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| The 23-year-old Australian published a photo of his passport to prove his identity to Facebook |
FACEBOOK is having a hard time believing that 23-year-old Phuc Dat Bich is a real person.
Phuc Dat Bich has been repeatedly banned from hugely popular social network, Facebook.
The 23-year-old Australian man has resorted to publishing a photograph of his passport – in an effort to prove his name is real.
Phuc Dat Bich, pronounced Phoop Dook Bic, has had his Facebook account shut down numerous times.
The problems stems from a recent change to the Californian company's online policy, which now requires all users to their real names on the social network.Users are asked to refrain from any symbols, unusual characters, punctuation, religious titles, or “offensive or suggestive words of any kind” to their names to “keep our community safe”.Facebook appears to think Phuc Dat Bich falls into one of these categories and automatically banned the associated profile page."Facebook thinks I'm a terrorist. Apparently sending them a screenshot of my passport is not good enough for them to reopen my account," Isis Anchalee, a San Francisco engineer, tweeted following the ban.Meanwhile Mr Bich posted a similar story, once he was able to regain access to his Facebook account.
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| 69,500 people shared the Phuc Dat Bich's Facebook status |
"I find it highly irritating the fact that nobody seems to believe me when I say that my full legal name is how you see it," he wrote."I've been accused of using a false and misleading name of which I find very offensive. Is it because I'm Asian? Is it?"Mr Bich, who is of Vietnamese origin, shared a photograph of his passport on Facebook to prove it was his real name.Alongside the snap, he wrote "So just to put it out there. My name. Yours sincerely, Phuc Dat Bich"More than 61,000 Facebook users have shared the photograph.
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| Facebook changed its online policy so all users were required to use their real names |
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