What’s a fake user? What’s fake?
On Instagram, the photo-sharing social network for the iPhone, I caught eye of a drama that’s unfolding right now over who is a fake user and a real user – not to mention the distinction between fake photo and real photo.
Here’s the blow by blow.
- User @sunshinepeyton starts posting pics that are not her.
- User @chicago has a contest which the fake account won.
- Other folks start getting accused of being fake, e.g. @jakec223 , and starts the #iamnotfake tag.
- @chicago calls out the faker. See below.
- Users start posting photos of themselves with text to try and show they’re not fake, e.g. “My name is Jake @jakec223. I am not fake.”
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So are these people fake or not? An what’s the point of faking an IG account?
In this case, the point was to steal someone’s identity which is illegal.