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See Facebook - but younger with better layout. Psychological torture and bullying for the 21st century. Cell-cam footage of kids beating each other up, forum for controlling mothers to impersonate kids and bully classmates of their darlings. Who's cool and who's not. We love Miley!
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Best if you're under 25, mainly so you can understand it. Lots of, like, kewl polls, music sampling, news, forums and middle-aged men posing as teenagers.
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In Parliament, Prime Minister John Key read out embarrassing messages purporting to be from Labour MP David Cunliffe.
Labour leader Phil Goff and MPs Clayton Cosgrove, Shane Jones and Maryan Street have also fallen victim to an imposter.