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Released: May 22, 2010
In online networks, privacy has no price tag
Source: Ylan Q. Mui, Washington Post (Free Registration)
On the newest social networking Web sites, you are what you buy:
ilona spent $6.41 at Chipotle.
AshleyMarie got 1 song from iTunes for $1.29 (“Can’t Be Tamed” by Miley Cyrus).
suchitagarwal spent $464.44 at Sta Travel Inc. (“Eurail Global Pass for 15 days!”).
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