Blog: Facebook or Facehook?

What started out as a simple experiment to test the emotional defense of youth of this country turned out to be a complete success. My name is Mahen, I am a web developer at Bquad Interactive. The internet is not a very safe place for anyone. Be it the young people or the older ones, its seems everyone is vulnerable to social engineering efforts to achieve some kind of target.

I started out to create a fake Facebook profile on the internet. I put all the necessary information on that profile so that it would appear as real as possible. It is still active as of now and you can still view it here (http://www.facebook.com/rambiarry). Not much fake information was required, but it was necessary for it to be real. I had to to choose a real place where I live. For my name, I chose the forename and surname of two separate friends. Then I also took the handsome photo of another friend to apply it to mine. As of now that friend is still unaware of my act. I also need to show that I attended a school that is only found in that region, that part was simple since I just need to see where all there others went.  Within five months, I was able to make 30 friends and 3 of them were very emotionally attached to me.

The Good sides
In the beginning, I was having difficulty getting new friends. Remember that I needed to start from scratch. No old friends. Only new one. And since I also changed my location, I needed to use the “Find Friends” tool to find new friends based on my new location. Facebook also was quite intelligent to prevent my from adding too many friends. Sometimes, when I would add friends, Facebook will give me warnings that I am not acting like a normal person and that I need to be friend with only the person I only know.

The Bad sides
However, time solves any problem. I kept on adding friends over the weeks. Then weeks turned into months and after 5 months, I was starting to see the results of my experience:

1. People (especially girls) are willing to believe everything they see on the internet.
2. A few nice words is all that a person need to completely open a girl and make her say her deepest secrets.
3. If a girl is on Facebook, it means she is desperate to make new friends and need to feel cared and desired. Wrong people can use that to their advantage.
4. Some girls are too over protected by their parents and sometimes are not allowed out of the house. So they tend to use Facebook as an escape to from their reality.
5. You do not need much resources to fool people on the internet. You need a fake photo, a fake address and a fake job.
6. Most of the time, you just need to tell the girls what they need to hear, it works every time.
7. Remember that most of the time, the girl needs attention, if you give them attention, they will take it.
8. Girls get easily attached to strangers on the internet, I found myself talk to a girl for only 7 hours(not straight) and after these 7 hours, she was completely attached to me. I talked to her for two days straight and on the third day, we had an argument, and did not talk at all. Then next day, she was quite begging that I should talk to her.
9. Some girls are emotionally broken, either because they were rejected by their love  or because of personal differences. If you heal them, they become attached to you and completely dependent on you.

People usually do not care about your interest and hobbies. Sometimes they do check your profile and see if you are being fake. My profile did not have that much information on it, still, some people believed it. I just told them I created the profile 1 month ago and it works. Also, sweet talks goes a long way.

However, during those times, I’ve found out that people tend to be on the internet because they feel desired and feel that there is always someone out there on the interne that will like their Status, Comments, Photos or Videos. This makes them less lonely and desired. They get an escape to the harsh reality of their world.

What makes it work fast?
The best way to make many friends on Facebook is to go on post comments on other people Status messages, photos and groups. Your comments should be either witty, intelligent, or funny, but it must stand out from all the other comments. This way you get many likes and get recognition in the group. Often I find myself posting comments that gave me 8 to 12 Likes. So all that I need to do was to send a friend request to those people (remember, I am targeting only the girls, so most of them are being rejected) and most of them will accept you, because of your awesome comment.

The advantage that Facebook offers is that you can completely BE that person you want to be. You can say, behave and act any way you want on Facebook and no one will stop you. Facebook is the tool that people can use to completely transform into the person they want to be, and there are people out there that will believe you. A man can create a profile for a woman and vice versa and it will work. The real problem will be how to react when the reality opens. I was just doing an experiment and I could hold that lie enough for 5 months.

*Disclaimer: please note that during this experiment, no girls were hurt either physically or emotionally. It was my aim just to see how far people can go on the internet, with just fake information. As soon as I saw that matters were getting complicated, I stopped the whole experiment and started to write this document.