How to Kill Your Facebook Clone
Why Destroying a Cheap Copy of You is Okay
4 min readAug 14, 2018
Last night I woke up to find I had 9 new notifications on Facebook Messenger.
Did people suddenly decide to get talkative? Was it my birthday and I had somehow forgotten in the bustle of life? Did Facebook close my group without telling me?
Nope. None of the above.
I had been cloned overnight.
Real Friends to the Rescue
I’m involved in several groups. So while I slept, my wide awake friends posted stuff like this on my behalf:
It didn’t slow the clone down a bit, at least at first.
He (or she/it) started working his way through my friends list. One after the other, messages were sent proclaiming so-called good news.
Wow. That is some scintillating conversation there, huh?
