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Oct 2, 2012 6:00 AM EDT
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Friend Request These 7 Social Media Gurus Who Are Keeping MIA Hot
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Dirk DeSouza, chief marketing officer at Dirk DeSouza Management Consulting

How have your Facebook shenanigans changed your life?
"People approach me in public and ask if I'm Dirk and say incredibly nice things to me. I've gotten marriage proposals, one million dates, strategy clients, social media clients, encouragements to write books, made new friends, and even started an impromptu Haiti Relief organization called 1st & Alton, prompting NBC doing a story on me titled Facebooking For Haiti, where I suddenly found myself in Port au Prince hanging with Sean Penn. Two years ago, Ocean Drive magazine gave me a monthly column after following my posts."

Women often ask you on dates purely from your status updates. Have you ever found love this way?
"Women comment and private message me constantly, which is incredibly flattering. They've led to dates and hookups but not love."

What kind of status update annoys you to no end?
"If you upload a picture of a cup of coffee, you're deleted. It's the lowest form of expression."

Photo: Courtesy of Dirk De Souza