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I have a Mac running Mountain Lion, an iPhone 4 running iOS 6 and an original iPad running iOS 5.
iOS 6 and Mountain Lion brought Facebook integration, which among other things, lets me link the Facebook information of my contacts, with the iCloud entry I already have for them. Nice touch, I thought.
I have done this linking for most of the entries on my iPhone and it is nice and neat now. In each case I can choose which name to use for the unified card, and in all cases I have chosen the iCloud entry as the name, because some of my contacts have 'comedy' names for themselves on Facebook and I want to control how I name them on my phone.
All is well, but these contacts peridoically rename themselves back to the Facebook entry name, and I have to manually reset it. It stays like that for a while and then again, all of a sudden it changes back. I'm not totally sure but it could be an iTunes sync which is resetting the names to Facebook defaults, or maybe an iCloud thing? I'm lost because now there are so many sources to check and potential places where the wrong setting could be applied across all the devices.
How can I stop this happening? I don't want my contacts renaming themselves in my phone list against my wishes. Why are my choices about which name to use for the unified card being overridden?
Anyone have any ideas?
I'm tempted to turn the bloody Facebook integration off as it seems to be a bit more trouble than it's worth. As usual, nice idea but very beta-esque...
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I have this exact same problem. One solution is having your friends change their fake aliases on Facebook to their real bloody names, but I realise this is no easy fix.

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* https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Pressing+Tab+key+does+not+select+menus+or+buttons#os=mac
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