This is why we should replace names with uuids.
I Am Mark Zuckerberg
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#12Some names are problematic, like this one. Some others are lucky [1] (I know it's a joke)
[1] https://ifunny.co/picture/go-gle-most-popular-actor-in-video...
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#13I wonder if he’s ever had anything positive happen because of it. That list looks like a PITA :)
The "rich" Mark Zuckerburg should give him some compensation for the hassle.
That would be right thing to do.
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#14On the "fake name" thing: I felt guilty reading it, as in many past companies "Mark Zuckerberg" (and Bill Gates, and Tim Apple, Elon Musk etc) was indeed often used as a placeholder for test accounts and test data, and it never crossed my mind that we were basically training ourself to also treat a "Mark Zuckerberg" on our service as an account that escaped the sandbox or some other attack on the service.
Lol, it's Tim Cook, Mr. President.
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#15There's a lawyer in Philadelphia named Justin Bieber.
I'm not sure which would be worse.
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#16it is pretty funny
Mostly
"I routinely receive death threats and harassment on the Messenger app directed to the "other" Mark Zuckerberg"
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#17Having the same name as a famous person seems like a decent marketing benefit. And funnily enough, that’s achievable with some paperwork in many areas of the world! I wonder how/if this interacts with trademark (or other?) law. Can I change my name to Sundar Pichai? If so, then why haven’t a bunch of techbro founders done that already?
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#18Sometimes your life would be easier if you just changed your name.
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#19He could easily use his middle name or go by Marcus. Just saying...sounds terrible having to deal with all the insanity.
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#20I wonder if he’s ever had anything positive happen because of it. That list looks like a PITA :)
I share the same name with a local TV star in my country. Even that is a PITA. Can’t imagine being named Mark Zuckerberg or Michael Jackson or anything like that.
At some point there were teenager girls calling me (no idea how they got the phone number). I started acting like they called the right person and there would be happy screams on the other hand. I guess the high point was that. I decided that might not be a good idea though. Would definitely continue if my “fans” were middle aged men.