An Egyptian father has decided to name his new daughter 'Facebook' to mark his country's recent revolution
I'll give you a moment to digest that.
REALLY???
Grammar Nazi note: Why the hell is there no period at the end of that sentence?
According to Al-Ahram, one of the country's most popular newspapers, the man in his 20s called Jamal Ibrahim, named his daughter after the social networking site.
He is said to have called her Facebook because he was so happy with the role played by the site in organising protests in Tahrir Square and other cities throughout Egypt.
Okay, look, I understand the sentiment here, I really do. But seriously, your sentimental moment has set your child up for years and years of explanation and ridicule.
How about Marcia, the female version of Mark, after Mark Zuckerberg who founded Facebook?
The girl's full name is Facebook Jamal Ibrahim and her family and their friends and neighbrous are reported to have gathered around the newborn, expressing their continued support for the revolution they say started on Facebook.
Not only does she have that screwed up first name, but her middle name is your first name? How egotistical are you?
Are you guys not realizing that this is cool today (to you, apparently, not so much to us normal folks out there), but the novelty will wear off in a few months. And your poor kid is saddled with this name forever. Or until she’s old enough to legally change it. (Can you do that in Egypt?)
Here’s my biggest thing – nothing on the internet lasts forever. Think about it … Myspace – hardly used anymore. Prodigy? Yeah, no one born after 1990 has a clue that used to be an ISP. So, in 5-10 years, when Facebook is no more, how are people going to respond to this wonderful, compound word you named your child?
Grammar Nazi note: Yes, that “neighbrous” is supposed to be “neighbors” (or the British version of “neighbours” ) but nope, that typo made it past the editing desk.
In Egypt there are five million Facebook users - more than any other country in the Middle East and that number rocketed over the last month as the revolution got underway.
Okay, so we get it, Facebook is more popular in Egypt than any other Middle Easy country.
There were 32,000 groups and 14,000 pages created following the January 25th revolution.
And we get, no, we know, that it started the revolution in Egypt. It’s still no excuse to abuse your poor child by naming her Facebook.
The military government has also started using Facebook to try and reach out to Egyptian youth.
Yeah, that’s probably viewed about as cool as when your mom made a Facebook page too.
Following President Hosni Mubarak's resignation graffiti was daubed across the capital city, Cairo, saying 'Thank you Facebook'.
Aww, look, that little girl is only a few days old and she’s already got graffiti up about her.
One internet blogger said: 'The internet as a whole should win the Nobel Peace Prize this year for all it's done for democracy in the Middle East/North African region, but let's not let this naming kids get out of hand.
'I'd hate for little Facebook to have to share a classroom with a little AOL, or worse a little Yahoo!'
Oh, you know someone’s already named their kid Yahoo. There’s probably a little “Internet” running around too. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least. God, I hate people.
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