Comments on: fakester genocide

By: Marc's Voice

Marc's Voice — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 19:11:00 +0000

Dodgeball’s advertising model

Here’s a report on Dodgeball’s advertising model. I’ve been waiting to get the facts and now I have them. Congrats to Dennis et al. Here’s ileechcowsdry’s post….. Dodgeball.com Advertising Platform I love the “engineering serendipity” promise of mobi…

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 07 Sep 2003 22:26:45 +0000

Maybe there’s some hope. Looks like someone is going to create a home for fakesters. Have you seen fakester.com. Looks like they’re launching soon.

By: Carl Webb

Carl Webb — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 00:28:24 +0000

Hi Fakester,

Add me as a friend.

By: Ororo

Ororo — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 18:02:54 +0000

I don’t appreciate having my picture taken down…

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:46:07 +0000

Here’s another good story: I recently received a friend request from a fakester called TmJ. Who’s TmJ?:

“I’m really quite useful; a built-in barometer of how fucking busy and stressed out you are. A handy, painful, inconvenient reminder of the stupid way you’re living your life. But I mean, really, if you’re not accomplishing all your goals RIGHT NOW, you honestly have no right to make out without worrying about whether or not your mouth is gonna close. I’m just the enforcer of that principle. ”

In this case, the fakester is a metaphoric representation of a personality trait shared by disparate friends connected over various social groups. I’ve tried casually to figure out who created TmJ; I know most of “TmJ’s” friendsters – so the creator must be someone fairly well embedded in my circle of high-anxiety, high-workload friends. I’m not sure I care. It’s enough to know that SOMEONE in my large group of friends wants to remind me that I get too stressed out and work too hard – like all my other friends.