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January 24, 2008

SocGen Scandal Proves Facebook Friends Aren't Friends

I see that Jerome Kerviel, the rogue trader who cost his bank $7-billion on errant bets, has a Facebook page, which you can find here. While there are currently four friends listed, the Guardian says friends have been disappearing from the page all morning, with four dropping off in the last few hours.

One hour after his name was published on news sites, four friends had already deserted the 31-year-old.

At the time of writing, the list has shrunk further to just four friends - providing more fodder to the Facebook refuseniks who question whether someone linked to a social networking page is really worthy of the name "friend".

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