"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.
Police said that a criminal gang masqueraded as an online gaming friend and abducted him after arranging to meet him last week.
Everyone these days seems to have an online-dating story or a friend with online-dating stories.
She asked to be his friend online, and at first she worried he wouldn't respond.
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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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Additional problems cropped up when attempting to party with a friend to play online.
Online they are sharing, friend validating, researching, learning and developing a point of view.
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.
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.
After seeing a job listing online, Lauren Baer reached out to a friend on Facebook who worked for the company hiring.
Steinberg would say that parents need to "friend" their kids or follow them online.
It also takes time to build online networks through the organic but valuable spread of friend-of-a-friend connections.
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Fans of online play will be happy to learn that the friend codes for Nintendo 3DS are specific to each Nintendo 3DS system, not each game.
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.
Cassidy, Woon, Fong and a fourth friend started Ultimate Arena, a Web site hosting online tournaments.
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.
Then a longtime friend, Max Woon, urged him to look at online games.
Castro told "America's Most Wanted" -- as seen in archived video posted online, including on Slate's website -- that her friend loaned her 50 cents, so she could use the phone and ask her mother if the two could spend the afternoon together at DeJesus' house.
"The problem is that today's online services turn friendship into fast food -- wrapping everyone in 'friend' paper, " Google executive Vic Gundotra writes in a blog post.
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.
Providing a friend-sourced solution to the problem of never quite knowing whose online recommendations to trust.
Its new best friend is Overture, which already provides search services for Microsoft's MSN online service.
For example, your friend Jane shares on your News Feed that she bought jeans at the Haute Jeans store online.
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