Bear411 Silliness

[bjarvis]

I was in Crate & Barrel yesterday afternoon when co-trailer trash jearbear65oh calls my cell phone.

"Are you near a computer?" he asked.

"Um, nope. But there's some lovely pie plates to my left if you're interested."

"Maybe another time. When you get a chance, go to Bear411 and look up the profile of bear511."

"Why are you on Bear411 at 2:30 in the afternoon on a Saturday? Go outside and get some exercise. Come back to it at 2 AM like everyone else."

"Never mind why I'm on right now. Just go look as soon as you can." *click*

When Jeff and I returned to his place, we looked up the profile in question:
"Bear511 - San francisco | CALIFORNIA | USA
Hi! My Name is Mark. I am a Bottom.
I Can Speak: -English-"

Fine & unexceptional, except the photo is that of my dear husband, kent4str circa 1996. He's a little greyer now than he was then --10 years with me will do that to a person-- but that's him.

I'm so tempted to mess with Mark... "Great photo! Got any more? No? That's a shame, but hey look, I have photos of at our campsite! At our thanksgiving party! At our wedding!"

kent4str is still trying to decide if he's amused, angry or just annoyed. I'm choosing the amused option, but then again, it's not my photo. I wonder if anyone has ever used one of mine. And I wonder what this Mark actually looks like.

Comments

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

on further thought, how about taking out a profile on bear411. call yourself - oh, I dunno, "bear512". use the same photo of Kent, and add a photo that has the two of you in it.

then in the blurb, say does he look familiar? I'm not "bear511" living in san francisco, neither is my name "mark". we live in silver spring, and have sometimes been the object of photo identity theft. But we're a fun couple and... [whatever else you want to say, possibly commenting on bottom-tude, but that may be oversharing in this instance]

leave the quotation marks in.

alternatively, you could ask the "mark" who shares your bed to take you to san francisco - I mean, if he lives there, the least he can do is show you around.

[urbear]

That sounds like fun, but experience has taught me that folks who commit picture theft won't rgive you much satisfaction... he'll almost certainly just delete the profile and vanish. Not much entertainment value there!

I've been doing the online thing for a very long time (> 20 years) and no one has ever impersonated me to my knowledge. Should I be insulted?