even sign up any more, using my real name anyway. It can be a pain as so many local organisations use Facebook as a free way to share information. Unfortunately if you're not logged in pages can be rate limited, get spammed with modals to sign up, can't scroll very far into any feed and probably in his case a nuisance as a platform for his business.
ra 1y ago
poor bastard he cops all the flack
olirex99 1y ago
This website looks a lot like the one of Saul Goodman from Breaking Bad.
- a5c11 1y ago
  I think that's the usual way the american attorneys advertise. I kinda like that style. In Poland, attorneys aren't allowed to advertise that expressively, which I think is a stupid regulation.
  - firefax 1y ago
    Poland's universal health care also removes the incentive for the type of lawyer who most commonly uses "Saul" style advertising -- personal injury attorneys. It is a big business because people need to recover their costs or be render homeless is someone hits them with their car or whatever. As a fun cherry on top, part of the opioid crisis stems from people abusing prescription drugs to return to work sooner than they would in the EU.
  - jb1991 1y ago
    This is his personal site not his law business site, which he links to in the page.
shevy-java 1y ago
Mark Zuckerberg may soon sue Mark Zuckerberg about name issues. I most assuredly would not want to be Mark Zuckerberg. That name is not inspiring to most people. (Also, by the way, because Zuckerberg is perfectly fine german: Zucker = Sugar, Berg = Mountain, so a mountain of sugar. That's not good for your health either, in particular your teeth.)
- precommunicator 1y ago
  already did https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yk810pgkko https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yk810pgkko
- nickserv 1y ago
  The Facebook founder's father was a dentist, which is pretty funny given the name.
firtoz 1y ago
How do Chinese people deal with name conflicts? If I wanna check the internet for someone, I find it impossible because for a lot of names there's at least thousands of people with the same exact full name. It must give both a feeling of safety but also frustration if you may want to stand out.
- nurettin 1y ago
  India is an interesting subject with so many Kumars and Prasads. They probably don't try to stand out with their name brand.
  - rwmj 1y ago
    In Korea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_(Korean_surname)#Clans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_(Korean_surname)#Clans
    - neskorodev 1y ago
      In Vietnam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen
- Gigachad 1y ago
  From what I can tell, official documents rely on ID numbers, and for the social side, people can just come up with informal more unique names. But I'm not an expert.
- liqilin1567 1y ago
  > How do Chinese people deal with name conflicts? In a big company, there are often many people with the same name. some companies may add a numeric suffix to their name like abc1, abc2, abc3. We usually don't use our real names for social media accounts
  - Agraillo 1y ago
    > We usually don't use our real names for social media accounts It's interesting how cultural differences can make some life algorithms hardly work in some countries. I sometimes use a method to find people from my past by googling their full name, switching to the image results, and spending a manageable amount of time scrolling through them until I find the person. I've successfully used this method several times. The images are usually related to job activities or social media profiles. However, from your description, this approach probably won't work in China for at least two reasons: too many raw results and few or no social media results. UPDATE: a follow-up question. If in a big company two or more figures happen to have the same full name and need to be exposed publicly (on a site or promotional materials), are there any tricks for this?
croisillon 1y ago
i went to his professional website https://zucklaw.com/ https://zucklaw.com/ and ironically the accessibility features there are largely inaccessible
2dvisio 1y ago
In the south of Italy where families were very close to each others, children abundant, and passing the name of grandparents to first and second borns was expected people ended up with tons of namesakes. I have 6 people in my direct family who all share same name and last name.
solodolo 1y ago
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xdavidliu 1y ago
One time in around 2008 when I was in undergrad, I got facebook requested by a guy named David Liu (same name as me) who was going to a school many thousands of miles away, and I noticed that he had facebooked about 20-30 other David Liu's. About 3-4 years later, I was in grad school, I meet this guy in person (he happened to be going to the same grad school), I recognize his name and face, and let him know that he facebooked me back then, and he got a chuckle out of it.
- anonu 1y ago
  Reminds me of this prank where you call two people with the same name and you conference them together and have them figure it out.
Zhyl 1y ago
The most recent episode of the BBC Satire Radio show "The Naked Week" reached out to hundreds of name-alikes to get them to comment on a recent UK news story. They ended up interviewing Taylor Swift, an MMA instructor from Cheltenham, UK. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002lppb https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002lppb
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damethos 1y ago
This is pure awesomeness. It made my day.
mdtrooper 1y ago
In Spain we have 2 last names: - first last name from last name first of the father. - second last name from the last name first of the mother. And with this method we have collisions. In Portugal the last name come from the mothers.
- luckys 1y ago
  In Portugal you can have one or more last names, but the very last one will be from the father's side. Unless both parents have the same double-barreled name? Never seen that here.
bertil 1y ago
A friend of mine has a relatively common first name and last name, and she regularly gets mail that is clearly not meant for her. She started a Facebook group for homonyms to help her route mail, and it now have a hundred members and have helped people get important documents. At some point, they even organized an impersonation because someone needed to retrieve an official document and couldn’t be there in person. Another member nearby offered to go and get it. “Won’t you need my ID for that? — Oh, I have one with just the right name…”
- mywacaday 1y ago
  I'm Irish and have a common firstname.lastname@gmail.com At some point the head of a national hospital thought he had that address and wasn't using his official email for everything, I got several emails that should not have been for me and some were quiet sensitive, I always emailed back the sender to let them know and eventually I emailed his secretary as it kept happening. I've also received purchase order confirmations from Australia, building contracts from Canada, HR emails from a university to which I had to confirm I had deleted the mail as letting them know led to GDPR investigation
  - baubino 1y ago
    I’m in the midst of a similar situation. My firstinitial.lastname email keeps getting very sensitive legal documents from law firms handling the case of someone who does not seem to know what their actual email address is. I called the firm and told them they needed to have an in-person meeting with their client and get a correct email address from them. That seemed to help for a few months. But now I’m getting emails again from a different law firm.
    - catoc 1y ago
      Law firms that send very sensitive legal documents over email… #sigh I’d switch firms immediately if that’s their level of opsec awareness
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bloovis 1y ago
My ex-wife had the same name as a woman in another state who had beaten up a cop and done jail time. So every time my wife's driver's license came up for renewal, the DMV decided she was that criminal, and refused to issue the license. This happened so often, she eventually was on a first-name basis with the DMV director, who had to intervene every time. I'm guessing this problem due to the DMV in our little state using an ancient computer system, perhaps written in COBOL in the 1960s. I can just see the code now, where it compares the name, but not state of residence or any other identifiers.
- noja 1y ago
  Did she share the same DOB?
- lordnacho 1y ago
  Are criminals not allowed to drive?
  - GeoAtreides 1y ago
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    - razingeden 1y ago
      i had the exact same first/last name / birth year as a kid in my school (town of about 3,000) and were both “juniors” so our dads both have the same name. that makes four of us. unfortunately that guys got some problems .. duis… domestic batteries.. drug possession .. i have been walked out of a couple jobs for “not disclosing my record” and having to sort that out. then the one time i did get into trouble. my expungement was denied because i had “so many priors”…… and then i had to go back and explain that NO, thats not me. it was approved. then process servers, warrants, derogatory credit entries cause the guy doesnt like paying his bills. i eventually got a sealed name change and that was the end of that.
