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BY KATY
HALL
An acquaintance of mine is plagiarizing my
status updates on Facebook. I was willing
to give her the benefit of the doubt the first
time, but last week it happened again (with
an old Liz Phair lyric). We have mutual friends
and it’s weird. Should I confront her? — Flattered?, Austin
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First you should confront the sad eighth grader inside
of you and tell her things will get better. Broadcasting your angst only makes it worse! Then go like the
status updates your friend copied. That should embarrass her into deleting them or at least steer her
toward someone else next time she can’t find the words to convey her
feelings to the masses. Also delete your own lyrical status updates.
You are the original plagiarizer — come up with something more pre-
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cise to say about yourself
and save the faux introspection for Tumblr.
As for your friend and
other uninspired attention seekers, there is an
app that generates mildly
clever stat us updates
intended for users to pass
off as their own. It’s called
Status Shuffle, and for
99 cents, musings such
as “Hmm. Halo or horns
today?” can be yours, or
at least appear to be.