Abs (9:13 AM): You know, for the longest time I've always been confused when people complain about bots on websites like Facebook
Chocoholic (9:14 AM): how so?
Chocoholic (9:14 AM): Or why, rather.
Abs (9:15 AM): because I never really ran across them. I mean I've seen fake accounts before, but until today never one that was run completely by code
Fast Sloth (9:16 AM): You didn't actually fall for it, did you?
Abs (9:17 AM): God no. But it was hilarious. This account had been friended already by a whole bunch of people I know, so I just added them. "whatever" and all that
Abs (9:18 AM): No more than five seconds after i accepted the friend request they sent me a message. I answered, tried to figure out if I knew them
Book Lover (9:19 AM): guy or girl fake account?
Abs (9:20 AM): guy. Thing was the picture looked familiar, so I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt. Turns out they stole the picture from someone I actually knew
Abs (9:21 AM): So I figure out they're fake and threaten to report them. The bot tries to convince me "Its me, man!" but I guess the code failed(?) Because it wound up just sending me the same message over and over until I unfriended them
Chocoholic (9:23 AM): A link to an external site?
Abs (9:24 AM): Nope. Just "Give me a chance. Give me a chance." sent, like, once a minute
Rose (9:25 AM): bad programmer, sounds like. Hopefully nobody else fell for it though
Abs (9:26 AM): I doubt it, but I'll make sure to warn them just in case. How about you guys, any catfish stories?
Chocoholic (9:28 AM): I'm not sure if it qualifies, but my modeling agent back in the day got a photo shoot request from a fake email address. Thankfully he didn't go through with scheduling it.
Snowflake (9:29 AM): Just the occasional blatantly misleading ads to my email address. That's why I now have a personal and a business account, just so I dont lose important things among all the trash
A (9:31 AM): sis and I get people pretending they're our old friends from childhood. "heeey, baby, remember me? It's" insert generic af name.
Rose (9:32 AM): please tell me one of them named themselves Tony. It's such an obvious fake name
T (9:33 AM): one guy did try to pretend he was iron man. I think he was too drunk to remember that he's a comic book character
Abs (9:34 AM): geez. It takes serious stones to pretend to be one of the richest superheroes ever known
T (9:35 AM): right? Like, I better hear that robot assistants voice coming out of his electric heart or whatever
Dragon (9:36 AM): You mean J.A.R.V.I.S.
T (9:36 AM): found the nerd
Dragon (9:37 AM) How does knowing that make me a nerd?!
A (9:38 AM): You made sure to add the periods between each letter instead of just saying the damn name
Dragon (9:40 AM): shit
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Book Lover (6:32 PM): So, I just got finished making a crowdfunging page for my Fanfiction
Rose (6:34 PM): what, like the one where people pay you once a month?
Book Lover (6:35 PM): That's the one. Although I don't have it by month, as I don't update my main stories frequently enough for that to be fair to any patrons.
Snowflake (6:36 PM): I know that money is a bad thing to loan between friend, but if you need help I'm here, Blake.
Book Lover (6:37 PM): Thanks, Weiss, but I'm not broke or anything
Book Lover (6:38 PM): It would just be nice to actually have some spending money for once instead of everything I earn already being claimed
Luna (6:40 PM): I can see why. Tuition, books, food, housing, plus thinking about the poor souls out there with student loans to look forward to. It's rough these days
Book Lover (6:42 PM): right. I love writing, and even if nobody gives me a dime I'll still do it. It's just that a little help goes a long way.
Chocoholic (6:43 PM): best of luck!
Fast Sloth (6:44 PM): Good luck! But don't you get lazy!
Dragon (6:46 PM): Good luck, let me know how it feels to be a prostitute
Book Lover (6:47 PM): what
Dragon (6:48 PM): I mean, you're advertising your skills and asking for money in return. You're a hooker.
Book Lover (6:49 PM): Yang Xiao Long you take that back
Dragon (6:50 PM): What? I didn't say you're selling your body! Just your passion! Right, Abs?
Rose (6:51 PM): Sun it's a trap, don't fall into it.
Luna (6:52 PM): Sun, just walk. Away.
Dragon (6:53 PM): Abs, is she or is she not good at what she does?
Ninja (6:54 PM): Sun, we can see you typing! NO!
Fast Sloth (6:55 PM): YES
Abs (6:57 PM): Blake Belladonna is a great writer. That is all I will say.
Dragon (6:58 PM): See? Was that so hard?
Book Lover (6:59 PM): You're terrible
Dragon (7:00 PM): Always.
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