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When the Facebook developer Platform was first announced, thoughts of brilliant applications using Facebook’s amazing viral marketing ability was all I could think about. It was touted as an online revolution. Colleges ran classes on developing Facebook applications and every Tom, Dick and Harry had a play around with FBML (Facebook Markup Language) – myself included.

Just tried to change my name on facebook and before it gave me this:

Before confirming your name change request, please read the following.

* Your Facebook profile must be attached to your real name.
* You must include your full name.
* Celebrity names, nicknames, or other fake names are not allowed and will not be approved.
* Obscenity, curses, and swear words are not allowed and will not be approved.
* ISn’t~ ThIs <3 AnN0YiNg 2 ReAd? Non-standard capitalization and special characters are not allowed and will not be approved.
* Do not try to combine sentences into one word; Jane Lookatmysupercoolnewnickname Smith will not be approved.
* We review all name changes, so this may take a while.

No wonder it hasn’t been taken over by the deviants yet.

In attempting to load our 1 year old mascot up with a myspace, I came across the “Not elligible” error. This was because I was trying to sign him up as a 1 year old, which was a mistake, because everyone knows a 1 year old dog can’t use myspace.

It turns out once you get this error, it must store some sort of cookie/session info that you are inelligible as repeat attempts at ages between 0 and 110ish were all denied until I switched browser.

I picked a random year and thought that was the end of it, but it turns out it wasn’t. When I went in to do some general fan maintenance for young Rowdy, I decided to try and change the age back to 1 and again it denied me. So I tried to make it 101 and thats when I got the amusing error informing me that I must be between 14 and 100 to use myspace.

I guess they have no plans to launch myspace bingo or myspace lawn bowls anytime soon.