“Facebook Fakebook” by Ruth Ellen Gruber Precis

Ruth Ellen Gruber’s article “Facebook Fakebook” (2009) claims that there are tons of fake Facebook profiles and other fake e-profiles for many different reasons. Gruber explains what Facebook is, talks about how an impostor created a fake Facebook of one of her friends, how she researched fake profiles and why they are created, how people have their Facebook page set up, how it can be dangerous and how it can affect them from getting job. Her purpose is to inform the reader in order to tell then that there are people that create fake Facebook profiles and other fake e-profiles for dangerous reasons and a person should be careful what they post on it. This entire article is about Facebook and other social networking so the intended audience for this would be people that have social networking profiles and people considering to get a social networking profile.

Gruber, Ruth Ellen. "Facebook Fakebook." New Leader 92.2 (2009): 8-10. Academic Search Premier. Web. 5 Feb. 2013.