In a daring daylight operation, a 38-year-old businessman identified only as Harvey S., has been rescued from the social network known as LinkedIn. The rescue was carried out by Fred "Duke" Oglethorpe, famous for retrieving young men and women from the Moonies.
"I am so grateful to Duke Oglethorpe" said Patricia S. "My husband had gotten completely carried away. He was connected to 1,543 persons, but"--she paused to dab her eyes--"no longer connected to me."
Harvey S. is now undergoing deprogramming. "It's looking good," said Oglethorpe "We put him in a room with pen and paper, a manual typewriter, a copy of 'Leaves of Grass' and a Harry Nilsson CD. Pretty soon all those connections will be erased and he can take up real life again."
For Duke Oglethorpe, greater challenges remain. "There's a rumor," he said, "that 10,000 marriages are about to be performed on the Internet, linking total strangers to each other or maybe to a whole lot of others. Our work has just begun."
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