Woman has 152 Facebook friends tattooed onto arm. Unfriending will be painful.

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Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

Social networks have contributed to the Arab Spring, people getting arrested for jokes, you name it.

Now one Facebok user has taken the social network to heart – or rather to her body. A woman in the Netherlands has had 152 profile images of her Facebook friends tattooed onto her arm.

You Tube user Suzyj87 now has a permanent collection of her friends right to hand, as it were. Who need a smartphone?

Of course the question begs – how does she add new friends, and what happens when she unfriends someone? Laser removal?

She said it said took months to get all the profile pictures onto her arm. I daresay.

Rapper T-Pain has been credited with the trend after he got a Facebook tattoo on his arm that read, ‘You don’t have to like me’ with a Like logo on it.

Update: Alas this looks like a stunt by a social media agency (who we’re not going to link to). Oh well, you win some you lose some…