Would you ever name your child Facebook?....... Nope, I didn’t think so. But a man in Egypt thought it was an all right name. He named his firstborn daughter Facebook in honor of the role the social network played in the recent revolution.
It has been reported by the Al-Ahram that the Internet played a huge role in how things played out in Egypt as Hosni Mubarak's regime toppled.
Facebook became a big deal in Egypt after all of the social networks had been shut down by the Egyptian government. Nobody was able to get into the websites until they started to use proxy websites to “get around” the blocking of the websites. Because of the fact that the “blocking” was no longer working, they began threatening to shut down the internet in all of Egypt.
Facebook began to be a strong force in the protests. The youth of Egypt were able to be reached and everyone got in on the protest. Hosni stepped down after a wave of protests. After 30 years of unhappy people, Egypt finally celebrated. Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram reports that Gamal Ibrahim gave his daughter the name “to express his joy at the achievements made by the youth.”
By: Beatrice Ponce
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