I Am Mark Zuckerberg

Mostly

"I routinely receive death threats and harassment on the Messenger app directed to the "other" Mark Zuckerberg"

The "rich" Mark Zuckerburg should give him some compensation for the hassle.

That would be right thing to do.

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.

What do you think happens today if you mail a letter addressed to the CEO of a big company (or their office)?

A couple of years ago when I still was on Facebook, I had a problem with my account being falsely accused of hacking. I believe it happened because I had been chatting with my friend about computer malware.

All my chats were gone, and I couldn't write to any of my friends. "Okay, I will just reach the tech support, and solve the problem" - silly me back then. I was genuinely shocked that there was no "Facebook support". Just a bunch of FAQs, general help, and that's it, no way to talk to anyone. I felt completely helpless and lost, really unpleasant feeling.

My account got back to normal after one day or so, but that was the day I decided to begin the process of leaving that platform.

> Good for you, Mark! I had a nice chuckle.

Me too! Mark S. Zuckerberg seems to be a relaxed guy with a good sense of humor. Very likeable presentation!

I mean another theory is that those people are misguided and vexatious, and that this correlates with them not actually checking which Mark Zuckerberg they are sending their urgent complaint email to.

Close approximation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft (this was not Mike from "Dirty Jobs" but a different person)

First thing I did was check https://nissan.com which apparently I haven’t done in years. RIP Uzi!

Also somewhat similar, the first large domain name dispute in Germany, in which a person called Andreas Shell held the domain shell.de:

https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/-55795?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_...

German Original: https://www.heise.de/-55795

A more hilarious example: https://korrespondent.net/strange/522473-belorus-soobshchivs... ( translated: https://korrespondent-net.translate.goog/strange/522473-belo... ).

Lol, it's Tim Cook, Mr. President.

Hopefully there aren't too many people with the name "First Last" running around.

that is silly. Obviously it should be the hash of someone’s genetic code plus the hash of the mind state vector at last checkpoint (to account for twins and clones)

Even better: social security numbers

A quick tattoo on the arm and your set for life.

"Ohhh, if it isn't 99adbad3-f3c8-4c52-99d8-be692c62b9db again! Man, what a blast last Friday at e128001f-9737-4245-b08b-73bc50db0204's party, right?"

At the very least names should be unique strings, preferably pronouncable

Sorry but I am voting for the opposite solution, meaning:

    with Session( engine ) as session:
        youngest_ids_subq = (
            select( func.max( People.id ).label( "max_id" ) )
            .group_by( People.name )
            .subquery()
        )

        purge_stmt = (
            delete( People ) 
            .where( People.id.not_in( select( youngest_ids_subq.c.max_id ) ) )
        )

        session.execute( purge_stmt )
        session.commit()

    unique_idx = Index( "uq_people_name", People.name, unique=True )
    unique_idx.create(bind=engine)

I propose we use UUIDv4 to interfere with any attempts to build demographic databases.

We do have personal numbers used for identification purposees, in my country we have the OIB

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identification_number...

which superseded the JMBG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_Master_Citizen_Number

What is more likely to happen is a global namespace of unique names. Famous and powerful people get to pick first, because they are more important. Names can be inherited and become signs of your class and wealth.

You get to be Bob192382, because you got in early and only had to add 6 numeric digits. In the year 2100, we're at 15 digits.

Everyone should get their own emoji that looks just like them.

That would make parties a bit awkward, but it would avoid collisions.

okay, mr... nullptr

Right after we upload minds into machines.

As someone who already has trouble with names, I endorse this. Now everyone will feel my pain

An IPv6 would also. Then this chap could have his website hosted on it.

Which version? Probably UUID v7, right? So names can be easily indexed in a btree database

I vote for [nanoid](https://github.com/ai/nanoid).

I dare you to name your kids UUIDs and see what happens.

I suspect when they are old enough to change their names, they will. For example, Wavy Gravy's son changed his name back to a normal family name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavy_Gravy#Personal_life

Every time that kind of thing is suggested, people go on about “The Mark of the Beast.”

This is why we can’t have nice things.

As someone moved several times in my life I could support (potentially several) personal uuid with global post routing service. Having declaring new postal address to all essential and random places one by one where I was mandated to give out to receive something I couldn't miss (authorities, banks, essential service providers, all else) is a common nuisance in an otherwise difficult period of life. Having a trustful[*] service (preferably post services itself, trusted parcel services) that translates a postal uuid to a current address each time a postal mail is supposed to be sent, current living address is righfully needed, would be a great advance (some countries have a postal address change service locally, some partially, that does similar).

[*] trustful, yes, that is a hard nut to crack! Who can be trusted with physical address and for what purpose, but in some sense it may be better for its controlled nature rather than the wild west of postal address world that we live in.

See, someone told me few days ago that sarcasm doesn't work via text. Lol

Even with people that are not famous it can be difficult. My wife knows three people with the same name. So when I ask with whom are you going out she needs to add the city to make me understand.

The data is pretty clear, Justin Bieber, specially in February 2011 (but improving since) https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...

there's several dudes named Jeffrey Epsteins out there who i assure you have far more negative associations

haha, you are in trouble, i am calling justin bieber!

I know the guy who had Twitter/X @Justin (also my name) early on and he would constantly get mentions for “@Justin Bieber” because people didn’t understand the space.

If I were him, I would start singing and sending my music as a side project.

Who is Justice Beaver?

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Sorry, an old joke from The Office and I couldn't resits...

> Can I change my name to Sundar Pichai? If so, then why haven’t a bunch of techbro founders done that already?

Yes, you can. But it’d be stupid.

It's unjust.

"Why should I? He's the one who sucks"

I wouldn't want to humiliate myself by letting The Zuck prevent me from using my own name

Why should I change my name? He's the one that sucks.

That lost bit of sample HTML below the body is cute too:

    <a href="https://www.example.com" target="_blank">Link Text</a>

It gives the site an artisanal feel.

I celebrate the guy's entire catalog.

Did he look at the camera after replying?