Friends Don't Let Friends Get 'Fraped' On Facebook

Teenagers who don't log off before leaving Facebook in favor of other websites risk becoming the butt of practical jokes by friends who post humiliating status updates on their accounts.

Teenagers who don’t log off before leaving Facebook in favor of other websites risk getting fraped.

Don’t confuse it with the caffeinated blender drink. Frape refers to a popular prank among teens: Posting humiliating status updates on an accounts that a friend forgot to log off of.

As blogger Martyn Kelly explains:

Frape victims have usually left themselves logged into Facebook, or Twitter, or something similar, and one of their friends has written a comedy status, seemingly from them, to their friends or followers.

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