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We talk about Facebook, online privacy and bullying online, but we don't realize the gravity of it until it happens to someone we know. This is an incident that's currently happening to a friend of mine and I'm blogging about it to let people know and get attention of someone that can help.

This friend of mine who I won't tell the name is a student of a government university, and recently she had a request for a date by a person from the navy which she has refused, and because of this this person has created a fake Facebook profile of her using her photos but with a different name and has started posting bad things that are ruining her real life.

Also making things worse the person who created this fake profile is adding her real life friends to the fake Facebook profile, because the fake Facebook profile is using her real photos people that she know are accepting the requests and thins are getting worse and worse. And making things extra worse the people who's behind all this is telling that he would stop all this  if she agrees to go out on a date with him. Which is bullying.

Because of this my friend is pretty sad and depressed at the same time, not knowing what to do. We were trying to report about the fake Facebook profile for weeks but Facebook has failed to remove the fake Facebook profile. So as a final option she's about to go to the police which will be little help because it's hard or nearly impossible to get evidence from Facebook to convict the person and the best thing to go is to remove the fake Facebook profile which Facebook is not not doing at the moment even with so many reportings.

One of the problems that we had in a past incident regarding Facebook failing to remove a Facebook page called "I like to rape girls", in that occasion although Facebook was receiving complaints about the "I love to rage girls" Facebook page, the people reviewing these complaints Facebook was unable to understand what are being posted on the page because the page was not using English. Instead the Facebook page was using Sinhala. Therefore someone from Singapore of Malaysia who knew Sinhala and read about this page in a blog post who somehow he has direct contact with Facebook had to explain to people at Facebook about what's on the page which made Facebook to remove the "I love to rape girls" Facebook page. Sometimes I think that must be the reason here too for Facebook not to take an action even with so many people reporting.

These are just few incidents that has happened on Facebook and we think somehow our friend will be able to get through the bullying and we're supporting in every way we can, and hope Facebook would take quick proper action regarding this, and this is just an isolated event and I'm sure there must be many more incidents happening just like this at this very moment. And them must be getting though the cracks of the reviewing process of Facebook. And remember that this can happen to anyone, our sister, friend, wife, it can be to anyone anywhere.

If you are someone in a position that can help, let me know I will be able to provide further information about this. And even you are not in a position to help directly you can help by reporting the fake account to Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/nimalka.madushani.92

    Go to the fake profile https://www.facebook.com/nimalka.madushani.92
    Click the wheel button at over the cover photo's right side corner
    From the dropdown menu select Report/Block
    In the dialog box select, submit a report
    Thanks