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If your name is 'Null,' you may have problems doing anything online
Topic Started: Mar 28 2016, 05:41 AM (476 Views)
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It’s one thing to have a name that is unusual to those around you, but when it confuses websites and computing systems in general, it’s a whole different kind of headache. What do you do if you go by just one name? What if your last name consists of just one letter? These problems have arisen in the past, and continue to frustrate users well into the digital age.

The BBC reports on one woman who is struggling with her taken name. Jennifer Null was warned by her husband before she took his surname that there would be some problems. After their marriage, the couple moved, as most newlyweds do. The problems began for her when she tried to book their flight. “We moved almost immediately after we got married so it came up practically as soon as I changed my name, buying plane tickets,” she says. She got an error message from most websites, which assumed that she was leaving the surname field blank. She was getting messages to try again. When Null got fed up and called the airlines for help, the employees on the other end didn’t believe her.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/name-null-might-cause-glitch-030153482.html
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