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Couldn't this be done trivially enough by creating your own fake girlfriend account and commenting on your own page?

Is that just too depressing?

Or for $5 http://fiverr.com/gigs/search?query=girlfriend&x=0&y...

Fascinating. Even more fascinating when you think that there is no guarantee that the person advertising is the person in the pictures.

Rip photos from unsuspecting innocent FB profile, create a new one, post on fiverr, profit!

In case someone too naive reads parent, I can count at least 3 crimes there: using someone else's image without consent (is there a name for that?), impersonation, and fraud.

is there a name for that?

At the very least it's copyright infringement, although I'm not sure it's criminal copyright infringement.

I was talking about the protection of your personal image. Let me give you an example: Let's say you are walking down the street, and I take a picture of the street (perfectly legal). But then I crop and zoom the picture to show only your figure, and publish it. That's not legal. I don't know whether it belongs to copyright law (I could imagine something like 'you own the copyrights of any pictures taken of your image') or it's something else.

It's perfectly legal. Anything that's in public is part of the public record.

That's not true.

Yes it is. It's how journalism works -- including paparazzi journalism.

Have you studied the subject? I doubt it, so please stop. Paparazzi usually focus on public figures like actors, which don't have the same rights over their own image, since they have voluntarily exposed themselves to the public.

Everyone in a public area voluntarily exposes themselves to the public. Your images in public spaces are legal to record. If you disagree, try suing a security camera operator.

Clearly you don't know the law, and what's even worse your logic is broken. I give up.

Can you consistantly post what a real gf would post and consistantly post on both accounts without ever messing up? Lying on this level is hard to do. There was a very public case in the last year or two where someone did that and got busted doing it because he was projecting too much through her posts and made a few mistakes with stolen photos and so on. This site would make that vastly easier since you wouldn't need to worry about any of that.

My facebook girlfriend is "Sweetba Bytruth" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPKhLJeLHC4 ) or something, but I don't think anyone is falling for it ^^

A lot of things are more efficiently done by paying a professional. Hence, YC.

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