May 25, 2009

Facebook drops members with unusual names

If you have an unusual name Facebook may think it’s a fake and drop your account. One member found out the hard way.

Alicia Istanbul woke up one recent Wednesday to find herself locked out of the Facebook account she opened in 2007, one Facebook suddenly deemed fake.

The stay-at-home mom was cut off not only from her 330 friends, including many she had no other way of contacting, but also from the pages she had set up for the jewelry design business she runs from her Atlanta-area home.

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