  - dirtybirdnj 1y ago
    No, those are the people who refuse to upgrade the old COBOL systems. They are allowed to drive.
Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
I would send business that guys way if I could, he seems like good people, unlike the more famous Zuckerberg.
lordnacho 1y ago
I have a fairly common name, along with an uncle of the same name. I found a few others as well, and was thinking of visiting the business of one of us. Sadly, that Nacho passed away, so the plan is not going to happen, but at least we got a chuckle out of sending out the NYT obituary to various friends.
cube00 1y ago
Time for other Zuck to sort out his SSL. Firefox does not trust this site because it uses a certificate that is not valid for markzuckerberg.com. The certificate is only valid for the following names: *.facebook.com, *.facebook.net, *.fbcdn.net, *.fbsbx.com, *.m.facebook.com, *.messenger.com, *.xx.fbcdn.net, *.xy.fbcdn.net, *.xz.fbcdn.net, facebook.com, messenger.com
- Ylpertnodi 1y ago
  Thanks for the list. Blocked.
dogman1050 1y ago
My name is so common that people laugh and say, "come on, what's your real name?" There are two of us in our little town. When the other one robbed a convenience store I started getting calls from friends who thought it was me. I also look like many people, to the point that I once told someone, "no, I'm really not your cousin."
bryanrasmussen 1y ago
Hey, this is one of those rare folks Facebook doesn't even know about! https://medium.com/the-haven/5-people-facebook-doesnt-know-about-874c5405cdb1 https://medium.com/the-haven/5-people-facebook-doesnt-know-a...
stacktraceyo 1y ago
For a long time I would get hardcore stopped and hassled at the airport cause my name matched a terrorist. Although I was born in the USA. Made no sense to me why our system would flag someone just by name
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donatj 1y ago
After we got acquired I suddenly found myself getting invitations to many many meetings I had no place in. It took me a number of years to figure out it was down to myself and the companies lead architect sharing the same given name. At the time we were the only two Jesse's in a pretty big company. The problem seems to have gone away since we hired more.
hasbot 1y ago
I have the same name as a former MLB player. We both use Yahoo Mail. I was there first and use my name without the middle initial as my email address. He uses his middle initial. I've received many emails for him where people have overlooked the use of his middle initial. Sometimes it takes me a second to realize the mistake and I'm wondering WTF is this email on about.
mcdonje 1y ago
I would change my name. Family tradition isn't worth the hassle. The older people in my family would eventually get over it. This harassment will not stop.
- vintermann 1y ago
  The Facebook founder can change his name, he already changed his company's name. Mark Metaberg would surely be a more unique name.
  - mcdonje 1y ago
    But he won't
- smrq 1y ago
  "Why should I change? He's the one who sucks."
  - mcdonje 1y ago
    That was funny in the movie. In real life, he won't change. You're the one who has to deal with constant avoidable frustration.
fiatpandas 1y ago
Could anyone shed some light on the password reset email “hack”? I don’t really understand the attack sequence if the attacker doesn’t have access to your inbox. Even if you clicked them they don’t get access. My conclusion is trolling / annoyance. The same thing happens to my Instagram account, which is an old 3-letter username that is desirable. I get hundreds of reset emails per month, all generated by the real service with legit outbound links.
- willsmith72 1y ago
  how much are these services wasting sending out these emails? surely some rate limiting would be sensible
  - mr_toad 1y ago
    Compared to the torrent of actual spam this is just a drop in the bucket.
  - toast0 1y ago
    What are they wasting, other than recipient time? Hundreds of reset mails a month is probably rate limited; otherwise it would be hundreds a day.
eru 1y ago
If our Mark here ever thinks his live is too easy, he should consider moving to England, specifically Scunthorpe.
willsmith72 1y ago
As a Will Smith with no acting abilities I can relate. I have heard it got my resume to the top of the stack out of curiosity though
Findecanor 1y ago
I live in a relatively small country, but my first and last name are very common over here. There have been at least seven others with the same name in my city (population 1M) who had bought computer equipment in the same shop. In the country, there are at least three other software engineers, of which one had published his undergrad thesis on the same topic as I had at about the same time.
todotask2 1y ago
I’m Jet Li, not the real master. People laughed and couldn’t believe it, but both of us live in Singapore.
random29ah 1y ago
"Welcome to iammarkzuckerg.com" Okay, the site needs a little revision =p
- tpoacher 1y ago
  Yes I also spotted that and wondered if it was intentional or not
Nursie 1y ago
I’m have a very common first name and moderately common second name. The people who I have discovered that share my name have been nothing but a pain in the arse. There was the Guantanamo inmate who managed to get me flagged for extra checks on every flight I took from around 2005-11. Then there was the guy who leased some mining equipment and failed to pay, which somehow ended up on a background check for me for a job.
emsign 1y ago
Something tells me Mark E. Zuckerberg might need the services of Mark S. Zuckerberg soon.
HeavyStorm 1y ago
Another successful Zuck? What a blessed name.
Lerc 1y ago
My namesake was(died a few years back) the wealthiest person in the city I live in. He was worth peanuts compared to my brother's namesake who made billions through some sort of Lisp derivative shenanigans(or something along those lines, it's unclear).
ordu 1y ago
In Soviet Russia... Or not so Soviet but rather "modern" Russia, people are facing treason charges due to mistaken identity. Such a story unfolds right now: https://bereg.io/feature/2025/11/09/my-zhivem-v-raznyh-mirah https://bereg.io/feature/2025/11/09/my-zhivem-v-raznyh-mirah
avalys 1y ago
The most recent hilarious example of this was a British newspaper that contacted “Bill DeBlasio” by email for comment on the NYC mayor election (Bill de Blasio is a former mayor of NYC), without ever verifying (or apparently, even asking) that they had found the person they intended. https://www.semafor.com/article/10/29/2025/british-newspaper-spoke-to-the-wrong-deblasio-not-an-imposter https://www.semafor.com/article/10/29/2025/british-newspaper... The man at the heart of a high-stakes mix-up that rippled through global political journalism in the final days of the New York mayoral campaign was neither “falsely claiming” to be former Mayor Bill de Blasio — as the Times of London suggested — nor, as The New York Times wrote, a “de Blasio impersonator.” He is, instead, a 59-year-old Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio, who merely responded to an email from a journalist seeking his views on Democrat Zohran Mamdani’s policies. “I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida. “I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor,” DeBlasio told Semafor. “So I just gave him my opinion.”
Polizeiposaune 1y ago
Another recent name collision story: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/british-newspaper-spoke-wrong-deblasio-021434923.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/british-newspaper-spoke-... (Note the slightly different spelling; the former mayor is "de Blasio", while the wine importer is "DeBlasio") quote: The man at the heart of a high-stakes mix-up that rippled through global political journalism in the final days of the New York mayoral campaign was neither “falsely claiming” to be former Mayor Bill de Blasio — as the Times of London suggested — nor, as The New York Times wrote, a “de Blasio impersonator.” He is, instead, a 59-year-old Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio, who merely responded to an email from a journalist seeking his views on Democrat Zohran Mamdani’s policies. “I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida. “I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor,” DeBlasio told Semafor. “So I just gave him my opinion.”
- failingforward 1y ago
  “said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida.” We are truly living in the future.
  - ThrowawayTestr 1y ago
    Video doorbells have been around for a long time.
rebewhd 1y ago
Similar situation here. My name is far from unique, but it's not common either. My best known impersonator is a prolific sci-fi author. Whenever I'm introduced to someone and they perk up at my name, it's almost guaranteed that they're fans of that author. Then I have to disappoint them... Still, it's a good conversation starter.
- ChoGGi 1y ago
  I'm more interested in what your opinion on their works is? Are you a fan of yourselfsake?
nayuki 1y ago
