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The act of using Facebook under the guise of a false identity.

The purpose of the identity is to join networks otherwise unavailable to the perpetrator to glean information off of carefully chosen targets. The person may then send a friend request to his/her target in an attempt to fool the person into believing the person is somewhat trustworthy as the friend request comes from a network to which the target belongs.

A parent might sign up for Facebook as a member of his/her son or daughter's High school, with the intent of some of all of the following:
- to send her child's friends "friend requests" to watch their behavior or subtly coax them to talk about her child
- to watch her child's Facebook announcements and wall posts
- to monitor her child's comments on other's facebook pages
- to see pictures and other information
Son in HS: "Who is 'Tara Jordan'? I've never heard of her at school before..
*clicks to accept friend request oblivious to the fauxbook request coming from his mother*
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Mother of child, posing as fictitious Tara Jordan: "Now I will scour my son's page and his friends' pages to see what he's doing whilst not under my supervision."

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"I was fauxbooked by my mom and she saw all the college photos of me drinking instead of going to class."

"My fauxbook tricks every girl in the sorority to accept my friend request so I can see all of their information."
fauxbook by Shiftyeyedgoat October 21, 2009
Noun:Fauxbo (fobo)
1. a man with whom somebody has a romantic or sexual relationship that is not genuine or real.
2. fake boyfriend

verb:
1. to charm a woman with romantic or sexual tension that is neither genuine nor real.
Examples
1. "Every woman has that perfect man in their mind,for them they walk with a strut, tilt their heads with a laugh and are insationable flirts, that perfect man is her Fauxbo."

2. "Wendy was never happy with her boyfriend because he could never compare to that perfect Fauxbo in her mind."

3. "she flirted with her Fauxbo behind the counter every day when she went into the coffee shop."

4. "She spent hours shopping for a special dress because she knew she was going to see her Fauxbo at her high school reunion."

5. "Those two seem like a couple, is that her boyfriend?, No it's just her Fauxbo."
Fauxbo by Lucy Waters March 1, 2010
1. A fake hobo, for fashion's sake or to make statement. Someone who dresses or talks or acts like they're homeless, when in fact they're not.

2. Someone pretending to be homeless to get money.
1. Mat Devine is such a fauxbo. Look's goddamn hot though.

2. Don't give that jack your change, he's blates a fauxbo.
fauxbo by LilaReed January 3, 2008

fauxbonics 

Indistinguishable from ebonics but spoken by someone who is fully capable of speaking perfect and articulate English.
Lee: Hey Bryan, check out this Lil Wayne mix tape.
Bryan: Yo B I like dis, it b fresh and I lovin' the beats they sampling. Real ill son.
Lee: Bryan, stop with the fauxbonics, we all knew you grew up on a farm.
fauxbonics by PimpGangstaPoet April 15, 2009
A combination of the words "faux" and "hobo" - a person of sound financial means, whether by their own employment of outside funds, who chooses to take on the appearance and level of hygiene of a vagrant or otherwise homeless individual.
"That outdoor music festival was a total fauxbo convention."

"This used to be a decent coffee shop before it was overtaken by fauxbos."

"That fauxbo deeps his iPhone lodged in his dreadlocked beard."
Fauxbo by OkieHebrew June 12, 2014

fauxbola 

The moment that someone has a small cough or sniffle, that they believe they have ebola and have to announce it to the world.
Jimmy let out a loud sneeze on the train before announcing to the crowd 'I probably have Ebola you know' but in reality he was just suffering from fauxbola.
fauxbola by Maryjade October 28, 2014