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Exactly. Everyone knows that rule #1 when faking an identity is to come up with a name that doesn't sound anything like the person you really are. Some of our current batch of beloved ideologues on this board got that practice down to a science... but I digress, of course.

That's true. Not that many people know that Lou is her middle name, but once you think it's her, it's easy to make the connection. She obviously hadn't considered plausible deniability, and that's dumb for a politician. Most people know that if you want to be incognito, you shouldn't leave breadcrumbs that would reveal your true identity, like using your own middle name and liking yourself.

I think the person I was attempting to hide from noticed my fake account by visiting the pages of people she knows I'm friends with, and since they didn't have their privacy filters set as high as mine, I appeared on their friends lists. A comparison of my friend's friend lists, and it became clear that my fake account was probably me. But I digress, too...
 

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^ dumb for a politician? LOL Dumb for a fifth grader. There were lots better names she could've selected and no one would've been the wiser:

Sarah Lee
Sarah Hills
Sarah the Cheetah
Sarah plain and tall
Que sera sera...:rolleyes:
 

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Honestly, I don't see it as a career ender, since she seemed to have survived that Katie Couric interview unscathed, I think she's made of teflon, but this isn't important in the grand scheme of things anyway.
She, like so many others of her ilk (Beck, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, Coulter, and company), will always have her devoted disciples, who will never allow anything so annoying and trivial as truth and reality dissuade them from blind allegiance to their false ideology and what they want to hear, no matter how nonsensical, stupid, or absurd is the propaganda spoonfed to them. Certain moronic trollish users are clear evidence of that.

But back to the thread title: "Palin has multiple accounts!!" . . . has anyone considered she could actually have multiple personalites? That might explain a few things, like why one of her personalities imagines itself honest and ethical, one imagines itself to be smart, one imagines itself to be religiously pious, one imagines itself qualified to be president, etc.
 
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But back to the thread title: "Palin has multiple accounts!!" . . . has anyone considered she could actually have multiple personalites? That might explain a few things, like why one of her personalities imagines itself honest and ethical, one imagines itself to be smart, one imagines itself to be religiously pious, one imagines itself qualified to be president, etc.
It had been in my mind that she was a multi. That would also help explaiin why she's had moments where she's seemed educated and speaks clearly & delivers an idea in a way which almost makes sense where other times she sounds like my dead aunt Martha who resided in an asylum the final 34 yrs of her life.

Palin having multiple accounts is sad no matter how I look at it. Either she's mentally unstable with 2 or more identities or she has so little self worth & value that she feels it necessary to make things up including friends.


Then again an up side is that if she is handling many identities, sex wth her could be quite interesting. Foreplay with 1, entry with a 2nd, wild sex wth a 3rd, orgasm & ejaculate with a 4th, then fall asleep with a 5th and wake up with a 6th.:smile:, think how much that could help for image building to a sexually inexperienced and shy man, bragging that he was with 6 women in 1 night.
 

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Palin having multiple accounts is sad no matter how I look at it. Either she's mentally unstable with 2 or more identities or she has so little self worth & value that she feels it necessary to make things up including friends.

Oh come on! This is going a bit far! I bet a lot of famous people have multiple accounts: the public one with their real name so that fans can add you, then the one where they can play undisturbed and see the Facebook photos of their cousin's kids without having to wade through 56,000 status updates from their fans every single day.

The difference is that I bet most famous people do a much better job of protecting their identities than Sarah Palin did, but that's all.
 
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Well, I agree with my fellow lefties that Sarah Palin is stupid, I just don't think this was that stupid or that important, but it is damn funny to see the things that she wrote in her emails and on her Facebook, since she got caught. The stupidest thing she did was fail to set her privacy filters as high as possible on her Lou Sarah account and make it so that only friends of friends could find her. Honestly, I don't see it as a career ender, since she seemed to have survived that Katie Couric interview unscathed, I think she's made of teflon, but this isn't important in the grand scheme of things anyway. She wanted to be able to communicate with a handful of people privately, and she would have been able to do it, if Facebook wasn't so stupid about privacy.

