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In my new book,“Facebook Addiction: The Life & Times of Social Networking Addicts”, there is a character named Zoe Mecklin that sets up a Facebook Account for her Yorkshire Terrier, Fluffy. The goal of this entry was to profile some real Facebook users that have set up FB Accounts for their pets.

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It would appear that married folks are CREEPING on Facebook. A new study states that 1 in 5 divorces are blamed on the popular social networking site, Facebook. 20% of 5,000 divorce papers analyzed by CNN source, Divorce-Online, made references to Facebook. Spouses were accused of having sexual chats with Online Friends. This takes our Facebook Addiction term "SNEAKING" to the next level.

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Teenage violence is now viral via Social Networking Sites like Facebook. On December 23^rd 2009, Salum Kombo, 18, of London, was stabbed to death over a Facebook Wall Post.

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Are you HUNGRY? If so, maybe you should get a job at Facebook. Forget free massages, at work spa treatments, or 24-hour health club services. It is all about FOOD. Guess what? It is working.

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You are serving a 7-year bid for aggravated burglary. You hatch out an escape plan like Wentworth aka “Michael Scofield” from the T.V show “Prison Break.” It actually works. You are now an escaped PRISONER aka FUGITIVE and besides good food, sex, and FREEDOM, you also miss FACEBOOK.

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Facebook has changed they way I experience the holidays. Since several of my relatives in Canada have joined we can now keep in touch and wish each other well, share photos and share stories with the click of a button. The convenience is priceless. However, this year I had a friend in New York post a good question just before thanksgiving, “should I mass text or facebook everyone this turkey day?” I realized that last year I did just that, mass text and post up a status change. How pathetic and impersonal! I decided he was right. For friends I am not particularly close with I did still wish them well via facebook but for people I call family they got something more than a remote message.

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This is a sad case of child manipulation with social networking being used as the tool. A 19-year (New Berlin) Wisconsin man, Anthony Stancl, posed as a girl and convinced 31 New Berlin Eisenhower high school boys to send him nude pictures. He then used those nude pictures to blackmail them into performing sexual acts.

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You are detective driving your HUMMER through the BIG SNOW STORM of 2009. All of a sudden snowballs start flying at your HUMMER. You are visibly pissed and come out of your car, only to be met with more snowballs. You then brandish your GUN.

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I found my love because of facebook usage. He saw my picture about a year ago through a mutual friend we had and realized we went to the same elementary school. He was a year younger than me, however, and we did not know each other. At any rate, he thought I was attractive and decided to friend me.

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Do think you spend too much time on Facebook? Don’t feel bad, you are not alone. According to Comscore, Facebook Accounts for 5.5% of all time spent online in the U.S. That is a pretty HUGE percentage for a single Internet site.

I guess, “Facebook Addiction” is EXTREMELY relevant… LOL.

Additional Sources Mashable

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This was the question that my team and I pondered upon planning the Book Release Party for “Facebook Addiction: The Life & Times of Social Networking Addicts.”

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As a communication and relationship expert I have been in no shortage of providing advice, tips and support for those looking to have more connection, communication and romance in their relationships. The irony of all that was that I was not in the relationship of my dreams. After ending that relationship just a few short weeks ago I threw down the gauntlet with the powers that BE and said "Enough is Enough." I layed down the law and explained that I was done playing in the little league and that if I wasn't going to get BIG love in my own relationship, then quite simply I was done.

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Tanya P recently left her husband of less than a year because of Facebook. Tanya and her ex-hubby actually reconnected via facebook when he befriended her. Her junior high school crush, Tanya was still smitten by what she “knew” of ex-hubby when they were teenagers. Cute, charming, popular – he was an athlete and got all the girls attention. So maybe her ego was stroked a bit by his attraction.

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Boy meets girl. Girl meets boy. They court for a while. Boy and Girl fall in love. They state their LOVE to the world and finally decide to get married. The preacher stands before them and pronounces them man and wife. At that moment they PAUSE and ...

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Addictions? I have always scoffed at the thought of myself possibly being addicted to anything other than love, fun and okay, chocolate. I drink beers and take Motrins as needed, and certainly have never messed with cigarettes or heroin, so I’ve kept myself safe from those monkeys on my back.

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In these days of technology, we have introduced our parents to texting. Now it’s time for the next stage in evolution, Facebook!!! Below are some stories of Mothers staying in touch with their children via Facebook.

