* A MTF transsexual who prefers going by a feminine spelling of her name
* A Vietnamese girl who prefers to go by an adopted American name
* A Jewish woman who prefers to spell her name in Hebrew, and whose legal name contains six names
For all the things Facebook gets wrong, the name input is really not one of them, compared to Google+.
People have known me as MAD for over a decade now, and although I sometimes wish I could just go by Corbin, it's something that I'm stuck with, better or worse. Nomenclature is hard, and any attempt to shoehorn names into a single culture's rules is going to fail.
I'd be fine with any of the examples you gave, actually. I think as long as they "kinda seem" like they could be real names and are properly capitalized, my craving for consistency is satisfied.
I wasn't saying they weren't real names (though we'd need to define what "real name" means to actually decide that). I was just saying that in order to fit into my personal model of "consistency" they only need to seem like they are real names.
Secondly, as I sort of hinted at in my first post, I acknowledge that it wouldn't really make much sense to design a policy around my personal visual preferences, which I realize are a bit culturally exclusive. Nonetheless, I can't help but be annoyed by some of the names I see on Facebook.
People have known me as MAD for over a decade now, and although I sometimes wish I could just go by Corbin, it's something that I'm stuck with, better or worse. Nomenclature is hard, and any attempt to shoehorn names into a single culture's rules is going to fail.