Manchester Utd star jumps on social networking bandwagon

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It must be tough for a world famous footballer to move to a foreign country and attempt to make friends, yet Cristiano Ronaldo has managed to conduct many social interactions outside of soliciting prostitutes during his time in England. This may be due to the fact that he has embraced the information super highway: he regularly used to talk to current squeeze Nereida Gallardo on MSN Messenger, and now it appears that he invites strangers to talk to him through Facebook.

I received the friend request shown above this morning, and it looks pretty genuine. (I mean, we all know Cristiano hails from Detroit, Michigan, right?) The only indication the invite may be the work of a fraudster is that the winger is wearing a Manchester Utd shirt in the profile picture - he wouldn’t be caught dead in one of those anymore.

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