Friendster Fights Fakesters

jerkface writes "Matchmaking/personal networking site Friendster is experiencing a 'problem'. Unruly individuals like John Locke, Socrates, Alf, and many incarnations of Jesus Christ are trying to take over the site, according to SFWeekly.com. For a few months, the 'fakesters' were mostly tolerated, so long as they didn't offend anyone with the images they posted. Fakester profiles exist claiming to be famous people (alive and dead), cities, buildings, abstract concepts, and - increasingly - Friendster CEO Jon Abrams. Abrams is now saying they're all going to be deleted because they ruin the site. Fakesters argue he's stifling the full potential of the site, and many people report that 100% genuine profiles have been deleted in the recent campaigns against fakesters."

Comments

NO WAY!!!???

[Anonymous Coward]

Someone pretending to be someone they are not on the interweb????!!!! Say it ain't so!! This can't be true!!

Re:NO WAY!!!???

[Jackdaw Rookery]

Joins IRC channel #linux
"Hi, I'm Jenny" (This alone nets first few male idiots but the majority don't bite.)
Five minutes of joining in on other peoples conversations adding nothing constructive, then, non-bot presence established male asks the inevitable question and it's time to reel them in...)
"Me? I'm an 18 year old Comp Sci student, 36/24/34:)))" (Those particular stats confuses some of the geeks, quick establish credentials, give them stuff they understand, think target audience you fool.)
"Did you get hit by the worm? Me neither, I run Gentoo. Yer, MS sucks and blows." (Phew, geeks now accept and idolise. 100 PM's and climbing, stupid males.)

BOFH sits back, scratches beard while patting the ever increasing beer belly, "Another constructive day."

Re:NO WAY!!!???

[snake_dad]

Stop impersonating Anonymous Coward. He's a well respected member of our /. community!

Re:NO WAY!!!???

[Salgak1]

You forgot to hand out Jenny's number.

867-5309. . .

Friendster

[Anonymous Coward]

This is slashdot. People here are not interested in dating because they met a beautiful +3 half-elf on everquest. Please move to the next story.

Re:Friendster

[PhxBlue]

. . .but a beautiful human woman +5 (Insightful) is a whole different story.

fakesta'

[H8X55]

c'mon! it's the web! pretending to be someone else while flirting with the ladies is half the fun.

no wait, i guess that's all the fun.

Re:fakesta'

[Anonymous Coward]

no wait, i guess that's all the fun.

No, you were right. It is half the fun. The other half is realizing that the "lady" is actually a 350 pound smelly Linux hippy in his mom's basement.

Then, of course, if you are Fyodor, you double your fun by hacking teh guy.

Arrrrgh!

[Anonymous Coward]

The next person that puts a product with a stolen naming gimmik is getting an iBullet in the Headster

Re:Arrrrgh!

[Funksaw]

It's not a STOLEN naming gimmick. It's an INFRINGING naming gimmick. There's a difference! The gimmick is merely copied, it's not like Napster loses it's gimmick.

Besides, copying the naming gimmick merely increases the popularity of the naming gimmick and increases the demand for the original! It's like free publicity!

buhu

[invalid_argument]

Who wants to be my friend? I would even accept, if would like to be my foe, but someone, please pay attention to me. Buhuhuhu!

OK then I confess

[Timesprout]

I am not really an 18 year old cheerleader desperate for sex, especially with older men and particularly when my girlfriends can join in.

I am in fact a brussel sprout with time traveling capabilities.

Re:OK then I confess

[Anonymous Coward]

Go on then, talk dirty to me you temporal-shifting little veggie tease you.

Re:What's in a name?

[EvilTwinSkippy]

Well we all know he's seen things that you people wouldn't believe... Starships on fire off the shoulder of Orion ... Sea beams glistening in the dark ... All these moments will be lost ... like teardrops in the rain ... Time to die.

Account Deleted

Yeeugh!

[Anonymous Coward]

"Identity is provisional," Batty insists. "It's fluid."

Just keep your fluids to yourself perv.

On karma whoring

[zonix]

Surely Slashdot (karma whoring, karma whoring) has shown that a self-moderating system can tolerate huge amounts of noise and still turn up valuable content.

I guess on Friendster, that would give a whole new meaning to the word "karma whoring".

z

Re:in several months friendster will charge $s

[Anonymous Coward]

Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Friendster, Inc. All rights reserved. Patent Pending.

Typical.

Place your hands in the red circles...

[da3dAlus]

"Sir, are you classified as human."

"Uh, negative. I am a meat popsicle."

Re:This isn't the first time...

[dr_dank]

For the longest time, someone had a personal ad posted with their pictures being John Candy in drag

Thats my wife, you insensitive clod!

Is anyone pretending to be Slashdot?

[Zog The Undeniable]

Geek discussion site seeks similar for karma wh0ring and meaningful flaming. Interests include Linux, not paying for stuff, and sticking one over on The Man. Dislikes include Microsoft, the RIAA and SCO. Please include a recent screenshot in your reply. All respondents must be compatible with Mozilla 1.4.

Re:as a friendster user

[tiled_rainbows]

...i would hate to see it turn into a worthless connection of inside jokes and half-baked platitudes and simple-minded social consciences.

Yeah, we've got Slashdot for that.

Jesus is coming.. R U Ready?

[DannyiMac]

Ya know, what if Jesus is back and they delete the real Jesus's account... that wouldn't be very nice. Although I don't think it's a sin.... hmmm...

I wonder how big his personal network is...