LOLS and other Internet Disasters

[dotinthesky]

Have you experienced a Fake LJ Death? Or perhaps that LJ friend of yours turned out to be the figment of someone's imagination? Then this article is for you.

Comments

[msanthropist.livejournal.com]

...sometimes I have absolutely no idea what people are writing about on LJ and think that maybe I'm missing out on something that could possibly be important or informative or amusing...

How did I get so old and "out of it" so quickly?

[suede.livejournal.com]

That article was great.
I had a friend who faked a suicide, then lots of his friends started commenting on his last entry caring about them, not me, I couldnt really believe it. I cant believe if you are going to commint suicide you log in and tell your lj friends about it. Suicide is about not caring anymore, theres no need for publicity. But well, this boy never came back. But one day I saw a deleted comment on that last entry and the answer to that deleted one made by one of his friends: "its good to know you are ok". But the stupid delete his comments just to check how his friends cared about his fake death... I cant stand that.

[eddieriff.livejournal.com]

So Brad faked it? Is that why the posts keep disappearing?

[la-mascherina.livejournal.com]

Don’t feel tricked Ollie.
It is unspoken rule that a good amount of what is written in this realm should be taken with a pinch of salt, but how were you to know that it was fake suicide attempt? Now you will be that bit wiser to spotting pretenders, but the point is you shouldn’t have to be.
If it’s any consolation you were right to be concerned and contact (as any decent person would) the correct people involved and who could have helped. It could have been real and not somebody’s insalubrious RPG pastime, but we can’t wear our ‘sad/ sick wanker alert’ radar hat all the time, sometimes it needs to be dry-cleaned. ; P

Here is another one for the collection: two popular LJ personalities turn out to be written by one person sat behind the screen.
Not unusual maybe and I would feel amused by this, if only the conflicting sentiments of pity at not having better things to do and envy at having that amount of free time and stamina to write and keep both going didn’t get in the way.

[juego.livejournal.com]

you seem to be a good person.

[sbeth76.livejournal.com]

http://www.livejournal.com/community/fake_lj_deaths/188031.html

[blindscouse.livejournal.com]

Hey Ollie,

I totally admire the way that you've behaved over this. You've shown sensitivity and compassion whereas as that person/thing/wannabe has just shown himself up to be a total dickhead.

I knew somebody in real life who was like this once. Fortunately they grew out of it and we can sort of be friends now. It did take a long time for me to be able to trust them though. Even now, I'm still not sure.

You're cool. What goes around comes around - karma, you know xxx

[izzybees]

Yeah, I had that feeling. I'm sorry that's the case, but I guess I'm also sorry the person is not dead? Not that it matters, since it was apparently a "story" anyway. A pretty badly-written story, too.

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

how sad. crying wolf just makes everyone doubt. I wish it weren't like it, but there will always be pathetic people trying for attention in any way possible. people's capacity for deceit never ceases to amaze me. it's shit like this that makes me want to retreat from online participation. you just never know if you'll become a target...

[beeorkendurkey.livejournal.com]

wow. i'm sorry the douchebag made you fret. i'm just trying to catch up now, reading all this backasswards was confusing for a few moments. glad he's gone now though. karma will kick the bastard's ass.
*hugs you tight*