When I was in university a decade ago, a classmate of mine shared the same name as some high-ranking university staff. The classmate's university email account received some unsolicited confidential messages that were intended for the staff, not him.
jart 1y ago
Sucks to have all the downsides of being famous, but none of the benefits.
dspillett 1y ago
A couple of decades ago I got sent some potentially sensitive (not sure how sensitive, I read as little as possible) employment related messages intended for someone with a name very like mine (same forename and middle name, surname differed by two typos, they also had the relevant <surname>.net domain). I replied politely saying that I wasn't who they thought I was, and that I'd deleted the messages, and the buggers threatened to sue me if I continued to receive any more messages that they sent! This was an American firm, so there was no language barrier involved, though apparently an intelligence gap. I didn't contact the other person until that threat, but at that point I looked him up and passed on that part of the comms trail with a “just to let you know what sort of idiots and litigious fools you are dealing with…” note.
dbg31415 1y ago
Just a reminder that there are ongoing issues where Facebook prevents Native Americans from signing up or being allowed to use their legitimate names because their legal names are judged “inauthentic.” This has been documented for well over a decade. Facebook has publicly promised changes, but the problem persists and support responses appear weak. Almost like they don’t care at all… https://www.vice.com/en/article/facebook-is-still-making-it-difficult-for-native-americans-to-use-their-real-names-602/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/facebook-is-still-making-it-...
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tlogan 1y ago
A friend of mine worked for a company with “cloud” in its name, but company had nothing to do with computer clouds. He said they got at least two calls a day from angry people complaining that their “cloud” wasn’t working (he’s pretty sure most of them meant iCloud).
iambateman 1y ago
This article gives a window into both how oppressive social media can be for high-profile folks and how confused a LOT of people are basically all the time. It also helps me remember that there’s a lot of people out there who are pretty angry and feel unheard. The world’s a tough place for a lot of people.
mikewarot 1y ago
Last I heard, the other Mike Warot was a guard at the British Museum. I'm sure there are more. My brother in law, William Morris, got me more than one notice when his caller ID showed up at the marketing firm I used to work at. ;-) A few years ago, I was trying to find fun things to show my friend Ward, and you wouldn't believe how many Ward Christensens there are mentioned in newspapers.com. This must be some analog of the birthday paradox.
neilv 1y ago
I'd never heard of anyone with the same name as me, until '94 or so, when I put up a Web page, and some nice person with the same name contacted me. Name-wise, apparently there are at least two instances of a Dutch man (surname) unable to resist the marriage-material charms of the Irish. Decades later, my namesake and I have email addresses differing by one letter, and I still forward email intended for him. My namesake is accomplished and respected, and at least once I inadvertently rode on his reputation. A remote colleague referred offhand to me being a volunteer firefighter, apparently having Web searched, and confusing me with my better namesake (whose contributions include being a fire chief).
neilv 1y ago
Some kinds of law specialties can get fun marketing. In Boston, a personal injury lawyer is recently doing a bus advertising sign that seems to be a play on "Better Call Saul" (of the scrappy fictional TV series character's ads). https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1nboypw/someone_at_glassman_nailed_the_decision_to/ https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1nboypw/someone_at_...
pogue 1y ago
I think I would rather change my name than deal with all that, tbh.
rboyd 1y ago
I wonder if Facebook Mark ever receives emails from people needing bankruptcy help. It goes both ways.
_-_-__-_-_- 1y ago
I share my name with a corporate lawyer living a few hours away. Maybe one day I'll cash-in on that domain name.
matthewfcarlson 1y ago
I am fascinated by the people who just send a request to mark zuckerburg for money in Venmo. I guess shoot your shot, it costs you nothing. But still
andrewinardeer 1y ago
I got halfway through an exec level interview process with an international food service conglomerate due to them trying to internally promote my namesake.
comonoid 1y ago
"I don't know who they are, but their attorney is Mark Zuckerberg".
coltnz 1y ago
I rue the day (in 2004/5?) I got my name as my gmail address. My first name is not rare and my surname very common. Since then I've collected an eclectic group of homonyms who I just can't get out my inbox. The list includes: the retired English nurse who races remote control yachts and never pays his telco bill, the South African gold miner whose best new spots I am privy too, the NZ sports shop chain owner with a large property portfolio linked to my identity, the English lad on probation who ignores my suggestions to improve his dire CV presentation, and the Perth member of an illegal motorcycle group who is called occasionally to ride outs for fallen members.
- sandspar 1y ago
  You must have the most English name imaginable!
muhammadusman 1y ago
my name's Muhammad Usman, let me tell you, there are 1000s of us out there if not more. It's very hard to get a username without numbers on any site except somehow I got it on HN :D
WastedCucumber 1y ago
This post is somewhat related and always makes me chuckle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43929724 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43929724
snitzr 1y ago
https://nissan.com https://nissan.com
nadermx 1y ago
I mean, I guess since he is on the front page of Hacker News, he is in fact the real Mark Zuckerberg
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brunoff 1y ago
My name is composed of three parts, each one is common, but I thought that their sequence was supposed to be rare for statistical reasons. I sometimes searched for it in the internet to take a look of how my homonyms were going. Before 2010 they were few in terms of search results, but as years passed by, they started to show their faces. Most of the time they weren't bringing good news, like for example writing a best seller. I remember one year, a news site said one got killed by a shot. Then a few months later another one was also shot. I even sent a joke message to a few close coworkers "sorry, I won't be able to show up at work tomorrow. reason: I got killed (again) - <link to news>". Another name "rareness" related story. Somewhere around 2010's I was backpacking east Europe and border police hold a train from Croatia to Slovenia for something like 15-20 minutes asking me to prove that I really was myself. Then they released me and let the train enter the country, but even so the police randomly appeared to ask my specific documents (in places that there were other people they came and asked only my docs). Then it started happening in other countries, most (but not all) countries started to hold me on the border control for one hour or two to do some clearance. Then in Argentina the border police said that someone with my whole name AND birth date was in some kind of interpol search list. Then two or three years later it stopped happening. I am sure someone stole my id and commited some crimes and then he was caught, because it is impossible to someone with my same three name and birth date happen to be in a interpol list just by coincidence. Interpol lists have how many people? 25k? Divide by days in a year. 69 have born in same day as you. From those, one have the same name as you.
hamonrye 1y ago
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CHB0403085482 1y ago
Singer Katy Perry vs Sydney designer Katie Perry https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-09/high-court-to-decide-on-katie-perry-trademark-claim-katy-perry/105748520 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-09/high-court-to-decide-...
maebert 1y ago
I literally just hired Ben Horowitz last month, but I must assume that mine is the better systems and integrations engineer so I consider myself having getting the better deal.
kinleyd 1y ago
OK. I avoided this post for a while, and then had to find out what was up. It was worth it. Ha ha, it brought a bit of levity to my afternoon.
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mghackerlady 1y ago
Honestly the more I read the more I felt bad for the guy. Like yeah, having your personal facebook disabled a bunch is funny but I couldn't imagine getting a bunch of threats directed towards you is very good for the psyche, especially while getting hundreds of calls a day
integer_i 1y ago
My name is Jonathan Apple, a variety of a fruit. If I want to find myself in a search engine I usually have to add -fruit -trees. I work in tech so the jokes are endless.
Jotalea 1y ago
this reminds me of Adolf Hitler Unnona [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler_Uunona https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler_Uunona

