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A Saudi Arabian woman was killed by her father after he found her chatting with a man on Facebook, reporters claim.

The woman from Riyadh was beaten and shot at point-blank range after her father walked in on her chatting with a male on the popular social destination. And although some have called on the Saudi Arabian government to condemn the killing as a harsh response to an innocuous conversation, many in the country see Facebook as the root of all evil for young people.

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The social ‘epidemic’ that is signing up to the likes of Facebook and MySpace is most likely to hit young people, analyst firm Point Topic said today.

More than two thirds (70 per cent) of 18 to 24-year-olds with internet access at home said they log on to sites such as MySpace, Bebo or Facebook regularly, while just 6 per cent of over-65s do the same, Point Topic’s latest Consumer Survey shows.

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It’s not hard to find spoof celebrity profiles in Facebook, but in Morocco the act of impersonating a member of the royal family is taken very seriously indeed, as one unlucky young Moroccan man has recently discovered.

Fouad Mortada, a 26-year-old IT engineer from Casablanca was arrested at the beginning of the month, taken to a detention centre and allegedly tortured.

His crime? Mortada set up a Facebook account in the name of Prince Moulay Rachid, brother to King Mohamed VI of Morocco.

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