To increase your happiness, you may want to consider friending more miserable-seeming people on Facebook.
Hackers commonly sow social spam by creating false Facebook profiles and then "friending" people they don't know.
She had the nagging sense she was wasting her youth until vintage-clothing eBay sellers started friending her on MySpace.
Last summer, a Texas man was sentenced to two days of community service for "friending" a plaintiff in a car-wreck case.
Indeed, safety experts generally advise against logging in as their children, or even "friending" them as a means of keeping watch.
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The judge decided that the heated Facebook conversation did not constitute harassment and that the non-profit erred in de-friending the workers.
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"Many people have a hidden agenda for finding and friending an ex, so be honest about why you're reaching out, " says Bonior.
Zuckerberg was very candid with Vargas, inviting him into his house, introducing him to his girlfriend, and even friending him on Facebook.
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One option: granting members of the jury pool free access to the court's wi-fi network in exchange for temporarily "friending" his office.
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Meanwhile, Goldman and the other banks which hope to turn these vehicles into a big business should consider friending some good lawyers.
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Unlike Facebook, Color eliminates the acts of "friending" and selecting privacy settings.
Why does the Show-Me State not want its teachers friending their flocks?
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He, too, links the success of digital coupons to the emergence of online social-networking -- calling Groupon an extension of the "friending" functionality that sites such as Facebook and Twitter have popularized.
And to be fair, despite its similarities, Half the Sky: The Game is no FarmVille, the kind of social activity that this reporter instantly blocks and often even is grounds for an instant de-friending.
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