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Mobile Alibi Clubs
Wired wrote this up in May, but it's fun reading about it again. Cell phones are usually used to help people keep track of each other and stay in easy contact. But they are also starting to take on quite a different function -- helping users hide their whereabouts, create alibis and generally excuse their bad behavior, reports the LA Daily News. "Cell-phone-based alibi clubs, which have sprung up in the United States, Europe and Asia, allow people to send out mass text messages to thousands of potential collaborators asking for help. When a willing helper responds, the sender and the helper craft a lie, and the helper then calls the victim with the excuse -- not unlike having a friend forge a doctor's note for a teacher in the pre-digital age. In April, Michelle Logan, a 26-year-old San Diego resident who works for an airline. founded the Alibi and Excuse Club, used on the sms.ac site, which charges users for receiving e-mails. Through the site, phone users can sign on to mobile chat rooms to send messages to each other over the Internet or by phone. The European alibi club that inspired Logan, called "mobile lies and alibis," was started in July 2003. It quickly grew to 4,000 members but was shut down late last year by its founder. Related articles: -- SMS alibi and excuse club - A group of 2,000 cell phone owners have formed an "alibi and excuse club," in which one member lies on behalf of another by text messaging or MMS. -- SounderCover - hide behind sound, make it your alibi - A mobile application called Soundercover - for Nokia Series 60 phones - allows a user to add background sounds to phone calls so that they can pretend to be somewhere else -- like caught in traffic or at the dentist. -- -- Sex, Lies and Videophones - New services allow users to fake the background sounds and appearance of their locations - all because interactive media really wants us to be more honest. |
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