1286 points by jb1991 1y ago

Reminds me of CV lcamtuf published on his website shortly after leaving Google. A single page that mainly said: "my name is Zalewski, yes, that Zalewski".

Fire-Dragon-DoL 1y ago

He should be glad to be a lawyer, otherwise he might have spent so much money dealing with the name lol

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koolala 1y ago

it is pretty funny

lukan 1y ago
Mostly "I routinely receive death threats and harassment on the Messenger app directed to the "other" Mark Zuckerberg"
- koolala 1y ago
  you'd hope they would notice their mistake before its too late

chao- 1y ago

The best bit: >Like I said, I don't wish Mark E. Zuckerberg any ill will at all. I hope the best for him, but let me tell you this: I will rule the search for "Mark Zuckerberg bankruptcy". And if he does fall upon difficult financial times, and happens to be in Indiana, I will gladly handle his case in honor of our eponymy. According to the Algorithm Lords of my particular filter bubble, he does indeed rule the search results for "Mark Zuckerberg bankruptcy".

geoffbp 1y ago

I wonder if he’s ever had anything positive happen because of it. That list looks like a PITA :)

XenophileJKO 1y ago
The "rich" Mark Zuckerburg should give him some compensation for the hassle. That would be right thing to do.
- burnt-resistor 1y ago
  Answer the question: What would an asshole do? They would buy up their neighbors' houses to make an unapproved mega compound, buy up ancestral Hawaiian land to block communal land access, and do unlicensed shit without permits making their remaining neighbors miserable. So what is right by virtue is unlikely to happen because almost all billionaires are legitimized criminal aristocrats subject to a different set of rules than average or poor people who are killed in the street for selling loose cigarettes like Eric Garner.
  - drstewart 1y ago
    Okay
  - fortran77 1y ago
    Cigarettes kill. Selling loosies to kids kills.
- lpln3452 1y ago
  No. The individuals genuinely at fault here are 1) those who inflict harm on others, considering that being wealthy or disliked does not justify actions such as death threats 2) those who target the wrong person simply due to a shared name. Any discussion of compensation should be directed at them.
  - makeitdouble 1y ago
    > 2) those who target the wrong person simply due to a shared name. In this case that includes the other Zuck's company. He should at least do something about that.

mat0 1y ago

Good for you, Mark! I had a nice chuckle. On a more serious note, I really feel for the people that cannot get any kind of support and try to get some help by messaging "the owner" of the social network they are in. With big companies, you used to be able to get someone to talk to you when you had a problem. Not anymore. The best you can get is a well trained LLM

debtta 1y ago
I mean another theory is that those people are misguided and vexatious, and that this correlates with them not actually checking which Mark Zuckerberg they are sending their urgent complaint email to.
Propelloni 1y ago
> Good for you, Mark! I had a nice chuckle. Me too! Mark S. Zuckerberg seems to be a relaxed guy with a good sense of humor. Very likeable presentation!
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dan-robertson 1y ago
What do you think happens today if you mail a letter addressed to the CEO of a big company (or their office)?
- glenneroo 1y ago
  Please try... for science... and write about it and post here referencing this discussion. Thanks! :)
  - toast0 1y ago
    Depends on the company. Mail to the CEO is a well known customer support escalation path. For companies that do generally support their customers, usually it gets you into an 'executive support' queue with people who are empowered to understand and solve problems that are mostly solvable --- you should be able to get money things made right, but don't expect product changes (but it can happen). For companies that don't support their customers, it gets overwhelmed and may get dumped into the same usual support channels where reps aren't empowered to get anything done.

lifthrasiir 1y ago

Similar case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_v._Nissan_Computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_v._Nissan_Comput...

rzzzt 1y ago
Close approximation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft (this was not Mike from "Dirty Jobs" but a different person)
- lifthrasiir 1y ago
  Yeah, but in this case MikeRoweSoft.com redirects to microsoft.com after the settlement. Uzi Nissan was able to keep his domain to this day, even after his death in 2020.
- swiftcoder 1y ago
  Man, litigating versus a 12 year old boy has got to be the easiest job in the business - "Will you settle for an Xbox and a bundle of games?"
  - dataflow 1y ago
    12th grade, not 12 years old.
    - onionisafruit 1y ago
      The Xbox offer still stands Edit: I replied before I read the wikipedia link and learned he literally settled for an xbox.
  - austinjp 1y ago
    Huh, having checked the wikipedia link (the kid was 17 not 12), that's exactly what happened!
cyberax 1y ago

makeitdouble 1y ago

On the "fake name" thing: I felt guilty reading it, as in many past companies "Mark Zuckerberg" (and Bill Gates, and Tim Apple, Elon Musk etc) was indeed often used as a placeholder for test accounts and test data, and it never crossed my mind that we were basically training ourself to also treat a "Mark Zuckerberg" on our service as an account that escaped the sandbox or some other attack on the service.

whatsupdog 1y ago
Lol, it's Tim Cook, Mr. President.
- f4c39012 1y ago
  Tim Apple is an awesome mnemonic
- makeitdouble 1y ago
  It was kinda funny from across the pond, the first time around. Putin horse riding topless was also a funny meme. Looking back at that period is depressing af.
rzzzt 1y ago
Hopefully there aren't too many people with the name "First Last" running around.
- makeitdouble 1y ago
  It was tricky to use too literal names, as they're basically the placeholders in the input forms for instance, or the translations keys. To defend a bit the choice for somewhat realistic names, there is a gestalt decomposition where you're looking through "First name" first names for hundreds of lines. Same for Lorum ipsums, designers' reaction are completely different when the page looks somewhat realistic and isn't just a blatant test.

jowea 1y ago

This is why we should replace names with uuids.

agnishom 1y ago
At the very least names should be unique strings, preferably pronouncable
- prashantsengar 1y ago
  Correct horse battery staple
  - cheschire 1y ago
    “That’s amazing! I’ve got the same combination on my luggage!”
- mFixman 1y ago
  You need to have a restricted set of allowed syllables to prevent attackers from having names with similar pronounciation to common ones. In unique name world I would totally for a scammer telling me "Hello, my name is Marck Zuckaberg, give me all your data".
- Symbiote 1y ago
  In The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin, the anarchists have names assigned at birth by a computer, guaranteed to be unique. They are gender-neutral (I think their artificial language doesn't have the possibility for gendered names) and monomial. (I highly recommend reading the book, it's one of my favourite novels.)
  - vintermann 1y ago
    They are not guaranteed to be unique as I recall, at one point the main character gets in a fight with a guy who demanded he change his name since he was tired of getting confused. Ursula Le Guin didn't sugarcoat anarchism, at least, though I still think the depiction of the main planet system is a lot more depressingly plausible.

avestura 1y ago

Some names are problematic, like this one. Some others are lucky [1] (I know it's a joke) [1] https://ifunny.co/picture/go-gle-most-popular-actor-in-video-games-qa-images-A2QKwtcK9 https://ifunny.co/picture/go-gle-most-popular-actor-in-video...

ivolimmen 1y ago
Even with people that are not famous it can be difficult. My wife knows three people with the same name. So when I ask with whom are you going out she needs to add the city to make me understand.
- lazide 1y ago
  Part of why in many times, ‘of x’ was a common ‘surname’. Also, profession - basically ‘Bob the Smith’, ‘John the Baker’, etc. A lot of places (India, Brazil) still use one of your parents on official documents to disambiguate (Bob Smith, son of John (or Jill) Smith from Smithville).

