Woman called Yoda blocked from Facebook

A woman claims she was blocked from joining Facebook because she has the same name as a famous Star Wars character.

Yoda, a Jedi Master, is famous for his inverted speech patterns Credit: Photo: REUTERS

Hiroko Yoda says she made several attempts to sign up to the popular social networking site but her applications were always met with an error message...

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