Facebook tells Ann Marie to ‘Effin off’

AN Effin woman has been forced to start an online campaign to get Facebook to accept the name of her native place after the social networking giant branded her homeplace’s name as ‘offensive.’

Ann Marie Kennedy, who works in the University of Limerick, says that she, along with several more friends, have been attempting to insert the word ‘Effin’ into the homeplace section of their Facebook sites for several months, but to no avail.

She even tried to start a Facebook page entitled, Please get my hometown Effin recognised, but it was blocked by the social networking site as well.