Weirdo Facebook Bug to Waste Your Day With

I know many of my facebook fans and loved ones would have seen the recent Facebook prank/ bug/ geek circulating in the blogosphere.

It's currently being passed around Facebook as a "enter in the last three digits of your phone number and Facebook will tell you your phone's name!" Kinda thing. 

Check out the quote below to see how the prank goes.

Do you know that every SIM CARD
has a name???
Try this to know the name of
yours.
I want replies!!!
... .
.
.
1st step:
From your phone number, take
the last 3 numbers,
ex: 08181844992, take "992"
only.
2nd step: In the comment box,
type @*[992:0]
3rd step: Remove the sign * and
press enter in the comment box
below, post then see the miracle.
oya lets stat playing

This is no bug neither is it a magic and obviously its not your SIM CARD name. Haba?! How can your Sim Card bear Chinco name? Weeeeiiiiirrrrrd!


Looking at the names the codes generate, it's more likely a database coordinates of user accounts or Facebook employees.

Well, I tried out other last digits of my cousin, and sister to confirm theirs.I did a little more tinkering with it and seems that the final 0 can be any digit or letter and it still works. You can get other weird results with more messing around.

As far as I can tell it's entirely useless, but what does it all mean!? Are these the secret coordinates to a South Korean sub? The recipe for KFC? The cheat-code for unlimited lives... in life?

"This isn't a bug. The number string corresponds to the ID number of a Facebook page or profile. Sticking it between brackets — which are preceded by an "@" symbol — tells Facebook to convert the number to its corresponding text (be it a user name or a page title).

The "0" — or other number — after the colon is there to prevent the converted text from turning into a link to the corresponding page or profile (as a tag normally does).

You can use this trick with longer number strings as well. For example, @[100001183103238:0] will convert to my name, as "100001183103238" corresponds to my profile. (You can confirm this by going to facebook.com/100001183103238)

Or alternatively you can enter something like @[322080934472296:0] and it'll convert to the text "Don't Panic! This is just a test." (Which corresponds to the title of a Facebook page I made...which happens to have that particular ID number.)"

Geeks and conspiracy theorists, please don't go nuts pondering the quotes above. In the meantime, I've gotta go explain to my girlfriend why I'm posting other women's names in comments.