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Mashable - The Social Media Guide: REAL OR FAKE: One Woman’s Embarrassing Facebook Message

  • Christine Catleugh · 3 months ago
    Shame on Mashable for posting such a trashy, not news-worthy story. There are so many other great stores I could have wasted my time on. I'm embarrassed that I even rolled to the bottom of this useless page to write a comment.
  • JP · 3 months ago
    Honestly, I couldn't agree more. This is trash news and shame on me for reading it.
  • luca filigheddu · 3 months ago
    I don't think it is trash. It is one more alert that Social Media must be dangerous (or embarassing, at least) if not used properly. Maybe that account has been hacked, too... so the story is even worse. I find this post useful to warn about the downside of using social media tools in the wrong way.
  • lindyK · 3 months ago
    Must be a very slow news day if this post is making all the headlines. Yawn.
  • Vikram · 3 months ago
    What are you ? a tabloid now ??? Last count you had 1322694 followers !!! I dont think you have to do this to increase your followers ... Real or fake ??? why cant you decide ? What if she is real and her account was actually hacked .... or god forbid, she made a mistake ... You spread the embarrassment to 1322694 more people ... Talk about responsibilities ...
  • JetSetJunior · 3 months ago
    Fake or Not its Hilarious "You are permanently invited to "the love-care-between-my-legs" I DIEEEE!!!!!
  • Terry Hayes · 3 months ago
    Interesting nobody has commented on the fact she's engaged...

    This is definitely a fake though. There's simply no way you make that mistake, plus what woman seriously uses the term "love cave" when describing themselves??
  • kurtstarnes · 3 months ago
    The "engaged" part is fake, too, according to her friends' posts on her FB page.
  • Arijit Das · 3 months ago
    Ya... you are absolutely right!!
  • kurtstarnes · 3 months ago
    It's fake, according to the current activity on her FB page.
  • iHouse · 3 months ago
    How do you know. Maybe she has already deleted the message so it's not possible to check if its fake or not. Only Mark Z. knows :))

    What do your friends think about you? Find out!
  • ^Stephen · 3 months ago
    Hacked by 4chan, to be precise. Full scoop and screenshots here: http://bit.ly/facebook-hacked

