How do you change your facebook name to a nickname/funny name??

[Philip]

I already know about the alternative name option but that's in the parenthesis at the side, but I want my actual displayed name to be a nickname. Specifically "EverybodyHates Phil". It says that they prefer you to use a real name but I see people with apostrophes and other characters in their name so how did they do that?

[abraXus]

facebook used to allow this, but they dont anymore - they now expect you to always use your real name, because people were abusing it

if you see a fake name like that, they just havent been reported yet - go ahead and report them for it and their account will get suspended for breaking the rules

there is no trick to get around it