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Woman Sues Employer for 'Losing Facebook Friends'

The complaint asserts that Gloor's communications caused several friends and acquaintances to "block [Swatos] from communicating with her through the social networking site Facebook." ...full story at digg

from digg on Tue, Nov 03 2009

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