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Facebook's purge of fake names locks out some real poeple
Published 5/16/2009 by
By Barbara Ortutay
Associated Press at Technology
As Facebook becomes a bigger part of the lives of its more than 200 million users, the Palo Alto-based company is finding that the huge diversity and vast size of its audience is making it increasingly difficult to enforce rules it set when its membership was smaller and more homogenous.
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