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People telling big lies about themselves on the Internet (pg. 4)
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| dj_alfi |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
I thought Neo deleted Nou's posts? |
ah ok so it was the other supermod that deleted his posts. My bad. |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by Vector A
Who was Krysta? |
As far as I know, either nobody knows, or few do but haven't said. As a personal friend, I can confirm it wasn't Nou. Not sure why Alfi continues to insist that across multiple threads today... |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| It was {b.s.e.}! |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| There was a guy on another forum I used to post on who invented a girlfriend who also posted on the forum. This girl was supposed to be Chinese, and he just posted pictures of random Chinese girls who after some time were noticeably different people. Amazingly this fictional girlfriend racked up a good 3,000 posts over a couple of years before he admitted it was bull. What's more, he stopped posting under his original account name after a while, so he was basically pretending to be a ditzy Chinese girl for years on end. |
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| dj_alfi |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
There was a guy on another forum I used to post on who invented a girlfriend who also posted on the forum. This girl was supposed to be Chinese, and he just posted pictures of random Chinese girls who after some time were noticeably different people. Amazingly this fictional girlfriend racked up a good 3,000 posts over a couple of years before he admitted it was bull. What's more, he stopped posting under his original account name after a while, so he was basically pretending to be a ditzy Chinese girl for years on end. |
i also read about a guy who invented a twitter girlfriend or something, that was an asian model i think, and had followers in the pentuple of hexuple digits, before getting outed as a fake. |
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| Vector A |
| Yeah, I have heard a few "fictional Asian girlfriend" stories over the years. :haha: |
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| Lira |
I'm with Jake here. I've never met Nou, but there's nothing about Krysta that resembles him.
| quote: | Originally posted by Arbiter
The first problem is that there's no consensus on what's "wrong." You can either follow the New York Times Rule (don't do anything you wouldn't be comfortable being printed on the front page of the New York Times) and censor yourself down the lowest common denominator or you run the risk something you did (and then broadcasted online) or wrote will be found objectionable by someone down the line. It's not a small number of people who've been fired for things on Facebook that I personally wouldn't call "wrong," to say nothing of the many more who didn't get the job in the first place for such reasons. |
That's precisely what I had in mind. I didn't meant to get overly technical but by wrong I mean "anything that may be considered wrong by those whose opinion matters to you and/your goals".
If your potential employers finds a problem that defies common sense, then maybe you're better off working for someone else anyway.
| quote: | Originally posted by Arbiter
Interesting, well-rounded people are multi-faceted. How they act and what they choose to share is a highly context-sensitive process, and rightly so. The ability to keep some facets of ourselves private, beyond judgment, in certain contexts is an ability to be cherished. It allows us to strengthen and maintain relationships by compartmentalizing confounding elements away. But when people broadcast those aspects of themselves to a vast, online audience, that ability is lost--and, as far as I can see, we're all poorer for it. |
Well, of course I'm not saying we should post everything about ourselves online, but what I mean is that there isn't any need for too much secrecy either, as there's a difference between being mysterious and just being downright creepy (you're the former, by the way :p). There are some things you should keep to yourself, other things you might disclose to a friend, and a few facts you may share with the world... But hiding everything - including your full identity - gives the impression you're not trustworthy, don't you think? Unless, of course, you want to overthrow the government or right a wrong without jeopardising your integrity... but this is not likely to happen around here :p
I admit I make mistakes like everyone else, and overshared things that perhaps didn't belong here (e.g. the picture that sparked the "trainers in weddings" brouhaha last year), but it's a price I'm willing to pay.
| quote: | Originally posted by Arbiter
I don't mean to reprimand you for your openness, I just think there's a place for modesty, and also for mystery, in human relationships. More than that, I think they're valuable components of human relationships. Just because you're comfortable with how you look doesn't mean you'd choose to stand around naked in Times Square. |
Actually, I wholeheartedly agree with you here.
| quote: | Originally posted by Vector A
Yeah, I have heard a few "fictional Asian girlfriend" stories over the years. :haha: |
*goes poke own fiancée to check she's real* |
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| Lira |
| Ouch. She is... and so is my black eye now :( |
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| dj_alfi |
| I think you poked her too hard dude. |
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| Lira |
| Well, I had to make sure she exists :p |
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| Marcus Summers |
| I'm actually an indian tech support guy for dell |
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| Zharen |
| quote: | Originally posted by Vector A
In the past couple of days, we had a TA ("Looney4Clooney") who routinely claimed some very impressive musical credentials get exposed as a (probable) fake here.
Perhaps the most infamous episode on this board was Frenchie lying about having cancer and being a TV producer in Los Angeles.
Do you guys have any other good stories about bigtime Internet fakers who have been "outed," either here or elsewhere? |
Holy LOL. Well I'm glad he's been found out. I already figured the pic he posted of himself wasn't real, so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised to learn that his "impressive musical education" was also a farce.
Still, Frenchie's cancer patient lie has got to be the most surprising one I've ever seen on a forum. Who ing does that? |
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