Maybe Mark S. Zuckerberg should change his name to Winklevoss. The Indianapolis lawyer with nearly the same name as Facebook founder Mark E. Zuckerberg has reportedly been kicked off the social networking site with "identity fraud" cited as the reason.


Meanwhile, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the Harvard alums who keep suing Mark E. Zuckerberg for an ownership stake in the multi-billion dollar company, get to keep their profiles.

"I hope it's all just a misunderstanding on their part," Zuckerberg the lawyer told the Indianapolis Star Wednesday.

"All my friends are upset with me because they think I de-friended them," he said said. "I've had to do a lot of explaining."

It's not the first run-in the bankruptcy attorney has had with Facebook. The 48-year-old Mark S. Zuckerberg told the Star that Facebook demanded a slew of identification papers before giving him a profile two years ago, including his driver's license, birth certificate and Indianapolis Bar Association license.

He's also had to deal with "about 500 friend requests a day," the newspaper reported last year. Not to mention a dozen or so calls a day to his office from Facebook users asking for customer support.

Zuckerberg said he stumbled across his namesake on Google several years ago when the Facebook founder, now 26, was still in high school. Mark S. Zuckerberg was himself a relatively big presence on the Internet at the time. He was named one of Indiana's Top 50 lawyers by Law & Politics and is regarded as a national authority on consumer bankruptcy law.

But now the search engines have little interest in Mark S. Zuckerberg, he told the newspaper. His younger namesake's exploits are splashed across media throughout the world, pushing links to the older Zuckerberg's clippings far down the search rankings.

"I was always on the first page, always number one. Now I'm pages and pages back. This guy is killing me," Mark S. Zuckerberg told the Star last October.

The lawyer is an admirer of Mark E. Zuckerberg's accomplishments, according to the newspaper, even though "[h]e swears [Facebook] ruined his marriage."

Perhaps as a consolation prize, Mark S. Zuckerberg said he once got great service from a Las Vegas reservations desk when he told them his name.

USA Yesterday reported that Mark S. Zuckerberg's Facebook account had been restored and the attorney received an apology from the social networking giant.