Is this happening to anybody else?

Apr. 27th, 2006 08:32 am
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For the second time in recent weeks I got "friended" by someone (sic) who's journal appears to be computer generated. It looks like a scam to access "friend only" entries though for what purpose I can't imagine. The journal in question is [livejournal.com profile] sable_debutante. Has anyone else experienced this?
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Date: 2006-04-27 12:37 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] badasstronaut.livejournal.com
That journal is a bot made by someone who's someone I don't know personally but is part of my home-town university geek crowd. It crawls around friending people, and spits out entries composed of amalgams of friendslist posts.

Date: 2006-04-27 12:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhythmaning.livejournal.com
Why would anyone want to do this? Excuse me if this is a naieve question!

Date: 2006-04-27 12:52 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] badasstronaut.livejournal.com
To see if they can?

Date: 2006-04-27 12:54 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] badasstronaut.livejournal.com
I thought I saw some talk of developing its interactive skills.

Date: 2006-04-27 12:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] frumiousb.livejournal.com
It unfriends you quickly enough if you don't friend it back. I got it last week.

Date: 2006-04-27 12:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kadenza.livejournal.com
They won't be able to access "friend only" entries unless you friend them back.

Date: 2006-04-27 12:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com
I realise that. I'm just curious about how widespread this is.

Date: 2006-04-27 12:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rparvaaz.livejournal.com
I got the same thing last week. Gone now.

Date: 2006-04-27 01:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kadenza.livejournal.com
Hmm. For all I know, it could have happened to me but I didn't notice.

Date: 2006-04-27 06:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] helianthas.livejournal.com
interestingly, the user has like 750 friends, both that s/he friended and who have friended him/her back!

Date: 2006-04-27 01:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] belasco.livejournal.com
I got something similar, a "user" called [livejournal.com profile] fuf. I checked it out, and didn't bother friending it back.

Date: 2006-04-27 01:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dherblay.livejournal.com
[livejournal.com profile] sable_debutante friended me on the fifteenth and defriended me on the sixteenth. I was pretty torn up about that.

Date: 2006-04-27 01:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com
boson lurv!

Date: 2006-04-27 01:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com
Argh! Singularity! Run! Hide!

Date: 2006-04-27 02:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theomaniac.livejournal.com
Another possible motivation could be the usual spam related nonsense. To sell you pills or pornography or whatever.

There is a way you can block specific journals from friending you. I just don't remember the method at present.

Date: 2006-04-27 04:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com
Fortunately, not yet

Date: 2006-04-27 05:01 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] gillo
I have one person(?) who friended me and has zero on his/her/its lj. It's been there for a long while, but I'm not friending back without knowing something at least about this entity, like if it's a person or not for starters.

Date: 2006-04-27 05:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] helianthas.livejournal.com
someone friended me-- i think they found me thru the bodypaint community-- and all he had on his community list were comms like "show_your_tits" and "show_your_pussy" etc. I think I banned him...

Date: 2006-04-27 11:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] roadnotes.livejournal.com
I feel the same way. I have people who have never posted on my friends list, but they're people I know in real life, who use LJ as a way of keeping up, much as we did with apas back in the day. But someone who appears out of the blue? Without sharing any information about themself with me? No, thank you.

Date: 2006-04-29 03:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daubentonia.livejournal.com
I took a look at this journal, and though fake, the replies to the posts are actally entertaining reading. Sorta.

Date: 2006-04-29 03:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com
It's pretty astonishing how many people seem to think they are interacting with a real person.

Date: 2006-04-29 03:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com
Mind you, they probably think that about me too.
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