FakerBreaker Rates Your Profiles

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FakerBreaker Rates Your Profiles
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FakerBreaker is a recently launched website that aims to sift out the bad profiles from the good, on your favorite social networking sites.

From MySpace to Xanga, FakerBreaker lets you rate someone else's profile to indicate how credible it is. In this sense, FakerBreaker acts like Wikipedia, in that the public can add and modify information regarding someone else. Nothing on FakerBreaker can be changed or deleted, including comments and profiles, as that would signal foul (bot?) behavior. FakerBreaker's rating system is similar to Digg, and you cannot vote on a profile more than once.

I must say, FakerBreaker was too complicated to use for it's purpose. The process of finding a profile on an external site, entering the public URL (which hardly goes smoothly), and indicating their level of fakeness, how you communicated with them, and how long ago you first made contact with them, is long and drawn out. Why move one profile from MySpace to FakerBreaker, only to spend so much more time rating that profile? I'm actually a bit concerned at what privacy issues could arise from FakerBreaker, especially since anyone can add someone else's profile, and information isn't deleted from FakerBreaker.

But for those of you getting random friend requests in your inbox, I suppose you could go to FakerBreaker to see if they've been previously rated, and check their credibility. I just don't see the point.

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