"A lot of my friends are trying to hustle to buy a place before all the Facebook people get liquid, " he said.

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And I had a lot of my friends in the deal.

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"A lot of my friends I never saw again, " Brianne says.

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Over the past week I've noticed that a lot of my friends have joined, and that everywhere I go online the name Pinterest seems to crop up.

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"All I want to say about last week was that it was a brutal week in my life and a lot of my friends' lives, " he said.

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Now a lot of my friends and people are using it in this new way to communicate that isn't this public blast of information on your Facebook wall or Twitter.

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"I'm a recent immigrant myself, and I've talked to a lot of my friends who have made tough decisions about moving to the U.S., and some of them are thinking of going back, " Kaushik says.

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For me and a lot of my restaurant friends, turnover is not bad.

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Maybe a lot of my really good friends are still avoiding Facebook.

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My friends and a lot of my readers will be the beneficiaries of these depressed home prices.

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I'm a Gen-Xer and I've just noticed that like myself and a lot of my buddies and my friends, we have these sort of soundtracks that we carry around in our iPods.

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Today, all that matters is that the new question has produced, at least among my friends, a lot of sweet updates.

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My new friends in India know a lot of celebrities, as India is very Bollywood-driven.

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