Amartya Sen to shun Facebook

NEW DELHI: After falling victim to identity theft on Facebook, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has said he got no help from the managers of the social networking site in closing the "fraudulent" page of someone impersonating him.
Sen said he never intends to open any account at a site where it is difficult to check the "genuineness" of a participant.
According to recent news reports, an 'impostor' pretending to be Amartya Sen had created a page on Facebook, which showed Sen as having 490 fans, and was liberally posting views that radically contradicted the political and economic views held by the economist.