[objclxt]

> Facebook actually will recognize if a name sounds "too fake" and reject it

Not all fake names! About six months ago I went to interview on-site at Facebook. I have two Facebook accounts, a legacy from before testing accounts were actually available on the platform. One's my real account, the other is under the name of 'Johnny Appleseed'.

When you arrive at Facebook you check-in using the e-mail address you've been using to communicate with your recruiter. What I didn't realise was that Facebook's systems then automatically look up that e-mail address, and pre-populate your visitors badge with information from that account.

So the upshot of this was that for the rest of the day I was 'Johnny Appleseed'. Given I was interviewing for a iOS role this raised a few eyebrows with my interviewers. The receptionist told me this happens a lot for software engineering interviews.

[mikeevans]

Wow that explains something I've been wondering about for a while. I interviewed there a few months back (using an email address not tied to a Facebook account) and all of a sudden I started getting emails about how I had joined Facebook using that address, and hadn't added any friends. I guess if you don't already have an account, they make one for you?