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" MTV&amp;#039;s new show Catfish has made it pretty obvious that there are a lot of strange people out there posing as other people and using Facebook to become close to strangers. As much as it is interesting to watch, I know that I personally would never want to be put in a situation that could give me the &amp;quot;opportunity&amp;quot; to be on that show! Every girl has experienced at least one (if they&amp;#039;re lucky, only one) random friend request from a guy they don&amp;#039;t know. Usually they have names like John GhettoFab Johnson and you deny them without a second thought; but, sometimes they&amp;#039;re named Brian Davis, have an attractive profile picture, and you two have fifty friends in common so you hesitate. Do you know them? Do you want to know them? So you click on their profile to investigate further. Finally, after creeping on their photos, which are usually lacking in actual pictures of the guy, and scrolling down to see their profile activity you decided to add them even though you&amp;#039;re pretty positive you have no idea who he is. No big deal, right? Wrong. That random cute guy whose friend request you accepted could be who he appears to be, but more likely than not he&amp;#039;s someone posing under a fake profile. Usually the fake profile is harmless, but sometimes they&amp;#039;re not, and personally, that is not a risk I&amp;#039;m willing to take. A lot of girls today make the mistake of accepting any friend request they get, and not making their Facebooks private. In reality, nothing on the Internet is ever truly private, but as girls it&amp;#039;s important for us to protect ourselves by making our profiles as private as possible and controlling whom we accept as friends.  So, the next time someone you don&amp;#039;t know adds you on Facebook don&amp;#039;t accept his or her request. Facebook is meant to share your life with the people you care about, not random Brian Davis. And besides, isn&amp;#039;t it kind of creepy if someone you don&amp;#039;t know wants to stalk your life? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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