II had everything packed up, cleaned up and ready to go on Sunday only to learn I wouldn't be moving until Thursday.
So I had a few days to kill.
Instead of doing something productive like fixing the many 404s on This Is a Recording or adding the few submissions I've received, I played with my new toy.
Because internet is serious business, someone invented MySpace trackers to log visitors to your MySpace profile. I, too, am guilty of using them and/or the infamous 1x1 pixel bug to log hits to my MySpace profile because I am a shameless stats whore.
There are many different trackzor out there but the best one, IMO, is Profile Snitch. As far as I know, all the MySpace trackers are opt-in. That is, the only way for it to show the profile information corresponding with the hit/IP is if both of you have an account with the same tracker service. BUT, Profile Snitch also has a database shared account-wide. In other words, if I label IP 12.34.56.7 as Joe Blow, not only will I see that appellation in /my/ database, but everyone who has an account will, too. Exploiting this feature is pretty simple.
In your logs there is a link with which you can edit the label.
http://www.profilesnitch.com/label.php?ipaddress=xx.xx.xx.xx Obviously, you just change the IP in the link to label another IP.
While watching episodes of Full House where DJ starves herself so she can fit into a bathing suit for neighbor Kimmie's pool party and another where Jesse, while engaged to Becky, is reunited with an old flame at his 10 year high school reunion, I labeled a bunch (and by a bunch, I mean hundreds) of AOL proxy as myself. I also labeled everyone in my existing log. I used This Is a Recordings logs to label other common proxies (Google, military, etc.). I labeled some Googlebot IPs. When a curious cat would view my page, I'd label their IP as me. And many more I'm forgetting...
Nosy nellies started trickling in. The following are from my web hosts stats because the tracker generates false hits on MySpace's profile views count. In 15 hours: 200 hits, 135 unique visitors (Keep in mind most were shared AOL proxy IPs).
So, I quickly closed the shutters, disallowing anyone in my friends list from contacting me in any way. However, I forgot about MySpace IM. When I logged in later in the day, I found this message waiting for me:
who are you and why do you keep going to my page - it is private for a reason - so fucking back off - freak!
By the way, her profile says she's 46 years old. l0l
I knew what I did would annoy people and might cause them to think I'm one of those scary internet people you hear so much about.
So I edited my profile to let them in on the joke. (Adding this animated gif and music to my profile)
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