“Why Do Yoruba People Have Low Facebook Name Self Esteem?”

Ex Oyo State Governor’s Daughter, Omololu Olunloyo Asks. She has created a lot of buzz again because of her write up which you’ll find below, and the Yorubas are yet to stop cursing her and calling her all sorts of names.

She wrote; Nigerians really irritate me on Facebook when they alter their names into these eyesore names. As a member of the Community standards team at Facebook, u are not allowed a fake name.

Many Nigerians in the Yoruba tribe where I am from, disgustingly alter the spellings of their names to horrible proportions. These beautiful African names are defaced due to lack of self esteem. I reported 10 last week on FB and they were told to produce ID before their pages could be re-opened.

They got mad at me. I clearly warned them beforehand. Even ppl with other fake nicknames need to be reported if you see them without a real name. I don’t see this trend in other tribes in Nigeria. #SMH My full name is Olukemi Omololu-Olunloyo Spelled like a eyesore is Holukehmi Hormololoo-Howloonlawyour

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Facebook is a social site. When one talks about any social gathering, it doesn't mean you need being official or try following any formal protocol concerning your name, address, profile or the modus operandi of their characters. One is free to write his name anyhow and act anyhow so far it doesn't violate the rules and regulation binding the handlers and also the action that is against the sociality and relationship with his other colleagues or anybody emotionally, psychologically and morally on the social site.
The 'defaced' name may be for security reasons now. Or is facebook a site for formal and official matters in which you must be formal and official with every detail?
The writer fell prey of argumentum ad ignorantium, hasty conclusion, hasty generalization for saying the act is peculiar to the yorubas. What does she know about other tribes? what does she understand about their alphabets, names and the alphabetic characters of their names?

You are very wrong Tolexander, the lady complaining has a point and is not ignorant. Facebook has never allowed fake names but the number of users have grown so much I doubt they can always monitor and control every account user. I laughed because I had mentioned something similar on a thread with examples on how we spell names funny; Phemy, themithorpe, jhyde NL is excusable but not every site.

Some networking sites demand using real names, it is unfortunate that there are fraudulent people around who try to use information for other means whether criminal or otherwise.

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Ijebabe! K i think i now agree with you on the issue of correct username.

netnews: I don’t
see this trend in other tribes
in Nigeria.

but the author has fallen prey of these fallacies concerning the quote:
argumentum ad ignorantium, hasty conclusion. What does she know about the alphabetical make up of other ethnic groups before saying it is peculiar to yorubas and other tribes don't do it.

The topic said Nigerians and not Yorubas. As a fellow Yoruba I think she felt more comfortable giving examples with her tribe.
I can't stop laughing at how she spelt her name

netnews: They got mad at me. I clearly
warned them beforehand. Even
ppl with other fake nicknames
need to be reported if you see
them without a real name. I don’t
see this trend in other tribes in
Nigeria.

ijebabe! What about the last part of the quote?
Though i know it is common to yorubas. But she can't tell me she hasn't seen the trend with other tribes.

Hehehehe! I just saw that. No comment

Dis woman don vex. Na naija people matter u use oshuka carry for head? Wa pe nbe.

Kemi left a very harsh message today

kinda agree with her, very irritating!!!

A nickname is even better than these mutilated spellings