Name Game on Facebook

Via Caroline McCarthy’s Piece on News.com

If you’ve used a fictitious name or have played around with your name on Facebook, then you aren’t allowed to change it. This quite clearly means that you’ve to be careful as well as wise enough to pick the right name for yourself. It has happened in multiple cases that users have/had tried to change their Facebook names with no success.

Take the example of Elizabeth Kuh, a junior at the University of California-San Diego, majoring in international studies and Middle Eastern studies. In real, her true name is Kristin and she has user her first name as her middle name on Facebook. However, later on when she tried to change the name it didn’t work out.

"I took my first name off because, well, I’m not really sure why," Kuhn told me. (Full disclosure: I know her personally. We are Facebook friends. That’s how I knew about her name dilemma in the first place.) "I think I was wondering how long it would take before people actually thought my name was Elizabeth." It was a sort of experiment to test the power of Facebook, she explained.

According to Elizabeth/Caroline

"The problem is that I soon realized I didn’t really care and started to miss my first name." So she tried to change it back. "Nothing happened," she said. "So I tried again, and again, over a couple weeks, but to no avail. It just wouldn’t change. Then finally on one try, instead of ignoring my request as usual, up came a nasty message in red about how due to one of my previous attempts being rejected, I had been banned from using the name-change application for two weeks."

Infact if she meets new people, they think her actual name is Elizabeth and not Caroline

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