The Giraffe Story
February 16th, 2006 by gablimNew Year 2006
January 19th, 2006 by gablimNew Toys!
January 16th, 2006 by gablimNational Art Gallery Director’s Visit
January 16th, 2006 by gablimFakesters
January 5th, 2006 by gablimMore manipulation of identity and using persona as a playing ground.
Batty and numerous other Friendsters routinely violate the site’s user agreement by creating fictional characters as profiles instead of, or in addition to, their "real" profiles. These "fakesters" portray themselves as everything from inanimate objects like the World Trade Center to celebrities like Paris Hilton to historical forces like War (which lists its profession as "resolving disputes").
Emboldened by their masks and often preferring the weird over the normal, fakesters are turning Friendster on its ear. They link to other users they’ve never met in real life, flouting the site’s original intent of connecting people through verifiable personal relationships. Many compete to link to as many other users as possible, so that their fictional characters function as social hubs in the Friendster network.
Though to an outsider the fakester uprising might have looked like a big practical joke, there were serious issues behind it.
Read more at http://blogger.iftf.org/Games/000149.html
Dolls
December 5th, 2005 by gablimpostsecret
November 20th, 2005 by gablimhttp://postsecret.blogspot.com/ This is a blog that is filled with secrets. I’m not sure about you but reading them makes me feel a little better cos nobody’s perfect and everybody has their own problems. I wanted to hug these people and tell them its ok. They should not feel condemned. Hopefully revealing their secrets makes them feel better.