    Once again, Mashable fails to dig up the full story behind an event. Fail.
  • JadedTLC · 3 months ago
    This was a part of a 4chan hack and is FAKE. http://www.sodahead.com/news/16485/fundamentali...
  • Mike Dammann · 3 months ago
    I dunno, but I just requested one of the two people on her friends list as a friend and will ask :D
  • Jason Yu · 3 months ago
    Are you kidding me?! "No! Please, tell me how to get rid of this post!" I think she didn't take the facebook tour before getting her account or didn't scroll over to see the X for delete. She should stick to Twitter. Can't decide, but I think it was either a hacker or the real "Tracy"
  • Brad · 3 months ago
    Yes, I agree. It was either a hacker or Tracey. Thanks for narrowing down the list of suspects.
  • Mark Griesser · 3 months ago
    Check out the brain on Brad.(pulp fiction plug) I do so very much enjoy seeing sarcasm especially in it most raw form. He just set you up perfectly. Just like. Walking up to a golf ball on a new tee with that big driver. Distance? Who cares just grip it and rip it. Yes! Thankyou brad. I do like a tasty Kahuna burger...
  • yougotthatright · 3 months ago
    "check out the BIG brain on BRETT"... Quentin Tarantino hates you...
  • Bilal Bhatti · 3 months ago
    Haha poor Micheal :D or poor Tracy? :D
  • kurtstarnes · 3 months ago
    I have heard that 4Chan has been targeting Christians on FB. Based on her FB vanity url, it is possible she was singled out, IMHO.
  • Kerry · 3 months ago
    I've seen people make a lot of mistakes on facebook and this one seems right up the alley of someone who isn't aware of the many different ways to respond. Amateur facebooking, from a phone is another way people get confused. From what I've heard, a lot of cell phone apps don't have the delete function or it's difficult to find and I've had more than a few friends send out an appeal to have someone in front of a computer, log in to their account to delete an inadvertant, poorly thought out update. No matter what the circumstances, real, fake or prank, the girl being publicly disparaged here is traumatized. Do not forget that as this spreads and we help it spread, there is a real person suffering the consequences of our insensitivity.
  • kurtstarnes · 3 months ago
    Scoop: "Yes, this is fake. Last night, 4chan found an exploit in a dating website that shows the entire list of users and passwords." Found at Reddit, FYI.
  • miguelrios · 3 months ago
    Fake!
  • tropicalismo360 · 3 months ago
    I think she's faking it!
  • kurtstarnes · 3 months ago
    Latest post on Tracy's FB Wall: " EVERYONE!!!!!! MY SISTER'S ACCOUNT HAS BEEN HACKED SHE IS NOT ENGAGED AND DIDNT WRITE ANY OF THOSE THINGS...WE ARE ALL RECEIVING EMAILS FROM GUYS SAYING TO TELL TRACY STUFF AND CHANGE HER PASSWORD...DO NOT OPEN ANYTHING OR DO NOT ACCEPT FRIENDS ...REQUEST FROM PEOPLES NAMES YOU DONT KNOW...TRACY CANT EVEN GET INTO FACEBOOK OR HER PERSONAL EMAIL!!!! SO SHE CANT SEE ANY COMMENTS YOU WRITE!!!"
  • Mary Winkenwerder · 3 months ago
    Thank you for defending this woman's honor. This seems to be clearing up. Thank you
    Mr. Cashmore for posting the situation so someone could clear it up! :-)
  • kurtstarnes · 3 months ago
    No problem. As you can see below, many folks didn't read the comments up here that fairly clearly explained the hack. Take care. :->
  • Jennifer Ramirez · 3 months ago
    its so fake...like come on now ...no body in their rite mind is goin to write dat in a comment .......when u want it to b discrete u write in a message....
  • Mrs4444 · 3 months ago
    Okay, so she's engaged, but she's out getting laid by someone else? Hmmmm. Regardless, it's funny!!
  • TripleM · 3 months ago
    too bad for her.. Fb now allows users to search for wall messages :)
  • Jason C · 3 months ago
    You mean it didn't come from Sarah Palin? She posts embarassing messages all the time.
  • Mrs4444 · 3 months ago
    Okay, so she's engaged, but she's out getting laid by someone else? Hmmmm. Regardless, it's funny!! I think it's fake, though. What woman says sht like that?!
  • PandorazBox80 · 3 months ago
    Question: Why were some of the names scribbled over? If the original poster of this screenshot was really concerned about protecting the privacy of those involved, then he or she wouldn't have made it so incredibly easy for people to search for the names of the last commenter and first three friends shown on this page. From there, you look through their friends for a woman named Tracy using the same display photo as is shown in this screenshot. Good job protecting her.
    Having said that, I don't much care about the debate over whether this is real, fake, or the result of hacking or phishing. If it's real, she's a moron, and so is her fiance if he still marries her (assuming he exists; that's under debate, too). If it's fake, somebody has way too much time on their hands, and I feel sorry for the woman whose photo was used if it was without her permission. And if it's hacking/phishing, it sucks to be her. Regardless, it is kind of funny, especially considering the reactions of all those who commented.
  • nico78 · 3 months ago
    fake. if she's that stupid for real, she wouldn't get laid. btw, this story doesn't belong here. also I assume some names have not been anonymized on purpose. #fail
  • Chris Seline · 3 months ago
    No kidding, dumb girls never get laid. Especially cute, blonde ones.

