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Re:My name is only real enough to work at Facebook, not to u... by DanBC on Saturday November 07, 2015 @03:30PM (#10526112)
You know the names they've given you.

You have no idea if those names are real enough for Facebook - plenty of people don't use the name on their birth certificate or marriage certificate or passport. (And this is legal and correct in many countries.)

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Re:My name is only real enough to work at Facebook, not to u... by geogriffin on Saturday November 07, 2015 @05:28PM (#10526483)
Yes, like in California, where you're technically allowed to change your name through continued usage (though that doesn't fly for Social Security and thus neither for DMV or banks, which makes this method pretty useless)

http://www.courts.ca.gov/1054.htm

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Re:My name is only real enough to work at Facebook, not to u... by thaumasiotes on Saturday November 07, 2015 @06:39PM (#10526701)
What I'm getting from this is that you don't know your "friends" particularly well. How do you know how well I know my friends?
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Re:My name is only real enough to work at Facebook, not to u... by DanBC on Sunday November 08, 2015 @05:02AM (#10528098)
I think you underestimate how common it is for people to use names other than on their birth certificates, passports or marriage certificates.
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Re:My name is only real enough to work at Facebook, not to u... by thaumasiotes on Sunday November 08, 2015 @12:23PM (#10529067)
On the contrary, I am friends with such a person. We've talked about it.

Actually, I am friends with many such people, if you count Chinese people using English names. There is a mode where I don't know any part of a Chinese person's name, but there's no mode where I know their personal name but not their surname.

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