[Shikari]

Hi all,

Just got back from Mallorca where I found out that on Facebook someone that I probably know has created a fake account (J*zzabelle C***flaps)> They used this to spread rumours about my friend, and pretended they were me in private conversations, using relatively common knowlegede/rumours (within in my circle of friends) to prove they were 'me'.

The account has since been deleted, and ,as far as I know, no-one believed it was me, when they decided to make up a rumour that was extraordinarily poor and obviously a lie. However, I'd very much like to try and find out who it was and they insulted my friends using me as a cover.

Any ideas on how to go about this? I'm willing to 'interrogate' (friendly chat, with myabe a few lines to catch them out? any thoughts?) the ones I think guilty.

It's a bit of a joke, yes, but at the same time...

Any thoughts, ideas or advice I can use to track down this criminal mastermind?

Thanks,

Shikari

[HerrComm]

Provided it was nothing extraordinarily malicious I'd just take it as a joke and move on mate. If someone you know has a problem with you but doesn't have the cahones to say it to your face, that's their issue not yours.

[Shikari]

Thing is though, they were slagging off my mates but pretending to be me to hide who they are. It's messed up my mate, who can't trust people any more, because of the stuff that was said to have happened between me and her boyfriend...even though we're both straight guys.

Anyway, I have a list of suspects, two very strong ones but no motive. I think it wasn't just a joke. It may have started that wasy but it became malicious.

Thanks,

Shikari

[gdwnet]

Report it to facebook leave it be and move on. If your mate has problems with it then he might want to close his profile for a bit.

Just on the subject of facebook and cyberbulling I feel that I need to point out that you don't need facebook, it's just an online portal for people, I logon to my account there about once a week.

True friends will stick by you no matter what has been put online by some moron, true friends will met up and go out for a drink without needing to be arranged by a damn online tool.

But then I'm getting old these days and I remember the days before the internet....

[The Quattro]

I'll be completely straight with you. I seem to get these sort of jobs reported to me all the time and it gets on my nerves a bit because people seem to have lost the ability to deal with their own problems these days. Report it, ignore it, tell your mates it's all just made up tosh and move on. It's only a website.

[Linky83]

Shikari, on 30 July 2010 - 09:23 PM, said:

Hi all,

Just got back from Mallorca where I found out that on Facebook someone that I probably know has created a fake account (J*zzabelle C***flaps)> They used this to spread rumours about my friend, and pretended they were me in private conversations, using relatively common knowlegede/rumours (within in my circle of friends) to prove they were 'me'.

The account has since been deleted, and ,as far as I know, no-one believed it was me, when they decided to make up a rumour that was extraordinarily poor and obviously a lie. However, I'd very much like to try and find out who it was and they insulted my friends using me as a cover.

Any ideas on how to go about this? I'm willing to 'interrogate' (friendly chat, with myabe a few lines to catch them out? any thoughts?) the ones I think guilty.

It's a bit of a joke, yes, but at the same time...

Any thoughts, ideas or advice I can use to track down this criminal mastermind?

Thanks,

Shikari

I guess you have to wonder why your friend accepted a friend request from someone claiming to be J*zzabelle C***flaps!! Hardly the most common of names!!

[gdwnet]

Linky83, on 02 August 2010 - 05:00 PM, said:

I guess you have to wonder why your friend accepted a friend request from someone claiming to be J*zzabelle C***flaps!! Hardly the most common of names!!

Have you seen the amount of friends some people have? It runs into the thousands and maybe I'm being a bit jaded but I really doubt that people have that many real friends.

[Linky83]

gdwnet, on 02 August 2010 - 10:30 PM, said:

Have you seen the amount of friends some people have? It runs into the thousands and maybe I'm being a bit jaded but I really doubt that people have that many real friends.

it is worrying when it's like 800 people ... I think people must import there school register and works payroll database! Sigh!

[PW90]

With all due respect, Shikari - is it really that big of a deal? If your friend is as traumatised as you make out by this incident then perhaps Facebook isn't somewhere they should be frequenting - it is, after all, a website. The Internet is an anonymous place - many younger people seem to forget that!

Actually speak to the friends you feel have been affected by it and tell them it was a load of rubbish. The name should have been a dead giveaway, anyway.

I am reminded of this clip from Family Guy: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=VmrgXdjFaoQ

I don't wish to piddle over your problem, as I am sure it has affected you, else you wouldn't be posting here - however i'm trying to get you to see it from a different perspective

[WhatAmIDoing]

Would one really believe what Miss Flaps had to say?

[MikeBrum]

Why would 'you' say it was you if you were her? Do/Did your friends believe it?

[Linky83]

PW90, on 03 August 2010 - 09:21 AM, said:

I am reminded of this clip from Family Guy: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=VmrgXdjFaoQ

Great Link PW90