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Mortos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-11-07 08:34 AM
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Obama myspace page flipped to Hillary page on the day Obama announces
Edited on Sun Feb-11-07 09:02 AM by Mortos
On my myspace page www.myspace.com/mortos13 I had an Obama for President link and a John Edwards link. For those of you who are unfamiliar with myspace, users create pages and then can invite other users to be a part of their page by requesting them as "friends". I am relatively new and only have a few family members and associates as friends so I added an Obama for president friend and the official John Edwards myspace page.

This morning I logged on and, much to my surprise, my Obama link had been replaced by "Rockers for Hillary".

Does anyone know how this could happen. I assume the creator of the Obama page could change it to whatever they wanted but I think this is a pretty sneaky thing to do and is not going to win many converts.

Anyone can create these pages and I was pretty sure the original Obama link was supporter created and not an official page for the campaign but on the day he announces someone changed it to a Hillary support page.

I wonder if anyone can check it out and find out if there is a mirror for the link from 2 days ago and find out how and when it changed?

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=59966
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Cobalt Violet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-11-07 08:46 AM
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1. I think the creator must have change it.
It's a pretty shifty way to do things. You could ask them. I've tried to add Dennis to mine but he/whoever hasn't added me yet. It's been weeks. I'm thinking of making my own site for Dennis 2008.
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Mortos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-11-07 08:53 AM
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2. Do it and link to the official one
There is nothing like trying to support a politician and not getting "approved" as a friend. Make your own site. Just don't flip it without telling anyone.
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Mortos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-11-07 09:01 AM
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3. I just did a google search for the address of the
Rockers for Hillary page and...ta da it was changed from Obama to Hillary yesterday. I think it is a crappy thing to do. I will be emailing the creator of the site.

old page cached:

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:cgtwwrZHr4IJ:profile.myspace.com/index.cfm%3Ffuseaction%3Duser.viewprofile%26friendid%3D59966+friendid%3D59966&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

New Page:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=59966
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Cobalt Violet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-11-07 09:50 AM
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4. Maybe you could leave a wtf type comment on the page too.
Unless of course they are pre-approving all comments before posting them. That's so shady.

That really good that you were able to catch that with a google check.

People with lots of "friends" probably wouldn't even know. I mostly network with artists and a few issues and I have only a handful of real friends on there. So the more people I add the less likely I would catch something like that.
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