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Married Woman Claims Facebook Info Sharing Created Dating Profile For Her

Posted by samzenpus on from the looking-for-love-in-all-the-wrong-places dept.

jenningsthecat writes A happily married Ontario woman was shocked and dismayed last January to discover that she had an active account with dating site Zoosk.com. Mari Sherkin saw a pop-up ad on Facebook for Zoosk, but wasn't interested, so she "clicked on the X to close it. At least I thought I did." She immediately began to receive messages from would-be Zoosk suitors in her Facebook mailbox. When she had a look on Zoosk she was horrified to find a dating profile with her Facebook picture, name, and postal code. Zoosk denies ever setting up profiles in this way, yet their terms of service explicitly allow them to do it, and there are apparently several Facebook pages with complaints of similar occurrences.

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  1. Honest, honey... by Jawnn · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...I would never have done something like that.

    1. Re:Honest, honey... by the_B0fh · · Score: 4, Informative

      Did you not read the article where they quoted the actual terms of service that said you authorized them to create a profile for you automatically?

      Why ask for extraordinary evidence when the site itself tells you it will do that?

  2. She thought she was the customer by Spy+Handler · · Score: 5, Insightful

    but found out she's the product.

  3. "Happily married" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Facebook knows her true feelings about her husband.