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27th Nov 2012

Looks Familiar: Man Pranks Facebook Users With The Same Name

A Reddit user decided to have some fun with people on Facebook who have the same name as him. The results are hilarious...

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It’s not often you come across a good Facebook prank, so we felt obliged to share the hilarious stunt pulled by Reddit user Ryan Roy.

Ryan has been freaking out strangers who have the same name as him by sending them a friend request – after he has recreated their profile picture as closely as he could. Here’s an example so you can get an idea of what we’re talking about:

According to Ryan, most victims of his prank didn’t find it as hilarious as he did (hmm… we wonder why?)

“None of them really got it, they just got really creeped out and changed their profile pic immediately,” said Ryan, who is a musician based in Alberta.

Her’s some more of Ryan’s (slightly creepy) work:

So, on a scale of one to ten how freaked out would you be if someone did something like this to you?

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