You may have seen the Facebook meme going around which said
"Apparently your phone has a name. If you type the following into the comment box on this status, you'll see your phone's name: @*[123:0]. Replace the 123 with the last three digits of your phone, then remove the *. Then post"
If you have seen this post on Facebook and tried it, you know that something does happen when you do this. You get a name. However it is not the name of your phone. The numbers reference individual Facebook accounts and typing in this set of characters gives you the name of the person associated with that account. It can even be more than 3 digits.
According to Mike Tuttle at WebProNews:
The three digits in the character string are Facebook account numbers, likely from early account holders (the first 1000) at Harvard, where Facebook launched. The character string in question returns the name associated with that account number.
Let’s check out the name I got: “Daniel Koh”. There is a Daniel Koh on FB. He did attend Harvard. And, thanks to the new Timeline, I can easily see that he joined FB on February 8, 2004 – the month Facebook launched. (link)
The lower numbers give you the names of people who attended Harvard in 2004, the earliest Facebook accounts. @[4:0] gives you Mark Zuckerberg
So much for finding out "the name of your cellphone" !
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