another fake account

[tielan]

Dear spammers and scammers, I am not actually interested in "Jason Statham" supposedly following me. Also, haha, "blue stack is run by my manager" is the stupidest excuse for a firstname.lastname.randomnumber user where the firstname-lastname is allegedly someone famous.

Obviously, though, they must get someone with these phishing lines because they keep doing it. Also, accounts with pics of white American military men (mostly bald).

I mean, if you're going to do this, at least have the reasonable decency to look over my pictures and work out what I'm interested in. Cats, gardens, food, sewing - an account with these sort of interests/photos might catch my eye for longer than it takes to go "oh, report-and-block".

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[ymjoosten]

I keep getting the same thing on Instagram. Ew!

[tielan]

SO MUCH EW.

[jenab]

Any spammers I get on tumblr are that that cleaver. Its usually random letters put together.

[tielan]

I get all the ones with boobilicious women and sex gifs. Which...I don't know how I managed to be a target for that...

[wpadmirer]

I really find those accounts SO annoying. I am besieged by men with no friends and only photos of themselves (yeah, right, like it's really them), wanting me to "friend them." They seem to prey on older women.

[tielan]

Yeah, I'm guessing it's a "older single woman looking for love" financial exploitation opportunity. But ugh, SERIOUSLY NOT INTERESTED, GO AWAY.

[thothmes]

I have a naturalized Palestinian stepfather, and around the time of the 2016 election with all of the talk of a Muslim ban, Islamophobes were coming out of the woodwork, some of them alas! high school classmates and their friends and acquaintances, and as a result I spent some serious social media time trying to change hearts and minds about Muslims. Ultimately it was a rather futile effort, and mostly I got told that living a short while in Palestine and having Muslim family meant my view of Islam was compromised by being too close, and did not have any bearing on the danger Arabs represent. It was infuriating, and not the way I wanted to spend precious hours of my life, but to do anything else was to let down the literal Good Samaritan who helped to bring me up, and his wonderful family.

I also wanted, from early childhood, to be an Egyptologist. I did my undergrad and most of the work for an M.A. in Archaeology, but ultimately our decisions for what we wanted as a family meant that I never pursued the PhD or worked in the field, but I still follow developments as best I can from rural Vermont. I have no regrets.

The upshot of this all? The fake accounts that want to be my bestie are two types: Earnest young men from predominantly Muslim countries, and those U.S. military guys you mentioned. Funny. They never seem to have any posts beyond a single picture or two. I wonder why that is?

As hopeful as they all are, they never had a chance. I will only friend those I know personally or those whose online behavior I have observed over time, and even then I’m careful. Sorry guys!