{"id":178,"date":"2015-01-27T22:50:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T22:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/SS15\/?p=178"},"modified":"2015-01-29T02:59:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T02:59:30","slug":"social-breach-facebook-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/SS15\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"Social Breach – New Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

For my breaching experiment, I decided to make a Facebook profile of my roommate, Cassidy. I wanted to see how an unsolicited duplicate of someone’s person on the internet would affect our reactions outside the internet. This profile would offer as the catalyst for social interactions in person that I will discuss later.<\/p>\n

I used some pictures they took on my computer when they didn\u2019t have one of their own (including the profile picture). They were at work, so I figured this would be the best time to implement this experiment.<\/p>\n

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First, after adding basic information like birthday and school, I started to add several of our closest friends. A few of them added the profile without any problems, possibly because of the status I made saying that they had remade the profile, which is a common occurrence among our friends. With the accessibility of starting new on social media, it seemed to come without surprise.<\/p>\n

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After about 10 minutes or so of editing and curating, there started to be some push back. One of our closest friends named Rachel, posted on the profile\u2019s wall, simply with an angry emoticon face. Another friend of ours asked who it really was. I answered as best I could, reiterating that I was indeed my roommate.<\/p>\n

About 30 minutes into it, it seemed the charade was up once my actual roommate friended the profile and started commenting on the profile picture I had uploaded. Finally, my roommate returned from work, telling me how confused they were and slightly upset. The main reason was the fact that the profile had feminine pronouns, and my roommate identifies as gender neutral. This was a small detail I overlooked that I was trying to change on my computer.<\/p>\n

This was possibly the main reason that they found out, as they glimpsed at my screen. \u201cI thought so!\u201d They exclaimed, also telling me that a couple of our friends messaged them on Facebook in confusion. The charade was up very shortly, due to how quickly we were able to communicate among our friends, and the fact that we live together.
\nI asked if they wanted me to delete it and Cassidy simply responded by saying \u201cContinue using cute pictures of me. If you use shitty pictures, I\u2019m reporting you.\u201d It seemed that they thought it was now funny and urged me to keep using it as them, no longer creeped out or scared by it. The profile sat for a bit before the charade started to seep into the world beyond the internet.<\/p>\n

While having dinner with friends, the profile had spread quite a bit and started to become a source of discussion among us. Why would someone want to adopt the identity of my roommate? But more importantly, who<\/em> was doing this? When fingers started to be pointed, my roommate also acted like they didn’t know. That surprised me initially and I denied any involvement.<\/p>\n

This lead to our friends turning on each other and accusing each other of making this fake profile for no real reason beyond some real joke. They warned that they would find out who it really was, pointing fingers at others still. It was interesting to see our friends start to question each other and how this small occurrence on one social realm, changed their reactions and perceptions in a different one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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