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Lewton on Aug 3, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

I suspect the wait time for changing names on facebook are there to give the illusion that a real human looks at it.

AFAIK if you try to change your name to something obviously fake, like "Superman", it will reject it immediately

seunosewa on Aug 3, 2012 [–]

It's likely that the system is setup to reject obviously wrong names instantly to save the manual reviewers' time.

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