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The act of using Facebook under the guise of a false identity. The purpose of the identity is to join networks otherwise unavailable to the perpetrator to glean information off of carefully chosen targets. The person may then send a friend request to his/her target in an attempt to fool the person into believing the person is somewhat trustworthy as the friend request comes from a network to which the target belongs. A parent might sign up for Facebook as a member of his/her son or daughter's High school, with the intent of some of all of the following: - to send her child's friends "friend requests" to watch their behavior or subtly coax them to talk about her child - to watch her child's Facebook announcements and wall posts - to monitor her child's comments on other's facebook pages - to see pictures and other information
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