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So, you’re on medical leave from work due to depression. Your insurance company is sending you monthly checks as part of your benefits package. You visit your doctor. He suggests that you have a little a fun. Of course, you should always take the doctor’s advice. You know - advice like exercise, vitamins, apples, etc. So why should this prescription of FUN be any different?

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There is an overall concern that Facebook has been breeding jealousy in couples that use it. In the article "Facebook Can Threaten Relationships" it states that, "Social psychologists from the University of Guelph in Canada queried college students who were in romantic relationships about their Facebook use. Their preliminary findings, described in the journal CyberPsychology & Behavior, suggest that rather than enhancing communication between romantic partners, Facebook use may be fueling wild flights of jealous investigation, as users in relationships perceive hints of potential infidelity and then scramble to find evidence of a partner's unfaithful thoughts or behavior."

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So you're at a club having a good time, dancing on stage. You notice someone giving you mean looks. You think nothing of it and continue enjoying yourself. You dismiss the gritty looks, to a tad bit of "HATE." Out of nowhere, those mean looks get violent. The person walks up and grabs you off the stage, onto the floor, and then smashes glass in your face.

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We have all seen the tight leather wearing, whip dangling, physically/verbally abusive portrayals of S&M (Sadomasochism) on T.V or the movies. A random picture that pops into my head is a character from Pulp Fiction referred to as “The Gimp.” Guess you had to have seen the movie. Another thought was a random encounter with a woman at a bar who told me that was her profession. She worked at a club where men paid her to beat the crap out of them. I found the whole thing rather interesting and because of my blogging ways, I wanted to tape it or actually witness a “BEATING.” Well, needless to say, I never got the opportunity.

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So you’re at home and update your status with something random like your hunger for “pancakes.” The next day, cops pick you up on a robbery charge. At the trial, your lawyers use your Facebook status as an alibi. The district attorney subpoenas Facebook to verify that the status update was indeed typed from your home computer. Guess what? The good folks at Facebook validate that your status update was posted from your home computer. All charges get dropped. You are now FREE.

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I've been fortunate to read the Advanced Readers Copy as I have been researching the topic of Facebook/Social Networking Addiction for one of my graduate courses. And I can certainly relate to the vignettes illustrated in this book.

As a counseling student, and dedicated user of Facebook since signing up in 2004, I have spent countless hours connecting with friends, writing on their walls, super-poking, buying them (buy your friends), partaking in surveys/trivia, playing a week long session of scrabulous (before it got removed), and the list goes on. I have routinely checked my Mafia Wars character even before getting out of bed in the morning (and I'll perhaps check it after blogging this post before going to bed).

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An old buddy of mine, John found me recently on Facebook. This isn’t particularly interesting or out of the ordinary. Just about everyone has had old acquaintances find them on Facebook, right? Without the curiosity of wondering what happened to old friends, Facebook wouldn’t even exist, would it? Myspace would because there’s millions of crappy bands and wannabe porn stars to populate it. So when John finds me it opens a rabbit hole to all of these other old friends. One person in this rabbit hole is Jeremy.

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I was Facebook stalked my freshman year of college. It was in 2004, right when Facebook was becoming big. My privacy settings allowed other UCSB students to view all of my info.

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AS AN EXPERT IN PR AND OWNER OF A PR COMPANY AND SOMEONE WHO HAS PERSONALLY BOOKED THE MOST IMPORTANT MEDIA VENUES FROM OPRAH TO THE NY TIMES, YOU WOULD THINK I AM PRETTY SMART. BUT NOT ALWAYS. ANYONE CAN FALL PREY TO THEIR SWEET MEMORIES OF THE PAST, ESPECIALLY HIGH SCHOOL ACQUAINTENCES WHO WERE GREAT, WELL-LOVED KIDS ON CAMPUS. THIS STORY IS ESPECIALLY GALLING TO ME, BECAUSE I WAS ALWAYS THE ONE WHO WARNED CLIENTS TO DO BACKGROUND CHECKS ON PEOPLE.

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On February 8, 2009 Angela Woodson-Cooper and I met on FB (Facebook) through a mutual friend. After jokingly calling her my cousin, we (Angela and I) decided to do some research.

