Apology from Facebook poacher

By Hannah Jordan, Third Sector, 11 June 2008

A US-based overseas medical charity has been caught approaching the Facebook contacts of its UK rival, Sightsavers International, asking for their support.

According to John Bines, director of fundraising and communications at Sightsavers, one of his employees received an email from the US charity's chief executive through the social networking website Facebook asking for the employee's 'friendship'. Bines declined to reveal the name of the charity, but said that it had a...

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