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@MuseumShuffle@mastodon.social

Post #2420301

2025-06-05 00:50 UTC

It’s 2025 and I can’t sign up for a T-Mobile free trial because their form doesn’t think that a two character last name is a valid name. 🙄

Replies (17)

  • @MuseumShuffle@mastodon.social I once made this mistake in an app and I'm sorry.

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  • @axxl@mastodon.social 2025-06-05 01:32

    @MuseumShuffle@mastodon.social your last name isn't Wuwiththeweather?

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  • @jamie_blumberg@hachyderm.io 2025-06-05 01:32

    @MuseumShuffle@mastodon.social Embrace chaos: your new name is Chris Wuuuuuuuuuuu

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  • @kai@ajin.la 2025-06-05 01:44

    @MuseumShuffle@mastodon.social woo

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  • @NeoNacho@mastodon.social 2025-06-05 02:01

    @MuseumShuffle@mastodon.social best name

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  • @vatthikorn@techhub.social 2025-06-05 02:05

    @MuseumShuffle@mastodon.social I have the opposite problem, especially with my real first name having 10 characters 🤬

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  • @adam@iosdev.space 2025-06-05 02:13

    @MuseumShuffle@mastodon.social You can have a few letters from mine, it’s too long. How about Wuzer?

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  • @averyvine@mastodon.social 2025-06-05 04:41

    @MuseumShuffle@mastodon.social https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/

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  • @Zugschlus@zug.network 2025-06-06 05:27

    @MuseumShuffle@mastodon.social I once experienced a shop that wouldn't accept my first name because it's too short. When I wrote the complaint I realized that the shop owner was a guy named Dirk.

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  • @MuseumShuffle@mastodon.social Ah, the (hopefully not) eternal life struggle. I have an apostrophe in my last name. Sometimes the computer says it’s ok, most of the time it says it’s not. It’s really fun having a gubment system tell me my own name has an illegal character in it

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  • @MuseumShuffle@mastodon.social I feel your pain.. some forms won't believe a two character first name is possible either. Both my grandmothers had 3 or 4 long first names so my parents rebelled and called me Jo!

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  • @Gorfram@beige.party 2025-06-06 07:23

    @MuseumShuffle@mastodon.social Just wait 'til Malcolm X tries to sign up. *yes, I realize that being dead is probably the least of the reasons that Friend X would never bother to try

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  • @flostern@berlin.social 2025-06-06 07:35

    @MuseumShuffle@mastodon.social hope you are not living in the French town called “Y”. Validation hell

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  • @MineMcG@mastodon.social 2025-06-06 07:49

    @MuseumShuffle@mastodon.social My McG had same problem. Doesn't wanna believe a word can have no vowel

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  • @MuseumShuffle@mastodon.social I used to work at an international airport. I had to ask a man why his passport had his surname as (single letter), while his boarding pass had his surname as (that same single letter, but twice). The airline system was programmed with a two-letter minimum. Because they "knew" nobody has a one-letter surname.

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  • @dtwx@mastodon.social 2025-06-06 08:02

    @MuseumShuffle@mastodon.social I can somewhat empathise as I used to have a hyphenated surname that was 16 characters and there was a 15 character limit in a lot of cases.

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  • @haploc@fedi.cr-net.be 2025-06-06 08:12

    @MuseumShuffle@mastodon.social @thibaultmol@en.osm.town I know a person who just has "O" as their last name.

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