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How about simply letting people use whatever name they want?

• VLM 12y ago
  The kneejerk response is it reduces the financial value of your data they sell to others. However, upon reflection, I think that is incorrect. If someone wants to be called "Dana Lone Hill", because that is her name, maybe her marketing spam should call her "Dana Lone Hill", even if facebook thinks its made up or racists don't like her kind and see this as a highly effective harassment technique. Database columns are cheap. I like going by my initials. Not seeing this as a major technological limitation in 2015.
  • Crito 12y ago
    Marketing spam that is using a name that the recipient invented for use on facebook will immediately be discarded, since using the pseudonym outs it as not legitimate. It is in the interest of spammers to use the most official name for a person that is possible, since mail that is addressed in such a way is read (unless it has another "tell").