    Pete Cashmore wrote the article, so by definition it belongs here.
  • Janan Zonker · 3 months ago
    Too bad no one thought to blur out her friends names. Taking a bit of effort, you can find her :p
  • Matt Batt · 3 months ago
    Nice...did anyone happen to see that her status is "Engaged" - bet the fiance loved this prank, truth, etc.:)
  • Jason C · 3 months ago
    You mean it didn't come from Sarah Palin? She posts embarassing messages all the time.
  • Nathan · 3 months ago
    I'm surprised you didn't blur out the other names before posting. I know you can find those names on other versions of the photo easily, but still.
  • Matthew Lowery · 3 months ago
    Epic Fail.
  • MTM · 3 months ago
    Did Pete Cashmore's account get hacked or did he deliberately post this to add insult to this person's (possible) injury?
  • Torrey · 3 months ago
    Don't know whether fake or not, but who cares. So what she got shagged well.. That's a good thing. At least she didn't dog Michael out about the size of his johnson... lol...
  • Charles · 3 months ago
    Genuine thought? Probably not. I think it's a genuine mistake though.
  • Mary Winkenwerder · 3 months ago
    This is funny. Is it real? If she is faking the post, for what reason did she create the post?
    Another microwave situation perhaps?
  • Ian Fernando · 3 months ago
    its real the facebook page was found! http://www.facebook.com/jesuslust?v=feed&story_...
  • bowerbird · 3 months ago
    what's so "embarrassing" here?
    she likes being mounted by a strong, powerful man.
    i know lots of women who like that.

    -bowerbird
  • dbs · 3 months ago
    ... yeah, and some men too!? ;-*
  • Matunos · 3 months ago
    Whoever made that graphic, good work on covering up everyone's surname except for one friend, making it quite easy to locate Tracy regardless.
  • Bruno · 3 months ago
    Sounds like a legitimate comment but posted on the wrong site.
    These things go by the thousnads on the net, No one cares. ( So What)
  • dbs · 3 months ago
    well, don't know for sure, but the last name on that screenshot was not blacked out, and there IS a "Tiffany Ginn Vichob" listed on Facebook.
  • Jason · 3 months ago
    She's trying to cover it all up by pretending its fake....!!!!!!
  • peter forsberg · 3 months ago
    it's easy to see that it was forged. the first comment (her's) is, at the time of the screenshot, 59 minutes old while the original post is only 58 minutes old.
  • Bartlomiej · 3 months ago
    it, is fake of course! this girl looks like a women from "burda" cataloug...
  • Bartlomiej · 3 months ago
    it, is fake of course! this girl looks like a women from "burda" cataloug...
  • GodYama · 3 months ago
    ¡¡ Que pedazo de atorranta !! jejejejeejejejeje
  • Rachel · 3 months ago
    Terry, I got to this party late but I was going to comment that she is engaged - to the wrong guy, if she hasn't had sex in a while.

    As for the content, maybe I don't read enough romance novels but I can't imagine using wording like that in a private romantic email. "getting mounted by" I do not think I have EVER, EVER thought about it that way. I'm not a horse! It reads like a bad attempt at love scene in a romance novel.

    It sounds fake. Whether she wrote it herself to get attention or she was hacked I don't know but it's just too funny and silly to seem real!
  • Jeff Alldridge · 3 months ago
    It appears her account was hacked according to more comments on her wall: http://www.facebook.com/jesuslust?ref=sgm#/jesu...

