Woman blocked from creating social media accounts because of offensive name

Natalie wasn't able to make an online account because of her name - and it happens to people all the time apparently. Photo / Twitter

A woman has been blocked from creating social media accounts after it was deemed her last name was too "offensive".

Natalie Weiner attempted to create a social media account but when she put her last name into the correct field, she received a message saying "offensive language discovered in the last name field".

Taking to Twitter, Weiner wrote: "This is without a doubt the best thing that has ever happened to me... I am weeping."

this is without a doubt the best thing that's ever happened to me pic.twitter.com/rnVkmhB2dy

— Natalie Weiner (@natalieweiner) August 28, 2018

Weiner's tweet has had close to 60,000 likes and more than 11,000 shares.

But she's not the first one who has struck issues trying to set up online accounts.

Weiner was flooded with numerous replies from people whose names are too rude for the internet.

A man called Philip Sporn commented: "When I got my computer I had to set my last name as 'Spron' because Sporn contains offensive language". Someone called Ben Schmuch said: "Happens to me all the time".

Others had similar issues.

Been there

— Matt Cummings (@itsmattcummings) August 29, 2018

As a Dickman I know the struggle is real

— Mike Dickman (@TheMikeDickman) August 29, 2018

For me just occasional giggles from the U.K.

— Brian Wankum (@brianwankum) August 29, 2018

Weiner replied to her post, writing "those of us with offensive last names are here and we will not be silenced".

Many websites will put banned words or phrases into their system to stop people from using inappropriate titles.