{"id":1385,"date":"2003-08-19T10:16:15","date_gmt":"2003-08-19T17:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/08\/19\/1385.html"},"modified":"2003-08-19T10:16:15","modified_gmt":"2003-08-19T17:16:15","slug":"fakester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/08\/19\/fakester\/","title":{"rendered":"Fakester"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Another link from Boingboing before I go: an <cite>SF Weekly<\/cite> (where in this case SF means San Francisco) article titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfweekly.com\/issues\/2003-08-13\/feature.html\/1\/index.html\">Attack of the Smartasses<\/a>, detailing the adventures of the \"fakesters\" who sign up for Friendster under various aliases, fake names, and fictional identities.<\/p>\n<p>I think the idea's kind of fun (I was tickled when I came across \"James\" (Kirk) on Friendster, especially when there was a testimonial to him by \"Khan\"), but I have to admit that the attitude described in the article&#8212;a sort of \"Hey, this place was lame, but then we came along and made it interesting, the company should be happy we're here\" kind of thing&#8212;doesn't hold much water for me.  It's a free service provided by a for-profit company with a particular set of rules; much as I like art that happens in the interstices of such services (like the funny fake reviews on Amazon), I have a hard time sympathizing with people who talk as though they have a <em>right<\/em> to break the services' rules.<\/p>\n<p>But I do think it's an interesting point that everyone on such a service is fake in some sense.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another link from Boingboing before I go: an SF Weekly (where in this case SF means San Francisco) article titled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}