Not to be completely pedantic here, but FB isn't the only method for someone in the 21st century to communicate with a small listserve of 12 or so people. I have several means at my disposal, including two separate, Googlebot-proof message boards that are strictly invite-only and otherwise invisible to anyone without permission and a passcode.

One of them, in fact, in response to certain members serving as mods at the HIV-support website it was opened to protest against, has a sort of layered system of visibility where some fora are available only to certain members, much like LPSG, where the Mod forum is invisible to the genpop. The software for these things is simple and widely available, and the costs are minimal. Someone of Palin's means could have a place like that up and running in minutes.

Member-only blogs accomplish much the same thing, and are available via Blogspot or Typepad.

The other, even more obvious way, is simple e-mail. I currently have several members on my confidential listserve with whom I stay in touch via gmail, including some people who live overseas.

This is not an issue of FB privacy (which is another thread topic, for sure), it's more the mark of exactly how lazy and incurious a mind Mrs Palin really does possess. The only other possibility is the kind of hubristic narcissism that truly believes that there is no such thing as negative publicity, but anyone who believes that really should have a chat with Lindsay Lohan.
 

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Not to be completely pedantic here, but FB isn't the only method for someone in the 21st century to communicate with a small listserve of 12 or so people. I have several means at my disposal, including two separate, Googlebot-proof message boards that are strictly invite-only and otherwise invisible to anyone without permission and a passcode.

One of them, in fact, in response to certain members serving as mods at the HIV-support website it was opened to protest against, has a sort of layered system of visibility where some fora are available only to certain members, much like LPSG, where the Mod forum is invisible to the genpop. The software for these things is simple and widely available, and the costs are minimal. Someone of Palin's means could have a place like that up and running in minutes.

Member-only blogs accomplish much the same thing, and are available via Blogspot or Typepad.

The other, even more obvious way, is simple e-mail. I currently have several members on my confidential listserve with whom I stay in touch via gmail, including some people who live overseas.

This is not an issue of FB privacy (which is another thread topic, for sure), it's more the mark of exactly how lazy and incurious a mind Mrs Palin really does possess. The only other possibility is the kind of hubristic narcissism that truly believes that there is no such thing as negative publicity, but anyone who believes that really should have a chat with Lindsay Lohan.

That involves making people go out of their way to include you. How prima donna could a person get? My cousins post photos of their kids on Facebook almost a daily basis so they can share with family and friends, and they update their Facebooks several times a day. I like seeing them and being included in the same conversation with my family members about them. I would be left out if I didn't use Facebook to stay in touch with them. If I asked them to use a totally separate system every day, just so I could be included, don't you think that's asking a bit much? They would smile and say they would, but they wouldn't, except on a blue moon send me a special photo or something, and then I wouldn't know the moment my cousin's baby's fever broke and how relieved she feels about it, or get to make jokes about my cousin's son talking about hot high school girls along with everyone else. If I want to stay in touch and be included, why the hell not just make a fake account and use that one instead of making everyone else go out of their way for me? It's just the internet. No one really cares about fake accounts, especially if all the people you're including under the fake account actually know who you are. It's only weird and creepy if you're pretending to be someone else and friending people. If you say, "Hey, this account is me also," they know it's you and you aren't deceiving any of the people who know you under that account. Then the name you're using is exactly like a username on any other forum where people know your real identity. I seriously doubt that any of the 12 people thought, "You mean that was Sarah Palin?!!!" They already knew her, and that's why it's not deceptive.

I'm not seeing Ms. Palin's ignorance about how to keep a secret identity a secret as anything more than another example of her ignorance. I really think reading more than that into it is unnecessarily biased against her, because this is exactly the kind of thing any other famous person would do, they would just be better at keeping it a secret. And trust me, I really think she's not very smart and completely unfit for office, but I can't be unfair towards her when it doesn't make any sense.
 