mjd 1y ago

There's a lawyer in Philadelphia named Justin Bieber. I'm not sure which would be worse.

defraudbah 1y ago
haha, you are in trouble, i am calling justin bieber!
AmbroseBierce 1y ago
The data is pretty clear, Justin Bieber, specially in February 2011 (but improving since) https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F06w2sn5,%2Fm%2F086dny&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...
tuzemec 1y ago
Who is Justice Beaver? --- Sorry, an old joke from The Office and I couldn't resits...
wslh 1y ago
If I were him, I would start singing and sending my music as a side project.
incanus77 1y ago
I know the guy who had Twitter/X @Justin (also my name) early on and he would constantly get mentions for “@Justin Bieber” because people didn’t understand the space.
swyx 1y ago
there's several dudes named Jeffrey Epsteins out there who i assure you have far more negative associations

pinkmuffinere 1y ago

Having the same name as a famous person seems like a decent marketing benefit. And funnily enough, that’s achievable with some paperwork in many areas of the world! I wonder how/if this interacts with trademark (or other?) law. Can I change my name to Sundar Pichai? If so, then why haven’t a bunch of techbro founders done that already?

andsoitis 1y ago
> Can I change my name to Sundar Pichai? If so, then why haven’t a bunch of techbro founders done that already? Yes, you can. But it’d be stupid.

jopsen 1y ago

Sometimes your life would be easier if you just changed your name.

ncr100 1y ago
It's unjust.
- Freak_NL 1y ago
  Sure, but if tomorrow some dude with the same name as me decides to go on a killing spree, or sexually assault a toddler, I'd change my name. Just or unjust. I'd have to change my email domain too though, so that would suck, but at least I could put up a website there explaining my new name and that I am not the now world famous terrorist who shot up a kindergarden/fondled the pope/ate a baby.
  - ncr100 1y ago
    I see - that would suck. "You're not related to THE Adolf Hitler .. (I hope?)" -hypothetical conversation [pope fondling - just getting closer to God]
zero_shift 1y ago
"Why should I? He's the one who sucks"

hunterpayne 1y ago

He could easily use his middle name or go by Marcus. Just saying...sounds terrible having to deal with all the insanity.

awestroke 1y ago
I wouldn't want to humiliate myself by letting The Zuck prevent me from using my own name
debtta 1y ago
Why should I change my name? He's the one that sucks.

kristopolous 1y ago

ctrl+u this ... there's some nice parts commented out

Freak_NL 1y ago
That lost bit of sample HTML below the body is cute too: <a href="https://www.example.com" target="_blank">Link Text</a> It gives the site an artisanal feel.

burnt-resistor 1y ago

Michael Bolton: https://youtu.be/WjZKVKxZcAo https://youtu.be/WjZKVKxZcAo

stillworks 1y ago
I celebrate the guy's entire catalog.

llamasushi 1y ago

Lol, this reminds me of a funny story. I had a lawyer whose name was Jim Halpert. Turns out he was the very Jim who was inspired his namesake on the office. Asked him about it once. His reply? "Hey, it's been great for getting clients." =) He was also very much like Jim on the show. Fun times.

Biganon 1y ago
Did he look at the camera after replying?
firefax 1y ago
I've heard of this guy, but not met him. My CEO told me that I remind them of Jim Halpert and I was like "Really? The guy from the Office? I always pictured myself as more of a Creed"[1], which made them bust out laughing and declare "That's such a Jim thing to say" and wander off after explaining that it's based on a real person. It made me wonder how many of those characters are based on real people, since they themselves reminded me of another character I'll omit for privacy's sake... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeZ6a1A0-ow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeZ6a1A0-ow

piker 1y ago

Interesting look into what Zuck and other mega celebrities experience day to day. I'm sure Zuck and others of a certain stature have many protection layers, but surely some things slip through and it's interesting to consider those just a tier lower that can't afford all of the security, etc. Reminds me of the Bill Murray quote: "I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it."

unyttigfjelltol 1y ago
The website security model breaks down when people constantly try to enter your password. The currently model assumes good behavior by most people most of the time in order for basic web services to function. Seems like an obvious vulnerability to malicious activity.
makeitdouble 1y ago
Yes. Outside of the sheer security, people telling rich people they're fake will just warrant a cute condescending laugh and they go on with their life, while the guy here is basically denied his identity.
ChrisMarshallNY 1y ago
With the Internet, you can now be famous, without being rich. Many of the truly rich people are quite anonymous. The billionaires you read about are really just the tip of the iceberg.
- lordnacho 1y ago
  Plus fame minus rich is probably not great. You can get a lot of unwanted attention that you can't avoid by moving or hiring guards.
  - avhception 1y ago
    Related phenomenon: So-called "Lolcows". Over here in Germany, we have the infamous case of "Drachenlord", a Youtuber that had a lot of negative interactions with his "fanbase" to the point that one could argue he was dependent on being harassed.

mjd 1y ago

Dennis Ritchie (co-inventor of the C programming language) had a page on his personal web site called “My other lives” with a list of other Dennis Ritchies. “Outside of my main professional career, I have accumulated other WWW-recorded accomplishments and have other interests. Generally I pursue these interests using separate mail addresses, SS#, and DNA.” It's preserved here: https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/otherlives.html https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/other...

Fnoord 1y ago
> It's preserved here: > https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/otherlives.html https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/other... Which is preserved here [1] [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250919063134/https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/otherlives.html https://web.archive.org/web/20250919063134/https://www.nokia...
tigerlily 1y ago
This made me feel the world is huge and I know nothing about the lived lives of others.
- latexr 1y ago
  You’re experiencing sonder. https://www.thedictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/concept/sonder https://www.thedictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/concept/sonder https://www.dictionary.com/browse/sonder https://www.dictionary.com/browse/sonder
  - balamatom 1y ago
    No, you're an experienced tumbler.

SXX 1y ago

Easy living. Go try to register company, open a bank and then send few payments if your name is "Vladimir Putin".

throwaway290 1y ago
any sanctioned individual. Some of their names are super common. Sorry Ivan Ivanov, you are on the list, no bank account for you. based by a true story. (meanwhile the sanctioned Ivan is chilling on his yacht with 3 passports and 5 golden visas)
- spacechild1 1y ago
  Wouldn't they at the very least compare the birth dates?
  - SXX 1y ago
    Computer says no. Btw enjoy your instant ban due to AML policy, register another account to contact support again so we can ban you for breaking single account policy.

steve_taylor 1y ago

I once received a number of hateful mentions and DMs on Twitter because I share my name with a 60 Minutes Australia journalist who was the producer on a story about Conrad Murray (Michael Jackson's personal doctor). People really are that stupid.

fastasucan 1y ago
I worked with a guy that shares the name with the Norwegian mass murderer who targeted children at a youth camp. I think had some pretty though years, but never changed his name.
- ghuffed 1y ago
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- siva7 1y ago
  I can't even imagine how you would go on with this name if you're living in europe as it guarantees instant recognition almost anywhere.
  - a5c11 1y ago
    Depends how you use it. I see numerous possibilities of taking advantage of such "bad name". People know the real Breivik is in prison, so they will be genuinely curious. Besides, it's not like you have your name tattooed on your forehead.

