CAIRO — Facebook has close to 600 million users, and as of Monday, at least one baby named after it.
In honor of the role the social network played in the revolution in Egypt — which led to the departure of longtime President Hosni Mubarak — one Egyptian couple named their baby girl “Facebook,” TechCrunch reported.
Citing an article in Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, the technology blog reported that Jamal Ibrahim chose the name as a way to express his gratitude to the country’s youth. The girl’s family, friends, and neighbors in the Ibrahimia region gathered around the newborn to show their continuing support for the internet-aided revolution, the paper said.
The social networking site played a crucial role in the Egyptian uprising, so much so that it has widely been labeled “the Facebook Revolution.” Demonstrators used Facebook to organize protests, share information, and connect with the outside world.
There are five million Facebook users in Egypt, TechCrunch reported, more than any other country in the Middle East and North Africa region. Facebook has reported an increase in Egyptian users in the past month, with 32,000 Facebook groups and 14,000 pages created in the two weeks after January.
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