Microsoft won't deny Gates' secret Facebook addiction

Earlier this week, Bill Gates quit Facebook.  According to the WSJ, he was getting inundated with friend requests--which conjures a nice picture of an industry titan and historical figure sitting at his desk for hours, deliberating over whether to approve new buddies, or ignore them.

But wait--maybe he is doing that--or so says ValleyWag. An anonymous tipster told them that Gates is maintaining a second, lower-profile profile.  Profile #2 is only accessible from inside the Microsoft Facebook network, but ValleyWag buys that it's really his.  Why?  Well, the shadow Gates' friends appear to include several "key internal people" from Microsoft.  Case closed.

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Excellent.  So. In collectively agreeing that this profile is definitely Bill's (and not something a mischievous 'Softy faked in 3.5 seconds)--let's please strenuously and unquestioningly accept the following contentions:

1) That Bill Gates has a secret Facebook profile.
2) That Bill Gates gave "a bunch of teenagers" access to his secret profile.
3) That Bill Gates, in his secret profile's favorite books section, would misspell the names of Ernest Hemingway and Isaac Asimov ("All Heinlein; All Assimov; All Heminway").
4) That Bill Gates would put Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein in the favorite books section of his secret profile.
5) That Bill Gates would have installed the HOTorNOT application.
6) That ... actually, if you need a sixth reason.... I've got a profile to friend you.

Wrote a Microsoft spokesperson when confronted with the question of whether the profile in question was legit:  "Microsoft does not comment on rumor or speculation." 

Which, OK,  let's give this to ValleyWag: there's no rumor or speculation here.  There IS a profile--you can find it yourself.  And it's either phony or not.  So why not just say it's phony, Microsoft? 

Unless ...