Facebook bans village names

Facebook bans village name for being offensive

Facebook users from a village called Effin in Ireland cannot use the name after the social networking website banned it for being ‘offensive’.
This was discovered by residents of the Irish village who said they could not register the village name as their place of birth on the website, The Sun reported.
Ann Marie Kennedy, who was born in the village, has launched a campaign to get it recognised by Facebook.
But when she tried to create a Facebook group called “Please get my hometown Effin recognised”, it was also rejected.
“It came back with an error message saying ‘offensive’. I would like to be able to put Effin on my profile page and so would many other Effin people around the world to proudly say that they are from Effin, but it won’t recognise that,” she said.
Kennedy is trying to get the village’s population of around 1,000 behind her cause.