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It was a cold and rainy night when I was sitting at home. Bored as I was I started browsing around on Facebook and playing on several Facebook applications, one of them being the application “Friends for Sale.” The goal of this application is to "buy" and "sell" your Facebook friends, or others that installed the application, earning as much money as possible. A profit is obtained because you receive a profit for any sale you make. In addition, every time a person buys you, you will receive a share of the sales price. This sale is not voluntarily, which means that occasionally a "pet" is bought despite that you prefer to keep him or her. This also happened that evening. One of my "pets" was bought by a woman I did not know. I took a look at the profile of this woman and could see not only the person I lost but also all her other “pets.” Among them there was one picture that stood out. The charming look on the picture made me decide to buy her and I paid the 530 virtual dollars not knowing what would happen in the nearby future.

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Some people update their Facebook status while at work. It has actually become such a common practice that some businesses have implemented “Facebook Fridays.” The concept of Facebook Friday is to give employees an hour on Friday to socialize on Facebook with their friends and family.

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I saw your request for Facebook love stories and wanted to share mine with you. Brandon and I met on the playground at Precious Preschool (San Jose, CA) in 1988. I was his "first friend," as he quoted in his 8th grade autobiography.

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A recent study showed that 27% of 35-year-olds and younger check Facebook more than 10 times a day. WOW. So maybe my upcoming fictional book, “Facebook Addiction: The Life and Times of Social Networking Addicts” is onto something.

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I've been in the fashion business as a designer for many years. If you're interested in the life and stories of a 'real' fashion designer's life please check out my fashionlife daily blog at - http://bernardfoong.typepad.com/fashionlife/ I'll love to hear your comments and/or connect with you if you have any queries.

All the Best!

Bernard Foong.

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Social networking is exploding in popularity and sites like Facebook are attracting fans of all ages.  In fact, parents have become one of the fastest growing demographics on Facebook, and they’re using the interactive tool for more than just chatting with their friends.  They’re using it to screen for - and check up on - their nannies.

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Came across this article and found it interesting. The organization that runs the memorial for Auschwitz decided to create a presence on Facebook via a Fanpage. Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest of Nazi Germany's concentration camps and extermination camps, operational during World War II. There are mixed views with creating a Facebook Fanpage, but a spokesman stated that the reason behind the launch was to "educate the younger generation" and “what better tool can we use to reach them than the tools they use themselves?”

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I work as a film, photography & television makeup artist and have been on Facebook for about a year.

My account is set to private and I got on it initially to stay in touch with my niece who is in college and then discovered this whole other world out there of producers, directors, actors, models, and photographers all in my field.... networking.

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What motivated me to build the site (http://www.FacebookShouldHireMe.com) was unemployment and passion for social media. About one year ago I was at the Web 2.0 conference and heard Gary Vaynerchuk Keynote. Hearing that keynote along with hearing Michael Lazerow speak (CEO of Buddy Media and my current boss) changed my life. I was VP of Sales at a multi-national performance based ad network and was miserable. I was making a ton of cash, had big title, but I wasn't fulfilled.

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Recently, I came across the concept of a social networking “refusenik” from a Washington Post Article. A refusenik is someone that does not choose to join a social networking site (i.e. Facebook). Some of these people still correspond with others by relaying messages back and forth with their social networking secretaries (i.e. wives, girlfriends, family members, offline friends, etc).

I have a friend from college that is a refusenik. I’m actually FB friends with his mom. We were thinking of starting a Facebook fanpage for him because everyone keeps asking for him. Instead, I made him a fictional character in my upcoming book, “Facebook Addiction: The Life and Times of Social Networking Addicts”. The book will be available on 12.01.09 so it should be interesting to see his reaction when he reads it. We also set up an associated blog where people can upload their own Facebook Addiction story. http://www.TheFacebookAddiciton.com

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A few years ago, I was in a long distance relationship. He was a fifth year college student at University of Vermont and I was already in the "Real World" of PR having graduated in the normal span of four years. As his graduation date approached, I became excited at the thought of us living in the same city after two and a half years of weekend visits. To keep the story short, I set him up with a job in New York City. What's worse is that this job was for a company from which my PR agency rented office space. Read: We worked in the same office and saw each other everyday.

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Afugitive from American justice is behind bars in Mexico, awaiting extradition, after US authorities were able to track him down because he boasted on Facebook of the exotic life he was leading on the run.

Maxi Sopo fled the States in February after he realised that federal agents were closing in on an alleged bank fraud scam that had netted more than $200,000. He was caught when investigators discovered his whereabouts thanks to one of his Facebook 'friends'.

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