Posted on 08/14/2008 3:42:38 PM PDT by Daffynition
Facebook claims it cracks down on fraudulent profiles and approves every name change that users make -- so why are they letting Barack Obama supporters to change their middle name to "Hussein"?
Barack Hussein Obama's middle name is constant fodder for Obama opponents who wish to draw attention to the Muslim portions of his background. The Facebook name change is an attempt by Obama supporters to show solidarity with their candidate.
Facebook claims it confirms all name changes before they are live and even pops up a list of requirements before name changes can be processed. This is what I saw when I tried to change my Facebook name:
A name change supposedly takes 24 hours and requires approval but when I clicked "confirm request" and reloaded my page, the name change was immediately active. The New York Times wrote up the story at the end of June taking note of the trend, but didn't have any comment from Facebook about the name change requirements, particularly the one which requires a Facebook profile "be attached to your real name."
I thought perhaps changing a middle name at all was exempt from this policy, but when I tried to change my name to Jordan Fark Golson, after Drew Curtis' headline aggregator, the name change did not go through instantly like "Hussein" did. It seems that name changes to Hussein are exempt from the policy, but other new middle 'names' are not.
The use of "Hussein" in a user's Facebook name is clearly a political message and I wonder if other middle names are acceptable like "McCain" or "Legalize", which also have an obvious political message.
I've put in a request for clarification and comment to Facebook about the name change policy and the renaming trend and hope to hear from them soon.
Gee if Obama thinks having the middle name “Hussein” is such a liability, why doesn’t he just change it to Harry?
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Guess I need to add that middle name to my nic!
Nope, no bias here.
Shall we all change our middle names to REAGAN?
The poor bastard has already had so many name changes, place of birth changes, preacher changes, religion changes, position changes, citizenship changes and loyalty changes that his campaign pledge for "Change you can believe in" and "HOPE" -- has already burned itself out on changes to date and realized there is no Hope for improvement....
Okay.... Everyone.... Let’s recite the non-conformists oath....
I promise to be different. I promise to be unique......
Conspiracy Hussein Guy, just doesn’t work.
Conspiracy Brittany Guy, doesn’t work either.
How does Conspiracy Paris Hilton Guy, sound? I kind of like it.
Conspiracy Ron Ray Gun Guy
Jet Hussein Jaguar?
Nahhh
Conspiracy Bitter Gun Owning Guy.
Yep! That’ll do it.
It’s getting close.
Jet Black Jaguar sounds really cool. But I don’t think the word “black” is allowed to be used anymore. It is too racist.
Conspiracy Bitter Bible Believing Gun Owning Guy.
I think we have it.
HAHAHA! Priceless!
I could do that.
LOL. Maybe a hyphenated “Barry-Soetoro” Middle name is even better.
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