General Question  richardhenry's avatar  How does Facebook deal
with two friends who have the same name?  Asked by richardhenry
(12628 points ) October 27th, 2008  Has anyone come across this
before? Surely things like the tagging interface for photos
(where the friend selector is just text and no avatar) would be
useless if you can’t tell two people apart.  Observing members:
0 Composing members: 0  6 Answers  La_chica_gomela's avatar
Yes, it lists their network in parenthesis their name. Of course
mine are in two different networks, so that’s actually helpful.
I’m not sure what it would do if they weren’t…  richardhenry's
avatar  Ahh I missed that. That’s helpful. I’d be surprised if
you had two people with the same name in the same network
anyway.  beccalynnx's avatar  i had two friend in the same
network with the same name. for a while, when sending event
invites or tagging, i just tagged them both, but eventually some
other friends decided that one of them had to change their name.
so one added her midd