That’s right, an Egyptian man has, as a show of appreciation to Facebook in helping to organise the January 25th protests in Cairo, named his baby Facebook.
According to one of the most popular Egyptian newspapers, Al-Ahram, a man in in his twenties named his first born baby girl “Facebook”, as a tribute to the social network that many people in Egypt feel brought down the government.
Here’s that translation from TechCrunch:
A New Day
Man Names His Newborn Girl Facebook
A young man in his twenties wanted to express his gratitude about the victories the youth of 25th of January have achieved and chose to express it in the form of naming his firstborn girl “Facebook” Jamal Ibrahim (his name.) The girl’s family, friends, and neighbors in the Ibrahimya region gathered around the new born to express their continuing support for the revolution that started on Facebook. “Facebook” received many gifts from the youth who were overjoyed by her arrival and the new name. A name [Facebook] that shocked the entire world.
[Source : New York Magazine, Gawker, TechCrunch]
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