Apparently my mother didn’t think about the fact that computer programmers/web developers are lazy when she named me. About 80% of the time, when I try to type in my full name for a display name on a web site, I get the error message, “Display names cannot include spaces or special characters.” This is really frustrating to me because my name is Brie’Anne, not BrieAnne or Brieanne or even Brie.
I am not sure why my password must contain special characters or numbers but my display name cannot. There must be a reason that I am not allowed to put an apostrophe in a web form other than the laziness of the programmer/developer. If anyone knows and can explain it to me, I am willing to listen to reason, otherwise, I will continue to blame it on laziness.
