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"My bosses actually asked me to use Facebook as a social networking tool for meeting other people in the solar field," he says.

He put his contact information on his account. It didn't occur to him that it could lead to trouble.

"So within one day of putting my work information on Facebook, the secretary gets a call from some lady who totally gets my name wrong, and I pick up the phone, and they're like, 'Is Mr. Isaac Vicknair there?' And I was like, 'Oh, I've heard this call before.' Lots of times," he says.

The woman on the other end of the line was contacting him on behalf of Financial Management Service, a bureau of the Treasury Department that is responsible for collecting money owed to the government. They were threatening to garnishee his wages unless he set up a payment plan.

Collection agencies, like everyone else, are now using social networking sites to track down or keep tabs on people they're interested in.

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