On The Internet, Nobody Knows You’re Fiction

June 15, 2004

So I’m surfing kottke, and he’s talking about Plain Layne, a Minnesota weblogger that is most likely an internet hoax. I’m fascinated by internet hoaxes but I’m also kind of bored with them now, just because there are SO MANY. What piqued my interest about this one was Jason Kottke’s summary of the past year in Plain Layne:

In the past two years, Layne has discovered she’s bisexual; fell in love with a Spanish go-go dancer; made room in her home for her cousin’s pregnant girlfriend and now her newborn infant; met up with one of her birth parents for the first time; recounted a fling she had with a former boss (who had a girlfriend at the time); hinted at a rape she endured in Mexico (which turned her into a lesbian); charmed a straight woman co-worker into sleeping with her, becoming her girlfriend and then fiancee (!); broken off the engagement with said co-worker; frequently hooked up with one of the ex-fiancee’s friends (another straight girl, if you can believe it); most recently slept with three women in the same week; and somehow, as all this was going on, held down a job at a large corporation working 80 hours a week managing a very successful IT group.

Now… how the hell does anyone think that’s real? It just makes me wish I was reading Plain Layne all of last year. Good god.

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