What happens when too many social networking sites are taking you away from real life? The first video has a hilarious take on the issue. Kind of explains why people flock to MySpace, when their real life sucks in comparison.

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My first Facebook spam:
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I recently got two interesting comments from a scammer. The comments are very interesting because it preys on the need of people to snoop around other's MySpace account (or life in general) to dupe them of their own account information. Let's first look at the comments (currently in moderation and will never be approved):

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My public profiles on 9 popular social networking sites:

• LinkedIn - I have started adding my friends to this. Found some old IITians from this network. Also was able to find some old friends.
• Pownce - Just started…
• Orkut (requires free Orkut account) - Looks more like a dating network, similar to Friendster.
• Ryze - I was one of the early adopters, haven't used lately. It has lots of details about me.
• Twitter - I frequently update it these days. Feel free to add me to your list.
• Facebook - Requires a free login.
• Hi-5 - Pretty spammy site. It dupes unsuspecting users to send hi5 requests to all addresses in their contact book. Avoid this site.
• MySpace - My MySpace love.
• Friendster

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I glanced over the Facebook source code for both index and search pages. As an enterprise developer of some experience, source code is always interesting to me as it provides an insight into the health of a company. The interesting highlights of the Facebook code are:

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