    Do you think her vanity domain was hacked too?
  • Karl · 3 months ago
  • AlejandroGRodriguez · 3 months ago
    Fake or not, it is a serious matter if searching for a job. Most of us know the close relationship between networks and job search. Security is very important to protect personal data.
  • John Piercy · 3 months ago
    updated- 4Chan launches embarrassing attack on devout Christians on Facebook
    http://thenextweb.com/2009/08/22/4chan-launches...
  • Beth Granter · 3 months ago
    Pretty shocking that the other names weren't blurred out - can you fix that asap? It's so easy now to find her real name and profile, and those of her friends. It's really not fair that her friends, and probably her, are getting harassed now by pervy guys (according to a recent comment on her public Facebook) as a result of this publicity.
  • Sold Out Activist · 3 months ago
    No one who believes in and practices abstinence refers to it in such a manner. And certainly doesn't call their vagina a "love-cave." And if she didn't believe in abstinence, and was referring to the fact she couldn't get laid, calling it "abstinence" would imply she did it on purpose.
  • World Processor · 3 months ago
    Who cares?!!!!! Why is this making the news ... Who wants to read that?
    I just wasted two minutes of my afternoon
  • Brad · 3 months ago
    This isn't "the news." But I'm sure Mashable is flattered that you think so.
  • me-mo · 3 months ago
    "Other Pussy ?" WTF ?
    It's hard enough to get the original,much less the"other"one.
  • fuck facebock · 3 months ago
    facebook is stupid, please remove you link from stumble fuck head
  • Mario Trevino · 3 months ago
    rofl. cleaning out the cobwebs in the attic eh?
  • anon · 3 months ago
    anon ftw. dumbass.
  • Phoebe King · 3 months ago
    Mashable-
    Please X out the names on this person's Friends list. I just located the profile of the person who apparently had her FB profile hacked. Her wall is accessible to all -- even without friending her first. I was recently "friended" by somebody I didn't know without my permission. Please do not make it easier than it already is to infiltrate people's FB profiles. Please show some respect for other people's privacy. Thanks!
  • Robert Hurst · 3 months ago
    This isn't news, Its just a stupid way to humiliate someone. Even if its not a read person why are you spreading this shit? god dammit I hate you people that have nothing else to do than talk about other people. Go get a real hobby that actually benefits us, or an education first if you happen to need it too.
  • Piks · 3 months ago
    Come on girls don't talk like that. Its fake, they don't say 'mounted' or Describe their guys as "strong and powerful'.. "love cave" come on who talks like that...
  • leyla_a · 3 months ago
    it could be real, if you search her friends, they pop up. http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=debbie+kirkwo...
  • GlenCoco · 3 months ago
    oh my god.
  • michelle · 3 months ago
    Who cares??????? God, what is this, high school?

    Mashable, shame on you. I expected better from you, and when I clicked on the link, I thought this story was a legitimate how-to...not a literal "ZOMG check this out hur hur!".
  • funkeemunkeemel · 3 months ago
    Ohhh I so think it was a guniune error... My uncle does it all the time; he means to write on someones wall but instead he writes in his update status. I try to corrtect him and all he say is "oh I dont care"...
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  • Katy · 3 months ago
    Fake or not, it gives a whole new meaning to "Poke Tracy" :)
  • Wkid · 3 months ago
    Why blur her name and not her friends as this makes her easy to find
  • snipergirl · 3 months ago
    1) clearly fake
    2) wtf is @mashable posting this trash?!
  • PowerEssence · 3 months ago
    Love cave! Who cares if it's real or fake - That's priceless!
  • raymond · 3 months ago
    Priceless? I take it you quit having sex with a real person sometime back.
  • spike · 3 months ago
    dat be nice spending time out in dat luv cave just chain me to your ancle yeahhhhh!!!!
  • Michael Holmes · 3 months ago
    Wow!!!

    I'm over here cracking up!!!
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  • michaeldurwin · 3 months ago
    Real, fake or prank, it's awesome!
  • kzle · 3 months ago
    that is some funny shit. I did the same thing when I first started using FaceBook... except it was a link for a video, and not a recap of the sexcapades from the night before ;) I don't even really use FB anymore. I think it's a pain in the ass, and so is Myspace.
  • Rob · 3 months ago
    Just truly sad that Pete is stupid enough to re-post this stuff. Not only are you giving the 13 year old teens who posted the pictures their 15 minutes of fame but you are also dragging these poor people through more crap. Epic fail.
  • John Cooper · 3 months ago
    i don't know why someone should really care about that...
  • Alexander Bickov · 3 months ago
    hehe, funny
  • LairBob · 3 months ago
    Yeah...I know this is technically a "news event" in the social space, but to me, this isn't at all why I gave Mashable the right to post items into my FB/Twitter/RSS streams, etc.

