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Re:Ten days and nights unplugged by ehsanu1 on Monday October 07, 2013 @05:38AM (#6507234)
I was confused at first too, but I think the idea is to throw off who Facebook, or anyone looking through Facebook's data, thinks you are. Quoting:

I hate Facebook's privacy policy (or lack of thereof)

If you only add real friends, there's too much signal and not enough noise to cover it up. This is in line with using tor and using fake locations that change frequently.

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Re:Ten days and nights unplugged by weland on Monday October 07, 2013 @05:42AM (#6507243)
Yup, you nailed it. I also don't "check Facebook" too often for that to be annoying, and my list of friends isn't all that huge. It's less than 50 people, including the people I don't know.

I only stay in touch with people I want to stay in touch with. There are no ex-colleagues-from-that-job-i-left-four-years-ago-whom-i-met-at-that-concert-an-year-ago-but-can't-quite-remember-their-name. Close friends with whom I really do have links to share and things to chat about.

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