She's not Real Sparky!

You know the girl that added you last night on your favorite social media site? Yes, the one wearing the skimpy dental floss bikini. Or was she wearing the perfect sinful club hopping dress, toasting you with a shot of booze in her hand? That’s the one. One problem however, she ain’t real Sparky.

Oh, the girl in the photos is real alright, but the profile is unadulterated bogus humbug. You gotta ask yourself Sparky, “Why would a woman that could give Miss Alabama 2012 a run for her money add you?” In the real world it’s the other way around, people flock to her.

Bogus profiles have been around since the dawn of the internet. Myspace was the place where it gained momentum like a semi diesel truck hauling dynamite going downhill without brakes. It started off ‘harmless’, it was a way to hack so one guy in Colorado could spam the entire community about getting free ringtones. Then it evolved into the more dangerous ‘free’ webcam scams. You had to supply a credit card number to prove you were over 18, ha! Sadly there are saps born every minute, people fell for it and lost $$$.

One of my favorite waitresses of all-time had a fake profile of her made, several actually. She's a doppelganger for a former Playboy Bunny centerfold, only she was natural. That means she’s 100% silicon free for those of you reading in St. Lucie County, Florida. She didn’t have to go looking for friends, they came to her. Thankfully the website didn’t exercise the Myspace extermination policy by deleting both the psuedo and hers after she complained…repeatedly.

Sad, but it gets worse for you Sparky. You are a superheroine sidekick extraordinaire in the making; you are a prime target for some evil men. The Taliban and al-Qaeda are using bogus social media profiles for intelligence, so keep your big fat mouth shut about what you do for a living or what you do on your free time.

So in ending, it would probably be best for you not to have a social media profile. If you feel the need to create one, use a secondary email account; if it gets hacked, no vital information is compromised. Lastly, you’ll have to go looking for Miss Alabama 2012 and send a friend request, but she already has a sidekick there Sparky.