DeusThe times we live in. #LinkedIn asking for verifying your identity via Aadhar Card. #Privacy #India. Courtesy, a friend. @mastodonindians
Hemish/हेमिश/ਹੇਮਿਸ਼/ہیمِش@Deus @mastodonindians and the same #LinkedIn forces me to add a last name, while I am legally #mononymous i.e. all my official records including aadhar, birth certificate, passport, school marksheets, don't have any surname or last name or middle name. All of them just have a single name "Hemish"
Arun Mani J@hemish @Deus @mastodonindians oh we are talking about names and poorly designed forms?? My personal favorite is the forms which force you to have three names, no more no less. The worst of the worst is those of the format First Name, Middle Name, Family Name. I wonder how narrow minded the person who suggested the system is....
@hemish @Deus @mastodonindians The first issue is, they require you to fill all the three places. And you are in a big trouble if your name doesn't match the format. For example, my name is Arun Mani, here Mani isn't my family name or anything, just my name. J is my initial, that is the first letter of my father's name.
@mastodonindians the next issue is addressing. After digging up your family tree and submitting the form with your "made up" names using your great grand father's kingdom of reign when he went to war against Alexander The Great, you are now annoyed by how the system now addresses you... Taking again my name as example, some thing J is my name and address me as J. People who are from India, address me as Mani. People from Tamil Nadu (my native) use Arun (my preferred way of calling)
@mastodonindians my suggestion to everyone of us having to ever implement a name form.
1. A single field that just accepts your name as a single string. Not as a partition of fragments.
1.1. For love of God, don't have a limit on the length of the field to 32 or so characters. Keep it at least 128 or so.
3. Have another field called Display Name. Use this name to address the person.
A. If you are taking username, then simply use Display Name only
(This is my first thread sorry if I abused tags)
1. A single field that just accepts your name as a single string. Not as a partition of fragments.
1.1. For love of God, don't have a limit on the length of the field to 32 or so characters. Keep it at least 128 or so.
3. Have another field called Display Name. Use this name to address the person.
A. If you are taking username, then simply use Display Name only
(This is my first thread sorry if I abused tags)