January 27, 2004

Do I Even Exist?

A certain person who seems to hold this humongous animosity towards me bordering on hatred (despite the fact that we've never even met to my knowledge), is very busy within various blogs and sites spreading all sorts of misinformation about me. Sometimes impersonating me in comments (and being stupid enough to leave footprints), even contacting other bloggers and site administrators with stuff that is just way out there.

The latest he (I believe) has managed to fabricate is that I don't even exist! Apparently this blog is work of a group, we all leave our own comments and link to stories we have planted on other sites, etc.

I really don't know what makes a person go off the deep end like that, after all, many of the regulars and visitors here know me well and in person. Funny how they actually chose one of those same people to contact and make public the fact that I don't exist!!

Why do I bring this up? I truly don't care but just wanted you to be aware, in case you receive similar information.

Since I do not exist, here's a picture of our "group" with Ed Broadbent I found this morning along with a bunch more (I'll post them soon and when appropriate):


Posted by Pedram at January 27, 2004 11:54 PM
Comments

this is actualy more comon that you may have noticed. it is in fact so popular in persian blogs that in more than half of the ones i read randomly, they seem to have a post related to being hacked, or warning their friends about commnets left by a hater and so on. i guess it is the price of ... um ... fame would you call it? reminds me of the man who jumped over madonna's fence because he was convinced they were supposed to be married ... not that you look anything like madonna judging by your photo, finally making its appearence withOUT any rootoosh poootoosh, but you know what i mean. its great that you are taking it in stride and we will be keeping our eyes peeled for that lawless criminal. :)

keep writing.

Posted by: bargeboo at January 28, 2004 09:30 AM

there are so many of these illogical sick "illegal" things in the emails and weblogs or sites... don't worry, anyone can be a victim of it, but well, the more hardworking (and popular) one you are, the mmore susceptible to these kind of "spams" you gotta expect to be. just calm down. they wanna make you mad, to see your over-reaction, and then laugh at you and smile at what they have done.. and be proud of their stupidity!!!!

Posted by: someone out there at January 28, 2004 09:46 AM

I used to go on Isreali blogs and confront them with hard questions about the palistinian issue. I was accused of being some particular Arab that goes around flaming Isrealis. To prove my existance I posted my real contact info including phone number, now from time to time I recieve hot tempered calls in Hebrew (I think its Hebrew).

Anyway, I believe there is a Pedram.

Posted by: A.H> at January 28, 2004 12:44 PM

Cyberstalking: the other end of the spectrum that includes virtual friends.

Posted by: Jane at January 28, 2004 05:00 PM

At least your name is spelled right. Nice suit, by the way.

Posted by: winterwife at January 28, 2004 06:11 PM

It really doesn't matter if someone else takes a diffrent identity, the weblogs are about random content. I'm sure there is much more about Pedrom and others that visit this log that we will never know. We just have to be aware of that as we read the material.

Posted by: Ali at January 28, 2004 10:08 PM

Pedram, walk on with your head tilted up high, mate...you're doing a great job on your journal.

Posted by: Brendan at January 31, 2004 06:20 AM