{"id":698,"date":"2003-07-20T12:48:14","date_gmt":"2003-07-20T12:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/07\/20\/fakester_genocide.html"},"modified":"2010-09-22T20:41:32","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T01:41:32","slug":"fakester_genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/07\/20\/fakester_genocide.html","title":{"rendered":"fakester genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the responses to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danah.org\/friendster.html\">my survey<\/a> today, i received a great note from someone bemoaning the &#8220;fakester genocide&#8221; on Friendster.  S\/he argued that it was through these fakesters that s\/he found known (old and current) friends or familiar strangers.  For hir, the primary use of Friendster is to connect with actual friends (and dating happens to be a fun side element).<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the clear usage model for this user, i love the term &#8220;fakester genocide&#8221; in reference to the deletion of artificially generated characters.  In my head, this truly conjures up an image of a child horrified of the genocide of the imaginary people, or the stuff animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the responses to my survey today, i received a great note from someone bemoaning the &#8220;fakester genocide&#8221; on Friendster. S\/he argued that it was through these fakesters that s\/he found known (old and current) friends or familiar strangers. For hir, the primary use of Friendster is to connect with actual friends (and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friendster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3201,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/3201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}