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She, like so many others of her ilk (Beck, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, Coulter, and company), will always have her devoted disciples, who will never allow anything so annoying and trivial as truth and reality dissuade them from blind allegiance to their false ideology and what they want to hear, no matter how nonsensical, stupid, or absurd is the propaganda spoonfed to them. Certain moronic trollish users are clear evidence of that.

Perfect.
 

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That involves making people go out of their way to include you. How prima donna could a person get? My cousins post photos of their kids on Facebook almost a daily basis so they can share with family and friends, and they update their Facebooks several times a day. I like seeing them and being included in the same conversation with my family members about them. I would be left out if I didn't use Facebook to stay in touch with them. If I asked them to use a totally separate system every day, just so I could be included, don't you think that's asking a bit much? They would smile and say they would, but they wouldn't, except on a blue moon send me a special photo or something, and then I wouldn't know the moment my cousin's baby's fever broke and how relieved she feels about it, or get to make jokes about my cousin's son talking about hot high school girls along with everyone else. If I want to stay in touch and be included, why the hell not just make a fake account and use that one instead of making everyone else go out of their way for me? It's just the internet. No one really cares about fake accounts, especially if all the people you're including under the fake account actually know who you are. It's only weird and creepy if you're pretending to be someone else and friending people. If you say, "Hey, this account is me also," they know it's you and you aren't deceiving any of the people who know you under that account. Then the name you're using is exactly like a username on any other forum where people know your real identity. I seriously doubt that any of the 12 people thought, "You mean that was Sarah Palin?!!!" They already knew her, and that's why it's not deceptive.

I'm not seeing Ms. Palin's ignorance about how to keep a secret identity a secret as anything more than another example of her ignorance. I really think reading more than that into it is unnecessarily biased against her, because this is exactly the kind of thing any other famous person would do, they would just be better at keeping it a secret. And trust me, I really think she's not very smart and completely unfit for office, but I can't be unfair towards her when it doesn't make any sense.

Actually, both of those invite-only message boards were set up purposefully to hold sensitive information and gossip (and foster a greater sense of viral "family" within their memberships) away from prying eyes and the idly curious. In each of these cases, the accent was primarily in controlling the membership to weed out assorted trolls and engage in frank, adult (though not in the XXX meaning of the word) conversations. Logging on to these MBs is just a few keystrokes away; it's certainly no more involved than signing on to LPSG.

As they were both founded by completely non-famous "nobodies" (except within the very narrow confines of the slightly-larger communities where we'd all found each other in the first place), there's nothing "prima donna" in their having been set up. As the Lou Sarah sockpuppet was set up as a place where family and close friends could interact off the radar screen of the general public (and, with millions of people world-wide who find Mrs Palin compelling, whether in a positive or negative way, that part makes a kind of sense), all I meant is that there truly are much more discrete and genuinely private means at her disposal.

The fact that she chose FB, where she's already so closely followed (and with which she is absolutely so closely identified) tells me that she either doesn't know of other options available to her or, perhaps, that she expected that this "revelation" would eventually make the light of day, which would make her both more reviled by those who dislike her and adored by those who do ("Give the poor woman a break! She just wants so privacy!). It's only doubts as to her ability to strategize coherently that makes me doubt the second idea, frankly.

Though I really only check in on my FB profile about 2-3 times per month, I am not slamming the entire concept per se. Though I last saw them face-to-face 19 years ago, when they were still kids, I have a good, active rapport with several of my dead French lover's nieces and nephews, and treasure the ability to have reconnected. And I know that just the fact that they really do now feel as though they've un oncle américain gives a whole new meaning and texture to their lives (though IMing in French is a chore). It also reassures their parents that UB is still alive and kicking, with pix to prove it, as none of them were happy to see me leave in 1992.

Speaking of pix, my second favorite thing about FB is that fact that, due to my many camera-happy friends and associates (through my work at the bar and other social interactions about town), I am tagged in literally hundreds of photos posted there. I have entire folder the My Pictures section of my computer culled directly from FB, and have used more than one as an avatar here and elsewhere.

