Revenge of the Facebook Stalker
I hooked up with a jerk who has a girlfriend—should I rat him out online?
Posted Tuesday, March 6, 2012, at 4:09 PM
This week, Farhad Manjoo and Emily Yoffe debate the question: Should you tell a cheater’s significant other about his extracurricular activities via Facebook, especially if you’re the one he cheated with? This week’s letter writer found her hook-up’s girlfriend on the site and now wonders whether she should spill the beans.
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Farhad Manjoo is Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society. You can email him at farhad.manjoo@slate.com and follow him on Twitter.
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