Bob Guccione Jr. didn’t know he had an online identity, until his friends told him he had a Facebook account.

He emailed me: “Phantoms who create Facebook accounts in other people’s names. I mean, why?” Bob didn’t create his profile, so he wanted it removed. Come on, who made his profile in the first place?

I emailed Facebook to ask them to take his profile down, but they didn’t respond. I emailed again, and didn’t hear back. Ugh.

My hair dresser also told me someone made his profile for him. Instead of resisting the social network, he conformed and began friending people. An English researcher told me his students set his profile up and he also began navigating through this strange digital world.

Bob is wise. He has kept his innocence from Facebook’s creepy world. Even a fake profile of someone pretending to be him doesn’t tempt him to join like it has so many others. But in all seriousness, someone from Facebook should remove his profile ASAP.

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