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The counter located prominently on everyone's Facebook page has created a bit of a friends arms race. According to new research, it's a race you may be better off losing.

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What's the topic of the worst Facebook fight you've ever been in?

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Here is part two in our series of The 5 Missoula People on Facebook You Really Should "Like". Get caught up on our previous recommendations by checking out last years article here.

If you haven't added these local Facebook profiles to your friends list then you are truly missing out on the best status updates in all of Missoula. Not a day goes by where I am not compelled to visit these particular people and pages on this social network. These individuals (in no particular order) are funny, informative and simply the best of what this town has to offer. If you are homegrown native, or someone who just moved into town, these are the friends you need to add today:

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The November election is just around the corner. Follow the Missoula County elections office Facebook page for the latest information.

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(UPDATE 9/19/12) As of this morning, the page has shut down. No reason was given.

Do you log into Facebook just to see what the latest drama is? Then this new, and extremely controversial group may be just the thing. But at what point do we draw the line between honesty, and downright slander and bullying?

A new Facebook group that just sprouted up today, known as "Montana Cheating Offenders" is spreading like WILDFIRE all over the Missoula network with already 312 members at last count. (UPDATE: 482, just within the past ten minutes. Geez..)

It's mission: To call out Montana locals who cheat on their significant others.

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No wonder Lady Gaga started her own social networking site with LittleMonsters.com. If she wants to rule to a digital roost other than Twitter, she’s going to have to do so in her own space, since Facebook is clearly Eminem‘s domain.

Even though the rapper has been quiet for much of 2012, he is the first person to nab 60 million likes on Facebook. Time for a status update, Marshall Mathers!

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If you didn’t know it by now, employers are using social media outlets like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn as an active part of their recruiting process.

In fact, a new survey suggests that even if you are not providing a recruiter with your social media information, most are still looking at them anyway.

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Maybe that old stereotype about ladies being catty to each other is right after all — what else would explain a recent survey that found 25 percent of women have intentionally posted unflattering photos of their female friends to Facebook?

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Earlier this week, Facebook changed all the default email addresses on its users’ profiles to a brand new address, @facebook.com. Sneaky yes, but was it really that big of a deal? Probably not since very few people are ever going to navigate through a Facebook profile to get an email address when it’s so much easier and more reliable to use Facebook’s internal messaging system.

However, the folks at Thank for You for Not Laughing have found other recent tweaks Facebook has made that are far more dubious.

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You probably don’t check out the “about” section of your Facebook page a whole lot, being that you already know everything there is to know about yourself. But if you happened to do so today, you would have noticed something different — your listed email address has been changed to one with your Facebook profile name and then @facebook.com. Yes, Facebook gave you a Facebook email address without your permission. 

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Social technology, like Facebook, might be a great way for people to keep in touch, but it can also just as easily become a massive hindrance.

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