Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Posers

To regualar Facebook users it's a typical week when your roomate's identity or Profile Picture alternates between Borat and Jonathan Papelbon, but word on the street is some users are taking this too far, creating accounts and posing as these famous faces online. An October 26, 2007 article published by CBC News reports on the latest Facebook outrage, Ottawa Senator faces off against Facebook phonies.

Some NHL players are worried about the number of people posing as them on the popular social networking site Facebook. Ottawa Senators forward Mike Fisher says he discovered through friends that someone on Facebook — a website where people set up profiles and exchange messages and photos — was posing as him. "You know, they were e-mailing people, saying they were me and it wasn't," Fisher said. A number of other NHL players have also complained that people are subbing for them on Facebook.

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