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by shaftoe 4015 days ago
Summary: Facebook has an overly rigid process governing names and this guy has an edge-case problem.

Is this not a solved issue? How do women who change their name upon marriage use Facebook? Does Facebook recognize legal name changes? Is that not in effect here?

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It says something that my comment is getting downvoted, though I'm not sure what. Is it sensitivity to saying scenarios that are statistical anomalies "edge-cases"?