Ben Wilde* was a popular and academic 14-year-old when he received a chatty Facebook message from a girl he’d never met, who claimed she was friends with someone on his school football team.
The pair ended up corresponding online about what Ben calls ‘all the normal stuff’; family, school, friends.
Nothing seemed remotely out of the ordinary — until a few weeks later, when the ‘girl’ revealed she was, in fact, a grown man. Now armed with reams of personal