I always say that it's not like you have to outrun the bear. You just have to

outrun the other people who are out running the bear. So the bear attacks

someone else and not you and you got to safety, right? And I think that's kind of

what we're dealing with.

You're listening to How To. I'm Amanda Ripley. Today, how not to get eaten by a

bear? The digital kind. Let me explain. A few weeks ago, our listener Susan

found an odd message in her inbox. One morning, I got a request from Facebook

saying such and such person wants to be friends with you, but the weird thing

was that person was my name. So I kind of ignored it. And then I started

getting emails from some of my friends. And so I went back and I clicked on it

just to see who it was. And there was this Facebook page with half-naked people

and my name and my birth date. So I thought, wow, that's terrible. I need to get rid

of this. Susan flagged this suspicious account in a message to Facebook and then

waited to hear back. And I got an email back saying, we've looked into it and

we've decided it doesn't violate our community standards. And I thought, well,

you know, yeah, I mean, I thought that's pretty crazy. I mean, one, this person

is sending pornographic content through Facebook. And two, this person is

pretending to be me. Meanwhile, this imposter account started

friending Susan's real friends. Probably about 20 of my friends were listed as

friends because they had, you know, they had not paid attention and they were

listed as my friends on this fake account. It's worth noting here that

Susan is a law professor. So she's comfortable advocating for herself. And she

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