I have no gripes with FB in an existential way: like most tools, its pluses and negatives are all in how it is used/abused by its users. I purposefully choose to limit my participation there, as the spamminess of some chick I barely know in HS's multiple status updates is a minor irritant, and the endless "friend" requests from complete strangers makes me just a bit disconcerted as to who these people really are; I have amassed more than my fair share of stalkers over the years.
 

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Actually, both of those invite-only message boards were set up purposefully to hold sensitive information and gossip (and foster a greater sense of viral "family" within their memberships) away from prying eyes and the idly curious. In each of these cases, the accent was primarily in controlling the membership to weed out assorted trolls and engage in frank, adult (though not in the XXX meaning of the word) conversations. Logging on to these MBs is just a few keystrokes away; it's certainly no more involved than signing on to LPSG.

As they were both founded by completely non-famous "nobodies" (except within the very narrow confines of the slightly-larger communities where we'd all found each other in the first place), there's nothing "prima donna" in their having been set up. As the Lou Sarah sockpuppet was set up as a place where family and close friends could interact off the radar screen of the general public (and, with millions of people world-wide who find Mrs Palin compelling, whether in a positive or negative way, that part makes a kind of sense), all I meant is that there truly are much more discrete and genuinely private means at her disposal.

The fact that she chose FB,

Stop right there. Nobody "chooses" Facebook any more. Everyone uses it. Sure, you can refuse to use it, but that just means that you'll lose touch with a lot of people, and most people would rather not.

I think you misunderstood what I meant. I meant that requesting that the people you wish stay in touch with use another system in conjunction with Facebook at the same time would be so prima donna. It would be an outrageous request to expect your own friends and family to stop using Facebook because you're famous, since they will also want to keep up with people other than you on Facebook, so the scenario that you're proposing is that people who want to keep you in the loop need to say everything they're saying on Facebook on a totally separate system, too, just for you. So, one cousin uploads a cute picture of her youngest daughter and puts a cute caption under it, then she has to upload the same photo on another system and put the cute caption under it, just for me. Then my family sees it on Facebook or this other system. Are they expected to make the same comments on both? That's the only way I can converse with them and they can interact with the other people on Facebook, too. It's ridiculous. And that's what I'm talking about is a prima donna request. And that's completely unnecessary and creates too much extra work for all your friends and family, not to mention it's just impractical when it comes down to using it on a daily basis, considering how many people like to upload photos and status updates from their phones, when a person can just use a pseudonym on Facebook instead, thus putting the onus on you to stay in touch with them instead of expecting them to go out of their way to say everything they say on Facebook on another system, too, just for you. Even the most well-meaning friends and family wouldn't go to that much trouble, and a person would be truly narcissistic if she thought that they would.

where she's already so closely followed (and with which she is absolutely so closely identified) tells me that she either doesn't know of other options available to her or, perhaps, that she expected that this "revelation" would eventually make the light of day, which would make her both more reviled by those who dislike her and adored by those who do ("Give the poor woman a break! She just wants so privacy!). It's only doubts as to her ability to strategize coherently that makes me doubt the second idea, frankly.

Okay, wait, I think I'm seeing our disconnect. I think you're assuming she's using it so other people can see her status updates. Oh no, people join Facebook so they can see other people's status updates, because no one is going to update both Facebook and another system every single time. If I wanted to tall all my friends something, I could just use email, but if I want to know what's going on in the people's lives that i care about, I have to be on Facebook to stay in touch. That's just the way it is. Expecting people to update two systems in order to communicate the same things twice, and one of them just for me? That's absurd and asking for too much when there's a simpler and more logical solution: pseudonym.

Her failure to properly use the privacy guards available (as faulty as they are) and to make her profile and wall invisible are evidence of her failure to strategize and her ignorance and further evidence of how unfit she is to lead, but the usage of Facebook under a pseudonym is not, IMO. I am absolutely positive she's just doing the exact same thing as any other famous person.

