Egyptian Father Names Baby 'Facebook'

Egyptian father Jamal Ibrahim has reportedly named his newborn daughter "Facebook" to honor the social media site's role in Egypt's revolution.

According to TechCrunch, Egypt's Al-Ahram newspaper reported the following:

A young man in his twenties wanted to express his gratitude about the victories the youth of 25th of January have achieved and chose to express it in the form of naming his firstborn girl "Facebook" Jamal Ibrahim (his name.) The girl's family, friends, and neighbors in the Ibrahimya region gathered around the new born to express their continuing support for the revolution that started on Facebook. "Facebook" received many gifts from the youth who were overjoyed by her arrival and the new name. A name [Facebook] that shocked the entire world.

Facebook was used to organize the initial January 25 protest in Tahrir Square. Since then, Egyptians taking part in the uprising used Twitter, YouTube and a host of other sites, in addition to Facebook, to communicate and coordinate.

[h/t CNN]

Comments

[Babymasr]

05:05 PM on 03/22/2011

This is a disgrace.

Spinsters want to raise fb'S stock price on second market so they write up this junk!
The Internet's biggest contribution to the Egyptian revolution was when the net went down!

Ten everyone gt onto the street and things began. Facebook sparks nothing, it is now just another tool to manufacture consent and keep us docile. When it was taken away then people got to work. Want to be free? Delete your facebook!

How do I know? I am Egyptian and was in Tahrir sq fighting during the bloodiest days. I saw many die as we battled to hold the sq on Feb 2nd from an army of gov thugs. We battled for 2 straight days with no food or water against Armed thugs. This is how we won our freedom. Not online! I get back here and now I am hearing about babies named facebook?

Instead of talkin about the life & death battle of Feb 2nd where over 100 egypians died we r hearing this racist garbage!!!! Thus was based off a joke article in an Egyptian news paper. Tech crunch doesn't give a damn about Egypt nor do they understand the Egyptian sense o humor, they are just pushing their agenda even if it means humiliating Egypt!

It only helped in egypt at the beginning because public meetings were to dangerous. After a point it became more an obstacle than a help. Thank god they took it down!

Wake up america!!!

[KimCS72]

12:32 PM on 03/02/2011

I can't imagine what she'll go through with a name like that. It's a good thing they didn't use Google. LOL

[iRise Media]

11:13 AM on 02/25/2011

Kudos to Facebook for being a catalyst to this revolution! http://bit.ly/ht8ZPP

[BMVB]

11:35 PM on 02/24/2011

He should have nameed her www.sportbloggers.com

[BobQueuePublic]

10:37 AM on 02/24/2011

It's kind of sad, a real-life Egyptian analog of Eddie Murphy as Buckwheat mocking black families by calling a kid "Cream of Wheat."

[Marcusarilius]

11:38 PM on 02/23/2011

Good thing "Yahoo" was off-line.

[marc english]

08:13 PM on 02/23/2011

"like"

[Maeve Hightower]

06:23 PM on 02/23/2011

That poor kid will probably be so teased about that name that he'll become a serial killer. That or every kid in Egypt will be named things like Yahoo for the next five years.

[mudshark12]

08:22 PM on 02/27/2011

The man had a daughter. However she will be so teased about that name....

[Jimmie Ahimsa Luthuli]

06:19 PM on 02/23/2011

I thought I was reading the Onion for a minute here!

[casskiru]

05:01 PM on 02/24/2011

Hah!

You would think right?

F&F, as they say.

[Dan Braunstein]

06:13 PM on 02/23/2011

Facebook meet Twitter...

[whatsyrdamage]

06:13 PM on 02/23/2011

/facepalm

[Sunbloom]

09:59 AM on 02/23/2011

This guy is great! That's how to do marketing.

Seize the moment America... Facebook is your comeback. We can recover world support, if we could stop being so snide and snickering and instead focus on the positive, and what unites America with the world.

[casskiru]

01:54 PM on 02/24/2011

Wait a minute now.......

are you really suggesting, as it seems you are, that Facebook will save America, cure its ills,
etc?

Facebook is the comeback of America? Really? That's what we've got? Facebook?!

If that's the case maybe we should just stay where we are.

[Sunbloom]

02:39 PM on 02/24/2011

My suggestion was that Egypt used Facebook to spark a revolution. That's what I mean by comeback, forging a positive bond between America and Egypt, et al.

But America is just full of cynical, whining, negative comments.

[Trittydi]

02:33 AM on 02/23/2011

I love this guy ... I feel a bit concerned about his daughter's name - but I love this guy.
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[Sangela M]

08:17 AM on 02/24/2011

He should have considered 'baby friendly' names like Bebo or Hi5 instead.