    If I want schadenfreude on my lunch break, I'll just look at TwitScoop -- you guys, I look to for an intelligent perspective.
  • LairBob · 3 months ago
    Yeah...I know this is technically a "news event" in the social space, but to me, this isn't at all why I gave Mashable the right to post items into my FB/Twitter/RSS streams, etc.

    If I want schadenfreude on my lunch break, I'll just look at TwitScoop -- you guys, I look to for an intelligent perspective.
  • Patrick Hermann · 3 months ago
    If this were REAL, I feel sorry for her friends because we can see her friends' names clearly xDDD
  • Anon · 3 months ago
    It got this far? lol, credit where credit's due, though.

    That shit was SO cash. Though that wasn't the best screen.
  • Valerie H. DeCurtis · 3 months ago
    have humm... screwed up myself trying to fb on my iphone :-)
  • Name · 3 months ago
    She's "engaged" yet none of her friends care.
  • Name · 3 months ago
    Wow, well there are lots of things learned from this.......
    BEFORE YOU GET LAID, ASK FOR A PHONE NUMBER! LOL
  • Shades · 3 months ago
    Any of you who think it's real, you're IDIOTS... this is OBVIOUSLY fake, come on, who the "F" talks like that... "love cave between her legs"??? are you kidding me?

    You KNOW just on that verbiage alone it's a fake, and if you don't, you're an IDIOT!
  • Ari · 3 months ago
    It's a fake. Look messages times: the message il "58 minutes ago", the "please help me to delete it" 59 minutes ago"
  • David · 3 months ago
    It is pretty funny. It gave me a good laugh.
  • Arijit Das · 3 months ago
    I think, It is absolutely the real one!!!
  • si · 3 months ago
    its FAKE !! anyone who dont know how to delete a post is a complete dumbass & shouldnt even be on FB...this is obviously someone out for revenge . perhaps a dumped lover or someone jealous !! what a LOSER lol
  • Name · 3 months ago
    Her name is Tracy T. Brookes.
    Different photo next to her name.
    It was easy to find.
  • Name · 3 months ago
    I like the "Poke Tracy" option below her photo.
  • coachy · 3 months ago
    u can share that pussy with me anytime
  • RW · 3 months ago
    Of course its a fake. How do you post the "sex message" that shows written 58 minutes earlier, but then her first reply "Oh No!" was written 59 minutes ago.
  • myrna reyes tamayo · 3 months ago
    maybe its fake but fakeness depends on how the reader decide and interpret the entire topics...
  • romaine · 3 months ago
    Ppl are so gullible and revel in other ppl misfortunes. Just bear in mind that what happens to me could also happen to YOU!!
  • Flaca · 2 months ago
    Check out her status: engaged! I don't think it's with this Michael guy... jaja
  • babylakes · 2 months ago
    awesome find!

    I found this great series of pictures of a prom trip being busted by the police for alcohol. cell phone cameras caught it all.. Lovely dresses, too bad everything had to be poured out. Embarrassing forever! http://tinyurl.com/fbfunny
  • jeanne wall · 2 months ago
    tiffany b wall rockwell n c how can you say you are a christian and act the way you do ?your mama and daddy cant have raised like you act. you are a pure dam LAZY HOUSE KEEPER AND BIGGEST BITCH EVER WAS .I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT CHRISTOPHER CAN STAND TO LOOK AT YOU MUCH LESS TOUCH YOU. WONDER WHAT YOUR PREACHER WOULD SAY IF HE SAW THE VIDEOS THAT I HAVE SEEN .? YOU ARE SICKENING. YOU ARE NOT WHAT YOU THINK YOU ARE. GOD HELP YOU AND YOU ARE THE ONE WHO NEEDS THE PRAYERS. I AM GLAD I DONT HAVE A FRIEND LIKE YOU.YOU HAVE NO CLASS . JUST A WANA BTHATS ALL YOU ARE NOTHING IN MY BOOK HA ha !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!