Why does Facebook force me to lie?

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Facebook tries to be too clever for its own good. Right now I have tried - several times - to update my home location. Facebook refuses point blank to accept the truth of where I live. Instead it insists that I lie and put in a more generic location, viz Oxford, UK. The truth is that I live in a village just outside Oxford, but will Facebook allow that name? No it will not.

What makes Facebook worse is that is does not let me know that it has ignored my changes - it just continues on its merry way and overwrites them with its own version of where I live.

Come on facebook - stop being so snotty and allow the people to put in true home towns.