ricardo81 1y ago

It's good that he has his own website! I can relate (for non famous reasons) about the Facebook issues. I can't even sign up any more, using my real name anyway. It can be a pain as so many local organisations use Facebook as a free way to share information. Unfortunately if you're not logged in pages can be rate limited, get spammed with modals to sign up, can't scroll very far into any feed and probably in his case a nuisance as a platform for his business.

ra 1y ago

poor bastard he cops all the flack

olirex99 1y ago

This website looks a lot like the one of Saul Goodman from Breaking Bad.

a5c11 1y ago
I think that's the usual way the american attorneys advertise. I kinda like that style. In Poland, attorneys aren't allowed to advertise that expressively, which I think is a stupid regulation.
- firefax 1y ago
  Poland's universal health care also removes the incentive for the type of lawyer who most commonly uses "Saul" style advertising -- personal injury attorneys. It is a big business because people need to recover their costs or be render homeless is someone hits them with their car or whatever. As a fun cherry on top, part of the opioid crisis stems from people abusing prescription drugs to return to work sooner than they would in the EU.
- jb1991 1y ago
  This is his personal site not his law business site, which he links to in the page.

shevy-java 1y ago

Mark Zuckerberg may soon sue Mark Zuckerberg about name issues. I most assuredly would not want to be Mark Zuckerberg. That name is not inspiring to most people. (Also, by the way, because Zuckerberg is perfectly fine german: Zucker = Sugar, Berg = Mountain, so a mountain of sugar. That's not good for your health either, in particular your teeth.)

precommunicator 1y ago
already did https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yk810pgkko https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yk810pgkko
nickserv 1y ago
The Facebook founder's father was a dentist, which is pretty funny given the name.

firtoz 1y ago

How do Chinese people deal with name conflicts? If I wanna check the internet for someone, I find it impossible because for a lot of names there's at least thousands of people with the same exact full name. It must give both a feeling of safety but also frustration if you may want to stand out.

nurettin 1y ago
India is an interesting subject with so many Kumars and Prasads. They probably don't try to stand out with their name brand.
- rwmj 1y ago
  In Korea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_(Korean_surname)#Clans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_(Korean_surname)#Clans
  - neskorodev 1y ago
    In Vietnam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen
Gigachad 1y ago
From what I can tell, official documents rely on ID numbers, and for the social side, people can just come up with informal more unique names. But I'm not an expert.
liqilin1567 1y ago
> How do Chinese people deal with name conflicts? In a big company, there are often many people with the same name. some companies may add a numeric suffix to their name like abc1, abc2, abc3. We usually don't use our real names for social media accounts
- Agraillo 1y ago
  > We usually don't use our real names for social media accounts It's interesting how cultural differences can make some life algorithms hardly work in some countries. I sometimes use a method to find people from my past by googling their full name, switching to the image results, and spending a manageable amount of time scrolling through them until I find the person. I've successfully used this method several times. The images are usually related to job activities or social media profiles. However, from your description, this approach probably won't work in China for at least two reasons: too many raw results and few or no social media results. UPDATE: a follow-up question. If in a big company two or more figures happen to have the same full name and need to be exposed publicly (on a site or promotional materials), are there any tricks for this?

croisillon 1y ago

i went to his professional website https://zucklaw.com/ https://zucklaw.com/ and ironically the accessibility features there are largely inaccessible

2dvisio 1y ago

In the south of Italy where families were very close to each others, children abundant, and passing the name of grandparents to first and second borns was expected people ended up with tons of namesakes. I have 6 people in my direct family who all share same name and last name.

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xdavidliu 1y ago

One time in around 2008 when I was in undergrad, I got facebook requested by a guy named David Liu (same name as me) who was going to a school many thousands of miles away, and I noticed that he had facebooked about 20-30 other David Liu's. About 3-4 years later, I was in grad school, I meet this guy in person (he happened to be going to the same grad school), I recognize his name and face, and let him know that he facebooked me back then, and he got a chuckle out of it.

anonu 1y ago
Reminds me of this prank where you call two people with the same name and you conference them together and have them figure it out.

Zhyl 1y ago

The most recent episode of the BBC Satire Radio show "The Naked Week" reached out to hundreds of name-alikes to get them to comment on a recent UK news story. They ended up interviewing Taylor Swift, an MMA instructor from Cheltenham, UK. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002lppb https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002lppb

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damethos 1y ago

This is pure awesomeness. It made my day.

mdtrooper 1y ago

In Spain we have 2 last names: - first last name from last name first of the father. - second last name from the last name first of the mother. And with this method we have collisions. In Portugal the last name come from the mothers.

luckys 1y ago
In Portugal you can have one or more last names, but the very last one will be from the father's side. Unless both parents have the same double-barreled name? Never seen that here.

bertil 1y ago

A friend of mine has a relatively common first name and last name, and she regularly gets mail that is clearly not meant for her. She started a Facebook group for homonyms to help her route mail, and it now have a hundred members and have helped people get important documents. At some point, they even organized an impersonation because someone needed to retrieve an official document and couldn’t be there in person. Another member nearby offered to go and get it. “Won’t you need my ID for that? — Oh, I have one with just the right name…”

mywacaday 1y ago
I'm Irish and have a common firstname.lastname@gmail.com At some point the head of a national hospital thought he had that address and wasn't using his official email for everything, I got several emails that should not have been for me and some were quiet sensitive, I always emailed back the sender to let them know and eventually I emailed his secretary as it kept happening. I've also received purchase order confirmations from Australia, building contracts from Canada, HR emails from a university to which I had to confirm I had deleted the mail as letting them know led to GDPR investigation
- baubino 1y ago
  I’m in the midst of a similar situation. My firstinitial.lastname email keeps getting very sensitive legal documents from law firms handling the case of someone who does not seem to know what their actual email address is. I called the firm and told them they needed to have an in-person meeting with their client and get a correct email address from them. That seemed to help for a few months. But now I’m getting emails again from a different law firm.
  - catoc 1y ago
    Law firms that send very sensitive legal documents over email… #sigh I’d switch firms immediately if that’s their level of opsec awareness
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bloovis 1y ago

My ex-wife had the same name as a woman in another state who had beaten up a cop and done jail time. So every time my wife's driver's license came up for renewal, the DMV decided she was that criminal, and refused to issue the license. This happened so often, she eventually was on a first-name basis with the DMV director, who had to intervene every time. I'm guessing this problem due to the DMV in our little state using an ancient computer system, perhaps written in COBOL in the 1960s. I can just see the code now, where it compares the name, but not state of residence or any other identifiers.

noja 1y ago
Did she share the same DOB?
lordnacho 1y ago
Are criminals not allowed to drive?
- GeoAtreides 1y ago
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  - razingeden 1y ago
    i had the exact same first/last name / birth year as a kid in my school (town of about 3,000) and were both “juniors” so our dads both have the same name. that makes four of us. unfortunately that guys got some problems .. duis… domestic batteries.. drug possession .. i have been walked out of a couple jobs for “not disclosing my record” and having to sort that out. then the one time i did get into trouble. my expungement was denied because i had “so many priors”…… and then i had to go back and explain that NO, thats not me. it was approved. then process servers, warrants, derogatory credit entries cause the guy doesnt like paying his bills. i eventually got a sealed name change and that was the end of that.
- dirtybirdnj 1y ago
  No, those are the people who refuse to upgrade the old COBOL systems. They are allowed to drive.

Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago

I would send business that guys way if I could, he seems like good people, unlike the more famous Zuckerberg.

lordnacho 1y ago

I have a fairly common name, along with an uncle of the same name. I found a few others as well, and was thinking of visiting the business of one of us. Sadly, that Nacho passed away, so the plan is not going to happen, but at least we got a chuckle out of sending out the NYT obituary to various friends.

cube00 1y ago

Time for other Zuck to sort out his SSL. Firefox does not trust this site because it uses a certificate that is not valid for markzuckerberg.com. The certificate is only valid for the following names: *.facebook.com, *.facebook.net, *.fbcdn.net, *.fbsbx.com, *.m.facebook.com, *.messenger.com, *.xx.fbcdn.net, *.xy.fbcdn.net, *.xz.fbcdn.net, facebook.com, messenger.com

Ylpertnodi 1y ago
Thanks for the list. Blocked.

dogman1050 1y ago

My name is so common that people laugh and say, "come on, what's your real name?" There are two of us in our little town. When the other one robbed a convenience store I started getting calls from friends who thought it was me. I also look like many people, to the point that I once told someone, "no, I'm really not your cousin."

bryanrasmussen 1y ago

Hey, this is one of those rare folks Facebook doesn't even know about! https://medium.com/the-haven/5-people-facebook-doesnt-know-about-874c5405cdb1 https://medium.com/the-haven/5-people-facebook-doesnt-know-a...

stacktraceyo 1y ago

For a long time I would get hardcore stopped and hassled at the airport cause my name matched a terrorist. Although I was born in the USA. Made no sense to me why our system would flag someone just by name

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donatj 1y ago

After we got acquired I suddenly found myself getting invitations to many many meetings I had no place in. It took me a number of years to figure out it was down to myself and the companies lead architect sharing the same given name. At the time we were the only two Jesse's in a pretty big company. The problem seems to have gone away since we hired more.

hasbot 1y ago

I have the same name as a former MLB player. We both use Yahoo Mail. I was there first and use my name without the middle initial as my email address. He uses his middle initial. I've received many emails for him where people have overlooked the use of his middle initial. Sometimes it takes me a second to realize the mistake and I'm wondering WTF is this email on about.

mcdonje 1y ago

I would change my name. Family tradition isn't worth the hassle. The older people in my family would eventually get over it. This harassment will not stop.

vintermann 1y ago
The Facebook founder can change his name, he already changed his company's name. Mark Metaberg would surely be a more unique name.
- mcdonje 1y ago
  But he won't
smrq 1y ago
"Why should I change? He's the one who sucks."
- mcdonje 1y ago
  That was funny in the movie. In real life, he won't change. You're the one who has to deal with constant avoidable frustration.

fiatpandas 1y ago

Could anyone shed some light on the password reset email “hack”? I don’t really understand the attack sequence if the attacker doesn’t have access to your inbox. Even if you clicked them they don’t get access. My conclusion is trolling / annoyance. The same thing happens to my Instagram account, which is an old 3-letter username that is desirable. I get hundreds of reset emails per month, all generated by the real service with legit outbound links.

willsmith72 1y ago
how much are these services wasting sending out these emails? surely some rate limiting would be sensible
- mr_toad 1y ago
  Compared to the torrent of actual spam this is just a drop in the bucket.
- toast0 1y ago
  What are they wasting, other than recipient time? Hundreds of reset mails a month is probably rate limited; otherwise it would be hundreds a day.

eru 1y ago

If our Mark here ever thinks his live is too easy, he should consider moving to England, specifically Scunthorpe.

willsmith72 1y ago

As a Will Smith with no acting abilities I can relate. I have heard it got my resume to the top of the stack out of curiosity though

Findecanor 1y ago

I live in a relatively small country, but my first and last name are very common over here. There have been at least seven others with the same name in my city (population 1M) who had bought computer equipment in the same shop. In the country, there are at least three other software engineers, of which one had published his undergrad thesis on the same topic as I had at about the same time.

todotask2 1y ago

I’m Jet Li, not the real master. People laughed and couldn’t believe it, but both of us live in Singapore.

random29ah 1y ago

"Welcome to iammarkzuckerg.com" Okay, the site needs a little revision =p

tpoacher 1y ago
Yes I also spotted that and wondered if it was intentional or not

Nursie 1y ago

I’m have a very common first name and moderately common second name. The people who I have discovered that share my name have been nothing but a pain in the arse. There was the Guantanamo inmate who managed to get me flagged for extra checks on every flight I took from around 2005-11. Then there was the guy who leased some mining equipment and failed to pay, which somehow ended up on a background check for me for a job.

emsign 1y ago

Something tells me Mark E. Zuckerberg might need the services of Mark S. Zuckerberg soon.

HeavyStorm 1y ago

Another successful Zuck? What a blessed name.

Lerc 1y ago

My namesake was(died a few years back) the wealthiest person in the city I live in. He was worth peanuts compared to my brother's namesake who made billions through some sort of Lisp derivative shenanigans(or something along those lines, it's unclear).

ordu 1y ago

In Soviet Russia... Or not so Soviet but rather "modern" Russia, people are facing treason charges due to mistaken identity. Such a story unfolds right now: https://bereg.io/feature/2025/11/09/my-zhivem-v-raznyh-mirah https://bereg.io/feature/2025/11/09/my-zhivem-v-raznyh-mirah

avalys 1y ago

The most recent hilarious example of this was a British newspaper that contacted “Bill DeBlasio” by email for comment on the NYC mayor election (Bill de Blasio is a former mayor of NYC), without ever verifying (or apparently, even asking) that they had found the person they intended. https://www.semafor.com/article/10/29/2025/british-newspaper-spoke-to-the-wrong-deblasio-not-an-imposter https://www.semafor.com/article/10/29/2025/british-newspaper... The man at the heart of a high-stakes mix-up that rippled through global political journalism in the final days of the New York mayoral campaign was neither “falsely claiming” to be former Mayor Bill de Blasio — as the Times of London suggested — nor, as The New York Times wrote, a “de Blasio impersonator.” He is, instead, a 59-year-old Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio, who merely responded to an email from a journalist seeking his views on Democrat Zohran Mamdani’s policies. “I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida. “I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor,” DeBlasio told Semafor. “So I just gave him my opinion.”

Polizeiposaune 1y ago

Another recent name collision story: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/british-newspaper-spoke-wrong-deblasio-021434923.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/british-newspaper-spoke-... (Note the slightly different spelling; the former mayor is "de Blasio", while the wine importer is "DeBlasio") quote: The man at the heart of a high-stakes mix-up that rippled through global political journalism in the final days of the New York mayoral campaign was neither “falsely claiming” to be former Mayor Bill de Blasio — as the Times of London suggested — nor, as The New York Times wrote, a “de Blasio impersonator.” He is, instead, a 59-year-old Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio, who merely responded to an email from a journalist seeking his views on Democrat Zohran Mamdani’s policies. “I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida. “I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor,” DeBlasio told Semafor. “So I just gave him my opinion.”

failingforward 1y ago
“said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida.” We are truly living in the future.
- ThrowawayTestr 1y ago
  Video doorbells have been around for a long time.

rebewhd 1y ago

Similar situation here. My name is far from unique, but it's not common either. My best known impersonator is a prolific sci-fi author. Whenever I'm introduced to someone and they perk up at my name, it's almost guaranteed that they're fans of that author. Then I have to disappoint them... Still, it's a good conversation starter.

