I am what I am.

[rosiedoes]

Why must everyone be a stroppy teenager about everything?

*headdesk*

In other news (or perhaps topically), Facebook are fucking mental and decided that my name - my real name, the one on my passport, and the one my colleagues call me - is in fact fake, and have disabled my account until such time as I give them my "real" one. Which it already is and which I was already using.

How did we come to this? Well, their automated system would not accept my roller derby name (long explanation, if you don't know roller derby, but think of it kind of somewhere between an alterego and a stage name and then assume everyone who plays the sport only knows you by that roller derby name and not the one your parents gave you) so, using their help form as provided, I asked if it would be possible for it to be added as the alternate name or as a nickname. Their response was to tell me my real name was fake (proving that 'Natalia' who emailed me back had not read my email at all and just made random assumptions, as it clearly explained what the circumstances were) and disable my perfectly legitimate account.

So, if you had me friended and now can't find me, this is why. I haven't blocked you, the fucking idiots have blocked me.

Comments

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

Because the Internet has this strange way of stripping a lot of people of maturity the minute they put their hands on the keyboard.

Facebook really is stupid sometimes. I mean, what are you supposed to do to prove that is your real name? Because I sure as fuck wouldn't send them any important documents to prove it.

I've never really agreed with the whole "You MUST provide your real name" thing. So long as you don't give a really obvious fake name. And sorry, but your going to tell celebs they can't use their stage names? Yeah right.

(Besides, isn't Natalia an actual name?)

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

Do you use your middle initial? You could add it, or leave it out if you've used it before. Unless you don't have a middle initial.