Sunday, November 13, 2005
Friendster's Fakester Buddies
"Creating fake profiles of bogus people has long been a big no-no at Friendster. Now, in an abrupt turnabout, the social-networking company is promoting Anchorman with bios of the film's characters." By Daniel Terdiman.
It's annoying to see a young tech company like Friendster act so completely greedy. But at the same time, I'm interested in the promotional power of Friendster and Myspace and the like. Social network sites are known for being contagious, if not downright addictive. I feel like there is a huge opportunity with these sites to spread knowledge and artwork and ideas- things other than blockbuster studio films. Anchorman doesn't really need any more promotion than it already has anyway.
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"The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed . . . the deed is everything." --Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Iain” (Idyllic Architecture and Information Networks)
WARNING: We are a group of new media art students interested in the transposition of physical, informational and social architecture. In December 2005, we created a series of profiles on the social networking site MySpace for members of The Glass Chain, a group of German architects who envisioned an ideal society that would be united by a new model of physical and community architecture. Their use of a cryptic language, adoption of pseudonyms, and the exchange of words and pictures among a set of members are aspects that resonate with the structure of Internet communities like MySpace. The Glass Chain “friends” interacted in the MySpace network for a number of weeks, and may be continuing to do so at this time.
The Glass Chain “impersonators” are only one possible intervention of this kind. We encourage you to create your own fake profiles of intellectual interest, infiltrate the social spaces of the Internet, and help re-imagine its architecture. The Glass Chain is a communal project; you may participate, in addition, by adopting their identities:
gmail accounts for the architects:
bruno.taut@gmail.com
max.taut@gmail.com
walter.a.gropius@gmail.com
hermann.finsterlin@gmail.com
adolf.behne@gmail.com
wenzel.hablik@gmail.com
carl.krayl@gmail.com
paul.goesch@gmail.com
hans.luckhardt@gmail.com
wassili.luckhardt@gmail.com
glassfan69@gmail.com (glass groupie)
The password for all MySpace profiles is "myspace1"
The password for all Gmail accounts is "myspace"
The login name and password for this blog is "glasschain" and "myspace1" respectively.
