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	<title>Robert Basic &#187; facebook</title>
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		<title>Facebook registration, part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blablabla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[facebook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I wrote about a problem with registering an account on Facebook. This morning, I&#8217;ve got the reply: Hi Robert, Welcome to Facebook. We have confirmed your account, and you should be able to access it now. Sorry for the delay! Login: New Password: Please note that Facebook passwords are case sensitive [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A few days ago I wrote about a problem with <a href="http://robertbasic.com/blog/facebook-registration/">registering an account</a> on Facebook. This morning, I&#8217;ve got the reply:</p>
<blockquote><p>
Hi Robert,<br />
Welcome to Facebook.  We have confirmed your account, and you should be able to access it now.  Sorry for the delay!<br />
Login:<br />
New Password:<br />
Please note that Facebook passwords are case sensitive (FACEbook is not the same as facebook).  If you&#8217;re having trouble with this login/password combination, I suggest copying and pasting the login and password into the appropriate fields.<br />
Once logged in, you can change your password from the &#8220;Settings&#8221; tab of the Account page.  Let me know if you have any further questions.<br />
Thanks for contacting Facebook,<br />
Sadie<br />
User Operations<br />
Facebook
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<p>Not a word on what was causing the system to reject my registration. At least, I&#8217;ve got one &#8220;sorry&#8221;.</p>
<p>Well, I have my Facebook account now, so if you&#8217;ll excuse me, I&#8217;m off to find some long lost friends :)</p>
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		<title>Facebook registration</title>
		<link>http://robertbasic.com/blog/facebook-registration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[facebook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tried to register on Facebook. I filled up the register form, typed all the information, double-checked for errors&#8230; Clicked &#8220;Sign up&#8221;, and they gave me a big read box saying: Our automated system will not approve this name. If you believe this is an error, please contact us. Wtf?! My name is wrong?! How [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I tried to register on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/" target="_blank">Facebook</a>. I filled up the register form, typed all the information, double-checked for errors&#8230; Clicked &#8220;Sign up&#8221;, and they gave me a big read box saying:</p>
<blockquote><p>Our automated system will not approve this name. If you believe this is an error, please contact us.</p></blockquote>
<p>Wtf?! My name is wrong?! How could it be wrong?! I checked it again, refilled the form, and&#8230; same error again. OK, their system is messed up, I don&#8217;t like those troubleshooting systems, those are never helpful, so I&#8217;ll try again later. A few minutes after, I tried again. Same thing. Weird. Then I did a Google search on &#8220;Robert Basic Facebook&#8221; terms. First hit: a Facebook profile for Robert Basic. Yep, there&#8217;s a person, with same name as mine, registered on Facebook. So, I used their troubleshoot system, which ended up writing them an E-mail:</p>
<blockquote><p>Hi there!<br />
I am Robert Basic, from Serbia, age 22.<br />
Well, I&#8217;m having trouble registering on Facebook. There is already a guy registered on Facebook, we share the same name, so maybe that&#8217;s the problem. Anyway, we are two separate persons, he lives in Germany, I live in Serbia. Is there a solution for this problem? Oh, and the error I got was:<br />
&#8220;Our automated system will not approve this name. If you believe this is an error, please contact us.&#8221;<br />
So there. I&#8217;ve made contact. I come in peace.<br />
Regards,<br />
Robert
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<p>The E-mail is sent, now I&#8217;m waiting to see what will happen next.</p>
<p>Frankly, I don&#8217;t give a damn about having a Facebook profile; well, not anymore. Now, I just want to know, how could this happen? They never thought about this scenario when two persons have same names? OK, maybe, I&#8217;m wrong and this error comes up because of something else, but for me, this is the only reasonable explanation.</p>
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