While American parents worry that their children spend too much time on Facebook, Egyptian parents call their children the name of this site.
Egyptian Jamal Ibrahim gave his first daughter the name Facebook in memory of the role of this social media in organizing protests in Tahrir Square and beyond. Accordingly, the full name of the girl was Facebook Jamal Ibrahim.
As it is known, Google’s
We Are Khaled Said page created by Facebook employee Google, served as a focal point for coordinating anti-government protests until Mubarak’s resignation.
A family of girls, friends and neighbors gathered around the newborn to express their support for the revolution that started on Facebook. Facebook received many gifts from young people who were overjoyed because of her birth and her name.
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It is noteworthy that the Al-Ahram publication, which is almost entirely owned by the Egyptian government,
writes about this.
According
to TechCrunch blogger Alexia Tsotsis, the Internet as a whole should receive the Nobel Peace Prize this year for all that it has done for democracy in the Middle East and North Africa, but giving the names to children after sites is still not the best idea. As she writes, she would not want a little Facebook to study with a little AOL or, say, a little Yahoo. Even if you accept that the name Quora for a girl sounds cute enough.
Meanwhile, the number of Facebook users in Egypt since last month has been increasing and is already five million. They created 32 thousand groups and 14 thousand pages. Facebook has even got a temporary military government and created its own
fan page . And although being a place of political uprisings was not the original purpose of a social network created on the campus of an American college, Facebook's head Mark Zuckerberg clearly has reason to be proud.