If you’re thinking of defriending someone on Facebook, you might want to think twice about it, as this article today points out in chilling detail.

Even better, think long and hard about who you “Friend” on Facebook in the first place.

Do you really know anything, firsthand, about his person you’re “friending”?

If you don’t know anything firsthand about this person, don’t “friend” them.

Just because they’re a friend of a friend of a friend…doesn’t mean YOU know anything about this person (or that any of your referring “friends” know anything about this person either).

Facebook has effectively re-defined the word “friend” to mean…absolutely nothing.

When it comes right down to it…YOU are your best protection.

Fiercely guard your privacy, and like your mother always told you… “Choose your friends very carefully, because not everyone who says they’re your friend…is really your friend.”

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