Creating a fake profile

So after having a taste into the world of fake social networking characters, it was now time to create a fake profile. This person would have more than once social network and we would try and get what they were like across to social network users in a matter of a few days. In a group of four, we controlled what this person would say, do and how they acted. It wasn't set up with a weaver or any account, just us.

We decided to create a person who done, well not very much. Riley Scott was what you would call a 'typical lad' full of himself, lazy, into girls, doesn't work and has many bad habbits. He also has very bad grammer which we worked hard on getting across to show is lack of education.

Profile:
Riley Scott aka Riley da Rapper
Age 21
From Liverpool, Huyton
No job, dole supported
Interests Rapping, girls, smoking, not doing much and himself

One of our group members Tom, played the role of Riley dressing up in pictures to create Rileys look.

We first created a Facebook page for Riley, where he added a few random girls and other people. After a few status' and pictures. random people started to request to be a friend of Rileys, showing people will add anyone on social networks. We accpted them all but no one tried to contact Riley which was disspointing. We decided to create another profile called Missy. Missy played the role of Rileys on and off girlfriend creating banter and jokes across Rileys page showing his personality. One of the other groups profile added Riley and tried to firt with him creating competition between Missy and the other girl.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100003625547036

The next social network we created Riley was a twitter, this was just full of updates of what Riley was doing and some quoted from rappers and stars that he liked. No one contacted Riley yet people did retweet him. He also gained 11 followers that we didnt know of, again mainly girls.
https://twitter.com/#!/rileydarapper

The last social netwrok that we created Riley was a Tumblr account. This was slightly more complicated as it's not very easy at all to gain links with people on Tumblr and we didnt make any at all. Although the Tumblr did put Riley personality acorss very well and shown what he was into I felta s though no one seen this or learnt anything about Riley. We did want Riley to create some raps and perform them on a youtube account but we didn't have time to do this.
http://rileydarapper.tumblr.com/

I throughly enjoyed creating a fake profile which quite shocked me as I didn't like the sound of it at frst. I enjoyed developing a character into somethign which was quite comical to read about. I didn't expect random people to add the profile, especialy girls. This opened my eyes to the young and niave social networkers out there. Riley could have been anyone.