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		exit on Jan 18, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Did social games kill Facebook’s social graph? what's a dummy account? pseudonym? same name / two accounts?

derefr on Jan 18, 2011 [–]

I would imagine that it's an account that has nothing interesting happening on it, but is just there so people can point to it. (Referencing the term "dummied out" — http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DummiedOut)

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