Anatomy of a cross-platform prank

For April Fool’s day, Molly and I (and later, Aaron) played a little prank  over Facebook and twitter, which I will outline for your enjoyment here.

It all started when I woke up with a great idea and texted molly: “Let’s break up over twitter.”

The following conversation ensues:

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Meanwhile, Aaron has his own little prank going on:

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…and he tweets thusly:

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and i reply:

prank8and some playful banter takes place about Aaron and me shacking up, in which Molly gets indignant and I make Milk references, &c.

Over at Facebook, I decide to break up with Molly. Here’s part of  the wall-to-wall. Remember you have to read reverse chrono, that is, bottom to top.

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Meanwhile, we both changed our relationship statuses.

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At this point, we both started getting concerned messages inquiring about our status. The conversation continued:

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Note: I also posted that top post  about social networks((of which I am quite proud)) on twitter.

And then things started getting a little weird. Our prank and Aaron’s merged.

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Not to be outdone, Molly also found a new partner and a new lifestyle:

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But, in the end, things didn’t work out and we decided to give it another go:

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APRIL FOOLS!

  • http://apetcoff.wordpress.com/ Aaron Petcoff

    Yeah, but you totally forgot that I changed my Facebook picture to me with a bloody nose just to get a rise out of people. I broke my own nose for that joke. It’s not fair!

  • http://devolutionary.wordpress.com/ Steve Barman

    I’m glad I snuck in there with my Marx & Engels comment. For the record, they were the two greatest secret lovers ever.

  • http://trash-aesthetics.blogspot.com/ Chick Young

    Clever Odysseus, very clever. However, since I nuked twitter, I wasn’t privy to your social experiment. But, it’s pretty frickin’ sweet. How have you gauged responses???

  • Hilary Ward

    If you are going to try to pass this off as an academic experiment, asswipe, consider familiarizing yourself with ethical guidelines on the use of deception in human subjects research.

    Hilary

  • erik

    Hilary, If you look back at the post, I don’t think you’ll find the words “academic” or “experiment” anywhere. But you will find “prank” and “enjoyment”.