We had to create a character using only social networking sights, that would look convincing to others who would view it. This would be a challenge as often enough people see a friend request off somebody whom they have never heard of an decline due to not being entirely convincing, so we needed a back story that people would believe. We created Mark Hepburn, a middle aged writer who was new to the social networking world and spent 90% of his time at home with his laptop. This was a tough task in my opinion because as the weeks went on its hard to put yourself entirely in someone else's shoes, i found myself writing a status but before publishing it, re-typing it 5-6 times using a different vocabulary each time.
The highlight of Mark Hepburn's short life was when we actually had one of our friends exchanging messages with him, talking about everyday things. This was a big confidence boost as we were doing what we set out to do, we were convincing every day people that 'WE' were Mark Hepburn.
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