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But, according to Stealing MySpace, the definitive history of MySpace, by Julia Angwin, Anderson also thought he could deliberately appeal to the so-called fakesters, “to create a site where users could create any identity they liked.”

The Facebook Effect David Kirkpatrick 2010

These "fakesters" portray themselves as everything from inanimate objects like the World Trade Center to celebrities like Paris Hilton to historical forces like War (which lists its profession as "resolving disputes").

Boing Boing 2003

Abrams was resolute that people on Friendster should use their real names, and he kicked lots of the fakesters off.

The Facebook Effect David Kirkpatrick 2010

It also started to have public relations troubles—it engaged in a very public battle with so-called “fakesters,” users who were deliberately creating Friendster profiles using phony names and identities, including cartoon characters and dogs.

The Facebook Effect David Kirkpatrick 2010

Friendster cracked down on fakesters and it reduced a way fans could engage.

fans: rise of the machines / what consumes me, bud caddell 2009

The purpose of this automated service line appears to be: customers call this number to verify that the account should be set up with the ability to make international calls, to prevent fakesters from racking up huge fraudulent phone bills on other people's accounts.

Boing Boing 2006

And finally, indulge in nostalgia for when the iPhone — or iTalk — was just the glimmer in the eye of fakesters looking for a moment of Internet glory.

iPhone: The Ingenue in Motion 2007

Taking away fakesters didn't make Frienster more real.

Boing Boing: February 8, 2004 - February 14, 2004 Archives 2004

Emboldened by their masks and often preferring the weird over the normal, fakesters are turning Friendster on its ear.

Boing Boing 2003

I have met so many fakesters like yourself, and everytime I do, I grow sicker and sicker of the sight of people like you. haslett84 wrote: Christians are against gay marriage why.

Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local Yankee47 2010