Comments on Facebook Reportedly Blocking Traditional Native American Names as "Not Real"TypePad2015-02-17T18:36:33ZSLHamlethttps://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/tag:typepad.com,2003:https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2015/02/facebook-real-names-native-american-names/comments/atom.xml/Kitty Revolver commented on 'Facebook Reportedly Blocking Traditional Native American Names as "Not Real"'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341bf74053ef01b7c74efe77970b2015-02-17T22:05:43Z2015-02-17T22:05:43ZKitty Revolverhttp://thescholarsrobes.tumblr.comthere should be a "" around the last real.<p>there should be a "" around the last real.</p>Kitty Revolver commented on 'Facebook Reportedly Blocking Traditional Native American Names as "Not Real"'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341bf74053ef01bb07f2ac10970d2015-02-17T22:04:42Z2015-02-17T22:04:42ZKitty Revolverhttp://thescholarsrobes.tumblr.comYeah a friend of mine was told to change his last name because it was just an initial. For anyone...<p>Yeah a friend of mine was told to change his last name because it was just an initial. </p>
<p>For anyone keeping up with the debate over pseudonym and real life identities like the twitter debate, I would say this is more tricky. Given that Twitter allows for more flexible naming, people's truer and alternative names are easier to use so thus an easier way of dealing with the real person. For Facebook they want legal names, while legal and real names overlap for most people, this isn't the case for many trans* folk and, here, Native Americans. Real identities don't have to match up to real names, but that doesn't mean they are a pseudonym.</p>