FSA: Beware of peepul preetending to be cats
I was a bit horryfide tonite to reed this artikul by Christie Keith in SFGATE abowt PEEPUL online hoo pretend to be CATS!!!
Heer's how the artikul starts:
In a sea of the über-hip at Austin's South by Southwest Festival last week, I was talking to SXSW panelist and blogger Liz Henry and mentioned MeowChatters, people who role-play online as their cats.
So did she laugh scornfully and make fun of the crazy cat ladies? She did not. She nodded, her eyes lighting up, and encouraged me to add information about the phenomenon to her wiki on fictional blogging.
Her curiosity made me think back to its beginnings. I first became aware of the existence of MeowChat in the mid-90s, when I was running the Pet Care Forum on America Online, but the exact moment a cat first learned to use a computer is not known.
I'm kidding, of course.MeowChatters are people who create online identities in the names of their cats, and interact on Internet forums and e-mail lists and in chat rooms. The humans behind the cats are a surprising mix, mostly women and a few men. They include college students and retired grandparents, high-tech workers and humane society directors and even a doctor or two -- and, of course, more than a few crazy cat ladies. ... read more
I shur hope nobuddy I know is reely a hyooman preetending to be a cat. I wood feel so VIOLAYTID!
KLIK HEER to leeve comments on Christie Keith's blog.
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ref: SFGate.com: "Your Whole Pet - MeowChat: It's not just for crazy cat ladies", by Christie Keith, Special to SF Gate, March 20, 2007
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We was insensed (whatever that means) at the accusations of this article! First of all, our beans do not telepathically read our minds, we are furry good at dictating directly fer them to type fer us. Any bean who loves cats can talk wif their cats - duh!
Secondly, da author went undercover, pretending to be a cat, to get on da "inside" of this story - thusly, ruining her own credibility, showing SHE is a faker!
Maybe, she is furry jealous that she doesn't have her own cat who blogs. She lacks sensitivity, empathy, creativity, and could possibly use a little therapy herself for not believing in us as REAL!
She probably doesn't believe in Santa or da Easter Bunny either - pffft! Maybe she just needs a good nap or some good nip!
Blogging Cats Unite!
What a dastardly accusation! I know that all of you are real kitties, because I have seen your photos.
Hmmm, I don't blame the beans for wanting to be cats, but I think it is very wrong of them to do a pretend cat blog. I want to assure all of my friends that Pixie is REAL and I am very REAL too. Skeezix, thank you for getting the word out, this is a very very serious issue.
WUT??? peepul pretendin to be catz?
ARE DERE CRAZEE PEEPUL OWT DERE?
i never.
yerz ... jh
We is real Bone Fide cats here! Who would do such an aweful thing???
I'd like to see someperson try and pretend to be me! Youcats would smell them a mile off...
hah! beans tryin' to be kitties? we don't THINK so--we wanna see THEM navigate a full litterbox while the ofurr beans watch them!!!
the meowers--who are all fantastic furry felines, thankyouverymuch!
We are aghast, dismayed and appalled at these accusations!
Prinnie and I are real.
I think that lady has issues... if you know what I mean.... a sicko.
I feel a nap coming on. be back later.
Thank yoo fur bringing this dissturbing trent to owr attenchun, Skeezix.
Karen Jo is rite, if we have fotos on owr blogs than we must be reel!!
Geez louise... some newspapers will print *anything*... and what good does it do? It spreads FUD (not to be confused with FOOD) about whether the cat you've been corresponding with for months is really a cat, or is in reality only a human pretending to be one.
Pablo's right -- we're cats, we have heightened senses, and we can detect a phony a mile away. No need to overreact. Thanks for the info, Skeezix.
Skeezix- Wunce agin yu haf educated us with furry valuable informashun. We don't need colloge- we need yu!
LOKi
Skeezix- Wunce agin yu haf educated us with furry valuable informashun. We don't need colloge- we need yu!
LOKi
Skeezix, I'm with you. I often wonder who the pretenders are. I don't fancy fakers. I don't care much for liars and I'm not one to be manipulated.
