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title: "Enough for first name/last name BS"
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date: 2021-02-08 17:14:08 +0700
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tags: name culture inclusion awareness
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lang: en
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ref: first-name-last-name
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I keep seeing registration where I have to input my "First name" and my "Last name".
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What's the point? Isn't the user's full name just enough, if it's even needed?
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# Why you should avoid that
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It's blatantly ignorant!
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It assumes one must have a first name and last name to begin with.
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It is not the case for some country, such as Indonesia, where one can have
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just one name (also known as "mononym"). How are they supposed to fill your form?
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Those who do this often assume that given name (i.e. "first name") always comes first,
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and family name (i.e. "last name") comes last and display as such without asking.
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In many Asian countries, like China, Vietnam, or Korea,
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given name comes after family name. They also do this in Hungary.
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When they allow changing name order, they add a comma in between, also without asking.
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It is also not universally agreed upon where the middle names should go to.
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This is not a problem when the full name is not required (e.g. Facebook or Google account)
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but when full name is required (e.g. my school G-Suite account or for IELTS registration),
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it is problematic how they represent my name. A few lecturers whom I'm not close with
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keep referring to me by my middle name due to how Google displays my name.
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# Who do this?
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- Many web services, e.g. Facebook, Google, LinkedIn
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- Language certification tests: IELTS, TCF, DELF/DALF, ...
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# Proposed alternative
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- Just ask for full name. Governments do that and they're fine.
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- Ask how users want to be referred as, don't assume.
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I never want to be referred by my family name.
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- Maybe avoid asking for real name at the first place
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if you're just some online service. [Real name policy][real-name-bad] harms social network users.
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Even Google dropped that BS.
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[real-name-bad]: https://stallman.org/facebook.html#realname
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