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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/13/2338200

Posted by simoniker on Thursday August 14, @07:44AM
 from the i'm-friends-with-jesus dept.

 jerkface writes "Matchmaking/personal networking site  Friendster is 
experiencing a 'problem'. Unruly individuals like John Locke, Socrates, 
Alf, and many incarnations of Jesus Christ are trying to take over the 
site, according to SFWeekly.com. For a few months, the 'fakesters' were 
mostly tolerated, so long as they didn't offend anyone with the images 
they posted. Fakester profiles exist claiming to be famous people (alive 
and dead), cities, buildings, abstract concepts, and - increasingly - 
Friendster CEO Jon Abrams. Abrams is now saying they're all going to be 
deleted because they ruin the site. Fakesters argue he's stifling the full 
potential of the site, and many people report that 100% genuine profiles 
have been deleted in the recent campaigns against fakesters."               

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