Fakester

A fakester is a type of account profile found at the Friendster social networking website. Fakesters are often created as a form of online fan club for bands, movie, celebrities, television and book characters, as well as activist groups. The administrators of the site at first tried to discourage this practice by deleting faksters since they did not allow for the true social network to be represented, since part of the idea for Friendster was a pure social experiment to see exactly whom was connected to whom. There were a significant number of Friendster users created these accounts fakester accounts. As the Friendster service had become more popular, official fakesters were created by the Friendster staff to correspond with television and movie characters. By this time, it was too late, and Friendster lost most of its steam since sites like Tribe.net and MySpace.com had features called tribes or groups that users could join that were in the same spirit of the fakester.

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