Lincoln, Neb. – Facebook is not friends with Robin Kills The Enemy.
The social networking site, which enables millions of “friends” to stay in touch with one another, has disabled the account of the 28-year-old Lakota woman from the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Facebook assumed Kills The Enemy was a fake name.
Now Kills The Enemy — yes, that’s her real name — has lost touch with hundreds of her Facebook friends. “I’m getting used to it, but it still pisses me off,” Kills The Enemy said in a telephone interview from He Dog School in Parmelee, S.D., where she works as a computer technician and mentor.
On Tuesday, Kills The Enemy received an e-mail notice from Facebook that read:
“Fake names are a violation of our Terms of Use. Facebook requires users to provide their full first and last names (i.e. no initials). Nicknames can be used in the form of FirstName ‘NickName’ LastName, but only if they are a variation on your real first or last name, such as ‘Bob’ instead of ‘Robert’.
“If you would like to use this profile again, just get back to us with your real name, and we will reactivate the account for you.”
