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I've noticed a lot of people on Facebook who use nicknames or "first name plus some other word" instead of their real names. I imagine this is intended to keep anyone from searching their real name with Google or Facebook and finding that profile. But it's a short step from that, to having two or more Facebook accounts, one to be the person's "public face" and the rest for the actual things people do on Facebook.


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