And believe me, I'm pretty darned shocked that I'm defending anything Palin has ever done. I dislike the woman, but I'm not inherently unfair. I consider the things I dislike her for to be fair judgments and I'm not going to jump on the bandwagon criticizing her for something I don't agree with.

Though I really only check in on my FB profile about 2-3 times per month, I am not slamming the entire concept per se.

Oh, I think perhaps you don't understand how some other people use it then. Because of Facebook, I'm a lot more involved in the lives of my family members. I'm the last one to join (sorry, just remembered an aunt and an uncle joined in the past two weeks! I'm not the last one!), and I regret not joining it earlier. It's brought me so much closer to so many people because now I know what's going on in their daily lives. I honestly don't think I could stay in touch as well if I wasn't on Facebook. If every single person sent me an email instead of making a status update, I'd be pissed off every day that my mailbox was too full and it would prevent discussion among the other people viewing that update. Those little daily interactions are important.

Though I last saw them face-to-face 19 years ago, when they were still kids, I have a good, active rapport with several of my dead French lover's nieces and nephews, and treasure the ability to have reconnected. And I know that just the fact that they really do now feel as though they've un oncle américain gives a whole new meaning and texture to their lives (though IMing in French is a chore). It also reassures their parents that UB is still alive and kicking, with pix to prove it, as none of them were happy to see me leave in 1992.

Speaking of pix, my second favorite thing about FB is that fact that, due to my many camera-happy friends and associates (through my work at the bar and other social interactions about town), I am tagged in literally hundreds of photos posted there. I have entire folder the My Pictures section of my computer culled directly from FB, and have used more than one as an avatar here and elsewhere.

I have no gripes with FB in an existential way: like most tools, its pluses and negatives are all in how it is used/abused by its users.

Oh, I have gripes. So many gripes, but I'm not ready to abandon staying in touch with friends and family because I'm mad at Facebook.

I purposefully choose to limit my participation there, as the spamminess of some chick I barely know in HS's multiple status updates is a minor irritant, and the endless "friend" requests from complete strangers makes me just a bit disconcerted as to who these people really are; I have amassed more than my fair share of stalkers over the years.

And THIS is the reason why I have more than one account, so that I can communicate with the people I actually want to communicate with, not every single person who remembers my name from the time I was 15.
 
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But back to the thread title: "Palin has multiple accounts!!" . . . has anyone considered she could actually have multiple personalites? That might explain a few things, like why one of her personalities imagines itself honest and ethical, one imagines itself to be smart, one imagines itself to be religiously pious, one imagines itself qualified to be president, etc.

One was able to see Russia from her house in Wasilla
 
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But back to the thread title: "Palin has multiple accounts!!" . . . has anyone considered she could actually have multiple personalites? That might explain a few things, like why one of her personalities imagines itself honest and ethical, one imagines itself to be smart, one imagines itself to be religiously pious, one imagines itself qualified to be president, etc.

Oh my dear, sweet, Lord: get out of my head. That is the first thing that came to my mind when I first found out about this story.

A good friend of mine who has a Masters degree in Bioinfomatics did his undergrad thesis on "The Effects of the Internet on the Human Psyche". I've been asked to read a lot of theses (comes with the territory--English majors get the biz when it comes to "please read my thesis please please pleaaaase") but this one was a joy because it was absolutely, unequivocally fascinating. He made a direct correlation between interaction on social websites on the internet and undiagnosed psychological disorders (and had studies done by universities and doctors to back it up). The 'net is rife with schizophrenics, pathological liars and sociopaths and the members of those groups aren't limited to regular Joes and Janes like me. Sometimes they can include your friendly, perfectly-coiffed, neighborhood Mama Grizzly.

This isn't just about creating an account to pat oneself on the back; there is something deeper there. Too bad I don't have boots that are tall enough (or frankly, the energy) to explore just what.