According to Facebook, nearly 8.7 percent registered members are unquestionably duplicated accounts, spammers, or non-people. This is a surprising range and the social media giant has recognized such fake accounts as potential risks to the company.
In a report posted on Buzz Feed, Phuc Dat Bich, a 23-year-old Vietnamese-Australian man from Melbourne uploaded a photo of his passport which clearly displays his name. He voiced out his disappointment with the social media giant after Facebook banned his account three times and accused him of using a name which is misleading and fake.
The post reads:
I find it highly irritating the fact that nobody seems to believe me when I say that my full legal name is how you see it.
I've been accused of using a false and misleading name of which I find very offensive. Is it because I'm Asian? Is it?
Having my fb shut down multiple times and forced to change my name to my "real" name, so just to put it out there. My name.
Yours sincerely,
Phuc Dat Bich
Even though the picture was posted in January, it has lately drawn global media attention, gaining over 130,000 likes and more that 78,000 shares as of Friday.
In line with the hot issue over LGBT names in late 2014, Facebook's Chief Product Officer Chris Cox apologized but said the real names policy is "the primary mechanism" the organization implements to secure members from fraudulent individuals disguising behind false names.
A clip posted on YouTube shows the right pronunciation of the name at around the 5:15 mark, which does not sounds like the phrase used as an insult in English.
The name whic is pronounced 'Phoop Dook Bic' is considered a typical name in Vietname despite the striking reacting it has gotten in Australia.
BuzzFeed has reached out to Bich for comment.