Even though I love my Mommy and Daddy and a few other humans, we all know I'm really a cat! I mean is it possible for humans to be so clever, witty and ya know, hysterically funny. I'm so glad that I do my own pictures. If I had to depend on humans for that.....well, let's not even think about that! (chills) I mean, I know you're really a cat, duh!!! Come on, who doesn't?
This is another conspiracy theory (like the ones about Roswell, Marilyn Monroe and Princess Di). Everyone knows humans are not smart enough to write interesting and provocative blogs - you would know instantly if a human was pretending to be a cat. Cat Blogs are stimulating and interesting and one way to prove it is to look at the pictures. You would be able to tell instantly if it was a human dressed up as a cat. FAZ
What a terrybull akyoozayshun. Has she seen these Beans purrtending to be cats. Do they go out and catch and eat mice? Has she seen them out in Strollers?Do they fling theer back leg ofurr theer shoulder when thay want a baff? I fink not!!!
Thank you for that impurtant FSA Skeezix. We know nun of owr blogging frends is beans pretending to be cats cuz, well, we'z just smarter den dem dum ole beans. All yoo blogging cats, we need to put da bitey on any bean we catch trying to pretend der one of us. Da trooly superiur species!
I don't like humans that much...I would think I could sniff one out pretending to be a cat. Huh...I'm sure glad Meowmy doesn't do this!
Latte
I can spot jealously in this article ... And I agree with Kimo and Sabi: Blogging Cats Unite!
DMM
Once again you've proven that you're the "go to" guy and the final authority on everything happening in the cat blogging world, Skeez. Imagine, someone thinking we're not real cats. I'm real, Max is real, Tipper is real and so is Misty!
George
P.S. Mom just finished reading your story in the WATK book, and to quote the great JH, she was "laffin & laffin".
Yes, I agree with Kimo and Sabi -- any bean who loves their kitties can talk with them. And me and my sisters are all most definitely cats, kitties, felines, Ballicai (as our mommy and daddy call us). We aren't hoomans in catsuits. The very idea!
Thanks for getting the word out, Skeezix!
we're shokked an uh-Paul'd. we kin asshure you that we're one hunnerd purrcent feline. go ahed an sniff owr butts if you don't beleef us.
When did a human ever become intelligent enough to impersonate a cat? That really is a ridiculous yarn and I shall pay no attention to it. My humans are far too stupid to engage in such activities - they are oftentimes cooking for me whilst I am updating my blog. I find it highly amusing that any human could even muster the thought! Everyone knows slaves have such tiny idiotic brains they can barely even understand feline instruction.
Bwhahahha! I hope no hyoomans are pretending to be us efur!
well, we is real. howefurr, we haf often fought about creating a blog and pretending to be human. of course, we is much smarter than the humans and people would figure it out quickly that we is really cats.
okay here what we have to say about this they pepole who are "mewo chatters" are real cats too we know becuse we been one of them. Those cats have started out on amenrica on line in the 90's They were then moved to Vin then moved to pet care fourm Mu shue meet his wife of OVER 6 years on this borad. They are the best cats!!!!!!
Lilly Lu
The nerve of some humans! The closest our mom got to pretending to be a cat is when she dressed up as one of us for Halloween. (We had given her permission in advance.) Of course, she didn't fool anyone.
~J&B
Skeez, I showed this to Mom an she's laffin an laffin, but I'm sure she doesn't really unnerstand. We saw a warnin bout hoomans purrtending to be cats on MySpace... Especially, they sed to be careful bout agreein to meet off-line! We nefur herd of this MeowChat, but if Lilly Lu says it's not beans, I belief her.
Oh, I helped Dad bean find his answer: Beat Farmers. Can't do nofing wifout Feline Snoopervision!
I'm 100% real!
Knead On ~
Eh, people who pretend to be cats just can't keep up with those of us who really are...Poseurs are always found out ;)
You know, we cats are so cool and cwever it's no wonder hooomans wish they were us.
But poooh! Pwetend cat bwog??
Pooooh!!!
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