Egyptian Newly Born Girl Named “Facebook”

Posted by Shazy on Monday, February 21, 2011

An Egyptian man, Jamal Ibrahim called his newly born daughter Facebook to express support for the revolution the organizers of which were actively using social networking websites, TechCrunch website reported referring to Al-Ahram newspaper.
“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’,” the website quotes Egyptian newspaper.
Revolution in Egypt was first staged via social networking websites and partially broke out with the creation of anti-government groups on Facebook calling for the first protests in Cairo.
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