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New Delhi  August 29, 2010 Rahul Gandhi   is a hit on Facebook. He has a fan page following of 67,921 people which could be among the largest for any leader in the country on the popular social networking site. Moreover, Gandhi's facebook account, which   Congress   says has not been created by him, has 4,999 friends listed in it. It has photographs and videos as well as regular updates. Rahul's sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra too has a fan page with 17,469 people listed as followers and another page named as "Priyanka Gandhi politician" having 163 followers. Party President Sonia Gandhi has a page which lists her as an author with 1,283 people liking it while another page with politician listed along with her name has 503 people who like it. Source : http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/StoryPrint?sId=110708&secid=114&page=null

Life is beautiful ; it’s a really wonderful topic to speak about. In this speech I will discuss two things: my life’s experience and my approach to this topic.Ladies and gentlemen, in 2007, I arrived home from a shop with my mum and my sister, very excited to be going back to Pakistan. I was excited about the packing, the gifts, but most of all because I was going to visit my grandmother after almost three years since I had come to Australia. As I entered the main door of our house and sat down with my mum to talk about our home country, the phone rang. My mum picked up the phone and my uncle’s stressed voice spoke through it; he only wanted to talk to my dad. - o - o - o - o - o - Everything suddenly turned stressful for me; I wanted to know what was going on. Since my dad wasn’t home my mum persuaded my uncle to tell her what was wrong. After a few moments, tears started running through my mum’s eyes and she hung up... My grandmother had passed away. Just 15 days before I was goi...

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Facebook warned on Thursday that members who buy friends from an Australian online marketing company could face banishment from the social network. The Brisbane-based firm, usocial.net, offered this week to sell a Facebook user 1,000 friends for $177 and 5,000 friends, the limit imposed by Facebook on a standard profile account for $654. Facebook fan pages have no limits and usocial.net said it could supply 1,000 Facebook fans for $177 and 10,000 fans for $1,167. Usocial caused a stir earlier this year with a similar offer to users of popular micro-blogging service Twitter seeking to increase their number of followers. Facebook fired back against usocial on Thursday and issued a reminder that it was against its terms of service for a user to access an account belonging to someone else or to share a password. "It’s our understanding that usocial logs in as a user and manipulates their account," the Palo Alto, California-based company said. "This is a violation of our ...