Fayyad friended Hasan on Facebook, perused her profile and learned that she's a screenwriter.

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It was a quirky, fun story, and the bride friended me on Facebook during the course of it.

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Someone had copied Weiss' profile, including his phone number, e-mail and family photos, and had friended more than 100 people.

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The impostor was broadcasting the real Rick Weiss' status updates via the fake account, probably because he had friended Weiss with another fake profile.

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She struck up a correspondence with her No. 1, a man in England, who eventually, after she friended him on Facebook, stopped writing her back.

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The latest story is the killing of 23-year-old Billie Jean Hayworth and her fiance Billy Clay Payne, after Hayworth un-friended 30-year-old Jenelle Potter on Facebook.

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No word on whether his wife has since de-friended him.

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She used the site to help promote her cancer awareness efforts and freely admits that she friended people she did not know in real life but who she thought would be interested in the cancer awareness cause.

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While it would suck to have your email and phone number handed over to (even more) spammers, a worse case scenario is that someone who friended you would download your account and use it to impersonate you and smear your reputation.

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