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Facebook tattoo video is viral marketing hoax

14 Jun 2011
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'My Social Tattoo' was not a video of a Dutch woman's homage to her Facebook friends by tattooing their profile pictures on her arm, it was just the latest in a long list of advertising masquerading as truth. 

In case you missed it, the story that circulated involved a Dutch woman who had the Facebook pictures of 152 of her friends tattooed on her arm.

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