Blogs can save lives. For example, feedback from helpful readers can tell you if the amazingly cool new girlfriend you just posted about is, in fact, a sociopathic compulsive liar with a long history of screwing people over.
Then Whistleblower followed with a series of identity theft stories. New Girl would steal online photos of various gothgirls and claim to be them in various chat rooms, chatting up gothguys and in some cases convincing them to fly up to meet her. One poor guy came incredibly close to doing so until the person whom she was posing as managed to warn him.

("Gothgirls"? "Gothguys"? Here's clue #1...)

[someone else] then told me about how she and New Girl met, at rehab meetings. Rehab?! And later, since New Girl had no place to stay, she let her stay on her couch. They grew closer and became lovers. Lovers?! And then came the story about how New Girl tried to hide her pregnancy. Pregnancy?!

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Posted by: kstop | http://stunbunny.org/ | Tue Apr 8 15:55:53 2003

Who wouldn't be a compulsive liar, if all that mattered to people was that you had a cool job and graduated from university.

Posted by: sam | http://www.humbug.net | Wed Apr 9 14:17:32 2003

You probably already know this acb, but Accordion Guy actually links to your blog (I thought it was funny that you found his story from boingboing, while he links to you).

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