Everyone these days seems to have an online-dating story or a friend with online-dating stories.
After seeing a job listing online, Lauren Baer reached out to a friend on Facebook who worked for the company hiring.
Additional problems cropped up when attempting to party with a friend to play online.
But once an off-colour joke or ill-considered rant has been emailed to a friend or posted online, it can be much harder to get rid of.
"Most of us would want to help a friend in need, but if it's an online friend, and they want you to wire money, you should double-check, " FBI spokesman Jason Pack said.
If enough symptoms match the operator's list, they're given an online voucher so a "flu friend" can collect a course of Tamiflu.
"She was grave in her humor, which made it deadly, unexpected, truly funny and dauntingly intelligent, " wrote the gossip columnist Liz Smith, a longtime friend, in an online remembrance.
Police said that a criminal gang masqueraded as an online gaming friend and abducted him after arranging to meet him last week.
Cassidy, Woon, Fong and a fourth friend started Ultimate Arena, a Web site hosting online tournaments.
Then a longtime friend, Max Woon, urged him to look at online games.
And of course, co-op and online multiplayer action is available if you want to include a friend or try your luck against an opponent.
If you and your friend are online and on Facebook, you can launch a video chat with one click, although it does require a quick download of an applet.
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Providing a friend-sourced solution to the problem of never quite knowing whose online recommendations to trust.
D. in physical chemistry at UCLA. But before he left Broadcom, he had gotten a pitch from a childhood gaming friend, Richard Dakan, who asked him to fund an online game about heroes.
Online they are sharing, friend validating, researching, learning and developing a point of view.
It also takes time to build online networks through the organic but valuable spread of friend-of-a-friend connections.
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Police in Singapore are reporting what appears to be a ring (or rings) of online scam artists who use attractive women to "friend" victims on social sites, seduce them into cybersex on webcams and then threaten to post images or videos of them online if they don't pay up.
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