SANUR
The Bali Times

MORTON Nyoman O’Leary, a 28-year-old apprentice taxidermist, has bamboozled himself by clicking on Facebook fan buttons – to the extent that he no longer knows who he is a fan of, a friend reported on Wednesday.

“As of Tuesday at 6:05pm, Lizard was a fan of 103,548 fan pages on Facebook – and counting,” long-time associate Bardon Chieffeather said, referring to his friend’s pet name.

“He’s, like, totally lost himself,” Chieffeather lamented.

O’Leary, the only child of a Scottish father and Balinese mother of Liberian extraction, allegedly cannot stop himself from clicking on

“Become a Fan” icons of the popular social-networking site, and at one stage had sought professional assistance from an addiction specialist based in the central Bali highlands of Bedugul, where internet connections are a rarity.

In an email exchange with The Bali Times, O’Leary said he saw no end in sight to his predicament, and asked, “Do you have a fan page?”

We do, we said. It’s at www.facebook.com/bali.times.