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chickenfeet ([personal profile] chickenfeet) wrote2006-04-27 08:32 am
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Is this happening to anybody else?

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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[identity profile] badasstronaut.livejournal.com 2006-04-27 12:37 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] rhythmaning.livejournal.com 2006-04-27 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Why would anyone want to do this? Excuse me if this is a naieve question!
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[identity profile] badasstronaut.livejournal.com 2006-04-27 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
To see if they can?
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[identity profile] badasstronaut.livejournal.com 2006-04-27 12:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought I saw some talk of developing its interactive skills.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[identity profile] theomaniac.livejournal.com 2006-04-27 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com 2006-04-27 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Fortunately, not yet
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[personal profile] gillo 2006-04-27 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] helianthas.livejournal.com 2006-04-27 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
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...

[identity profile] roadnotes.livejournal.com 2006-04-27 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

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

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

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