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My group of friends has an in-joke about an imaginary friend of ours that we blame whenever small inconveniences happen. ("I didn't eat the the last slice of pi
by squeaky-clean 6y ago
My group of friends has an in-joke about an imaginary friend of ours that we blame whenever small inconveniences happen. ("I didn't eat the the last slice of pizza! Marcelo did it!")
We made a Facebook account for Marcelo a few years back as a joke. One day a couple years in, we could no longer log into his account without proving his identity. We probably tripped some internal flags because it was being logged into by several IPs that also had their own Facebook accounts is my guess, that or someone not in on the joke reported Marcelo. Either way, Marcelo can't use Facebook anymore... A small inconvenience in our case, but this is definitely something that can and does happen to fake accounts.
Annoyingly, someone/somebot made a full mirror of my Facebook account one day and sent me a friend request as well as several of my friends and family. I reported it and eventually got back a response that the account was not in violation of any rules. That was years ago and I had forgotten about it until just now. Just checked today and it seems it's actually gone, but it was very creepy at the time.