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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