ChoGGi 1y ago
I'm more interested in what your opinion on their works is? Are you a fan of yourselfsake?

nayuki 1y ago

When I was in university a decade ago, a classmate of mine shared the same name as some high-ranking university staff. The classmate's university email account received some unsolicited confidential messages that were intended for the staff, not him.

jart 1y ago

Sucks to have all the downsides of being famous, but none of the benefits.

dspillett 1y ago

A couple of decades ago I got sent some potentially sensitive (not sure how sensitive, I read as little as possible) employment related messages intended for someone with a name very like mine (same forename and middle name, surname differed by two typos, they also had the relevant <surname>.net domain). I replied politely saying that I wasn't who they thought I was, and that I'd deleted the messages, and the buggers threatened to sue me if I continued to receive any more messages that they sent! This was an American firm, so there was no language barrier involved, though apparently an intelligence gap. I didn't contact the other person until that threat, but at that point I looked him up and passed on that part of the comms trail with a “just to let you know what sort of idiots and litigious fools you are dealing with…” note.

dbg31415 1y ago

Just a reminder that there are ongoing issues where Facebook prevents Native Americans from signing up or being allowed to use their legitimate names because their legal names are judged “inauthentic.” This has been documented for well over a decade. Facebook has publicly promised changes, but the problem persists and support responses appear weak. Almost like they don’t care at all… https://www.vice.com/en/article/facebook-is-still-making-it-difficult-for-native-americans-to-use-their-real-names-602/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/facebook-is-still-making-it-...

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tlogan 1y ago

A friend of mine worked for a company with “cloud” in its name, but company had nothing to do with computer clouds. He said they got at least two calls a day from angry people complaining that their “cloud” wasn’t working (he’s pretty sure most of them meant iCloud).

iambateman 1y ago

This article gives a window into both how oppressive social media can be for high-profile folks and how confused a LOT of people are basically all the time. It also helps me remember that there’s a lot of people out there who are pretty angry and feel unheard. The world’s a tough place for a lot of people.

mikewarot 1y ago

Last I heard, the other Mike Warot was a guard at the British Museum. I'm sure there are more. My brother in law, William Morris, got me more than one notice when his caller ID showed up at the marketing firm I used to work at. ;-) A few years ago, I was trying to find fun things to show my friend Ward, and you wouldn't believe how many Ward Christensens there are mentioned in newspapers.com. This must be some analog of the birthday paradox.

neilv 1y ago

I'd never heard of anyone with the same name as me, until '94 or so, when I put up a Web page, and some nice person with the same name contacted me. Name-wise, apparently there are at least two instances of a Dutch man (surname) unable to resist the marriage-material charms of the Irish. Decades later, my namesake and I have email addresses differing by one letter, and I still forward email intended for him. My namesake is accomplished and respected, and at least once I inadvertently rode on his reputation. A remote colleague referred offhand to me being a volunteer firefighter, apparently having Web searched, and confusing me with my better namesake (whose contributions include being a fire chief).

neilv 1y ago

Some kinds of law specialties can get fun marketing. In Boston, a personal injury lawyer is recently doing a bus advertising sign that seems to be a play on "Better Call Saul" (of the scrappy fictional TV series character's ads). https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1nboypw/someone_at_glassman_nailed_the_decision_to/ https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1nboypw/someone_at_...

pogue 1y ago

I think I would rather change my name than deal with all that, tbh.

rboyd 1y ago

I wonder if Facebook Mark ever receives emails from people needing bankruptcy help. It goes both ways.

_-_-__-_-_- 1y ago

I share my name with a corporate lawyer living a few hours away. Maybe one day I'll cash-in on that domain name.

matthewfcarlson 1y ago

I am fascinated by the people who just send a request to mark zuckerburg for money in Venmo. I guess shoot your shot, it costs you nothing. But still

andrewinardeer 1y ago

I got halfway through an exec level interview process with an international food service conglomerate due to them trying to internally promote my namesake.

comonoid 1y ago

"I don't know who they are, but their attorney is Mark Zuckerberg".

coltnz 1y ago

I rue the day (in 2004/5?) I got my name as my gmail address. My first name is not rare and my surname very common. Since then I've collected an eclectic group of homonyms who I just can't get out my inbox. The list includes: the retired English nurse who races remote control yachts and never pays his telco bill, the South African gold miner whose best new spots I am privy too, the NZ sports shop chain owner with a large property portfolio linked to my identity, the English lad on probation who ignores my suggestions to improve his dire CV presentation, and the Perth member of an illegal motorcycle group who is called occasionally to ride outs for fallen members.

sandspar 1y ago
You must have the most English name imaginable!

muhammadusman 1y ago

my name's Muhammad Usman, let me tell you, there are 1000s of us out there if not more. It's very hard to get a username without numbers on any site except somehow I got it on HN :D

WastedCucumber 1y ago

This post is somewhat related and always makes me chuckle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43929724 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43929724

snitzr 1y ago

https://nissan.com https://nissan.com

nadermx 1y ago

I mean, I guess since he is on the front page of Hacker News, he is in fact the real Mark Zuckerberg

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brunoff 1y ago

My name is composed of three parts, each one is common, but I thought that their sequence was supposed to be rare for statistical reasons. I sometimes searched for it in the internet to take a look of how my homonyms were going. Before 2010 they were few in terms of search results, but as years passed by, they started to show their faces. Most of the time they weren't bringing good news, like for example writing a best seller. I remember one year, a news site said one got killed by a shot. Then a few months later another one was also shot. I even sent a joke message to a few close coworkers "sorry, I won't be able to show up at work tomorrow. reason: I got killed (again) - <link to news>". Another name "rareness" related story. Somewhere around 2010's I was backpacking east Europe and border police hold a train from Croatia to Slovenia for something like 15-20 minutes asking me to prove that I really was myself. Then they released me and let the train enter the country, but even so the police randomly appeared to ask my specific documents (in places that there were other people they came and asked only my docs). Then it started happening in other countries, most (but not all) countries started to hold me on the border control for one hour or two to do some clearance. Then in Argentina the border police said that someone with my whole name AND birth date was in some kind of interpol search list. Then two or three years later it stopped happening. I am sure someone stole my id and commited some crimes and then he was caught, because it is impossible to someone with my same three name and birth date happen to be in a interpol list just by coincidence. Interpol lists have how many people? 25k? Divide by days in a year. 69 have born in same day as you. From those, one have the same name as you.

hamonrye 1y ago

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CHB0403085482 1y ago

Singer Katy Perry vs Sydney designer Katie Perry https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-09/high-court-to-decide-on-katie-perry-trademark-claim-katy-perry/105748520 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-09/high-court-to-decide-...

maebert 1y ago

I literally just hired Ben Horowitz last month, but I must assume that mine is the better systems and integrations engineer so I consider myself having getting the better deal.

kinleyd 1y ago

OK. I avoided this post for a while, and then had to find out what was up. It was worth it. Ha ha, it brought a bit of levity to my afternoon.

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mghackerlady 1y ago

Honestly the more I read the more I felt bad for the guy. Like yeah, having your personal facebook disabled a bunch is funny but I couldn't imagine getting a bunch of threats directed towards you is very good for the psyche, especially while getting hundreds of calls a day

integer_i 1y ago

My name is Jonathan Apple, a variety of a fruit. If I want to find myself in a search engine I usually have to add -fruit -trees. I work in tech so the jokes are endless.

Jotalea 1y ago

this reminds me of Adolf Hitler Unnona [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler_Uunona https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler_Uunona