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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A young relative of mine (age 11) has been the victim of a prank.   Apparently some schoolmate started a Facebook account in her name, and posted a very unflattering picture of her.   He or she then friended about 50 of her friends, who all thought it was her.

Nothing more than that, but the relative is very hurt by all this.  She isn't even on Facebook (too young) but she found out about it from friends who are and who friended her.

I see Facebook has a way to contact them to report an imposter account -- anyone have any experience with doing this?   Will they remove the account?  Any way to learn who did this?[/quote]

If this happened to either one of my girls, I would take the following steps:

1) Notify Facebook and the other child's parents immediately.

If results (a very public apology) and consequences for the bully are not instantaneous I would

2) Notify the school. Schools are taking this more seriously now.  I might notify the school anyway -- there should be swift and devastating consequences for the boy.

If that doesn't get me satisfication I would actually consider

3) Notify the police. What you describe is actually a form of identity theft and arguably harassment. There may be nothing police can do but I would think a sympathetic officer would at least show up at the door in uniform and ask to speak to the boy. Just in case parents were blowing it off.

As for consequence, I'd probably demand the parents force the boy to make a public and humilating apology in person and online, including asking them to pay for a 30-day ad on Facebook that both shames the boy and makes things good.

What a horrible and nasty thing.[/quote]

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