an eleven-year internet identity hoax, complete with 71 Facebook profiles, 11 fake children (one with cancer), one faked marriage, and, naturally, one faked death: [link]
Wow.
River: I know you have questions. Mal: That would be why I just asked them.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Jun 07, 2012 9:31:52 am PDT #8711 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
amych - Jun 07, 2012 9:35:10 am PDT #8712 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
What meara said. I hardly have time for the one FB account.
msbelle - Jun 07, 2012 9:37:39 am PDT #8713 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I went shopping during my lunch break. I lost track of time and did not leave time to get food. Also, the watch I bought is broken so I have to take it back. Waste of time and now I am really hungry and thus craving junk food.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 07, 2012 9:38:26 am PDT #8714 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Maybe alternate personalities take turns keeping track of their own respective internet identities? I don't know, I can't even keep my login names/passwords straight now that I have a bunch to different websites.
Amy - Jun 07, 2012 9:43:49 am PDT #8715 of 30001
Because books.
an eleven-year internet identity hoax, complete with 71 Facebook profiles, 11 fake children (one with cancer), one faked marriage, and, naturally, one faked death
And given how old she is now, wouldn't she have been, like, thirteen or something when the whole thing began?
Jessica - Jun 07, 2012 9:45:08 am PDT #8716 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Does being a med student mean she has easy access to speed or meth? I honestly can't imagine any other way she would have time for all of this!
meara - Jun 07, 2012 9:47:15 am PDT #8717 of 30001
And given how old she is now, wouldn't she have been, like, thirteen or something when the whole thing began?
Well, I only read the first couple posts on that site, but it basically said she was 13 or 14 when it got started with the first profile of the guy...and that you can tell from the bands he listed as favorites that it was really ghost-written by a 13 year old girl. Essentially. Snark away!
Amy - Jun 07, 2012 9:55:47 am PDT #8718 of 30001
Because books.
it basically said she was 13 or 14 when it got started
I don't know that many 13-year-olds who would have the patience or dedication to do that. I guess the point is that not many well-adjusted 13-year-olds would.
Consuela - Jun 07, 2012 9:56:08 am PDT #8719 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yeah, apparently it's not quite 11 years, but 8--she started in 2004, when she was 14 or so.
I'm always fascinated by this sort of thing, because it's not just a fake person, it's entire faked families: husbands/wives, children, college degrees, photos, blah blah blah, and they always have MORE DRAMA than anyone else. I mean, seriously: look at that business with all the kids.
Taken all in one lump, it's easy to say they should have spotted a fake, but it was clearly incremental over time, and distributed over a bunch of different social networking sites. Hell, Gus pulled a fast one on us that way--he built up the stories slowly, over a couple of years. And even so, a few people suspected him of being not entirely truthful.
erikaj - Jun 07, 2012 9:58:41 am PDT #8720 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, people do have unusual stories.