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They prob prefer to have fake accounts than to block a real user that wants to sign up (or lost his email account and signs up again, etc etc)

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When Facebook was young I had my account suspended because I used a fake name. I reached out to support and had a conversation with a real person about my supposed name, "Joe Blow." I guess at some point they stopped doing that.

right? "all attempts welcome" philosophy

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