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Offline cmonkey

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« on: October 27, 2003, 05:33:47 pm »
Well, I was a little bored today, when suddenly I got a message on AIM:  
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u have to try this!!!!!!!! It's called the 'mind reader' it's soooooo freaky.If you ssend this to ten people and then press shift+F1 your crush's namewill pop.
Obviosly it had been spreading around the net for a while, and people were dumb enough to spread it.  So, I decided to try a little experiment...

I tried to make it seem as natural as possible:
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OMG, You HAVE to try this, itz soo freeky!  It reads your mind.  If you send this to 15 people and then hit alt + F4, your crush's name will pop up.  Try it, its not fake!

In case you didn't know, Alt+F4 closes the window.  Anywho, at around 8:15 PM EST, I let loose my creation on the web.  I sent it to around 15 people originally.  Within minutes, I was getting dozens of IMs from people.  It was rediculous.  At around 8:30 people were telling me that they were getting the message.  I cant believe that it was still going around... Just goes to show the power of the internet, and the stupidity of it's population...  I'm going to be making another one in a few days.  It will include a link to a page, so I can track exactly how fast it spreads and how far it spreads.

So, did any of you get/send the message?
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« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2003, 05:37:42 pm »
No. I don't have AIM. And my friends aren't THAT stupid, wel, maybe some of them.

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« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2003, 05:40:10 pm »
Proof that theres a sucker born every minute...

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« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2003, 06:00:22 pm »
There is about 50 of those floating around. Yea it is kinda of weird that they said ALT+F4.

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« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2003, 06:01:19 pm »
No, I said alt+f4.  I started that one.
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« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2003, 06:03:30 pm »
O O O ok. Good 1 then. I thought someone did that. So nvm.

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« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2003, 07:04:45 pm »
Lmao, I got about 5 of those. Cmonkey, I was looking at your profile and I saw that some Ducklove person IMed it to you or something. I know that person. She used to be on my guild in Neopets. Strange.

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« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2003, 07:07:03 pm »
It's a small world.  :biggrin:  
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