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Thursday, August 17, 2006

“The Greatest Character Study in Literary History”

Posted by on August 17 at 10:56 AM

Go here and enter the number 711391 to read the epic portrait of one of 500,000 unlucky AOL users, told in search terms.

(Via The Poor Man Institute .)


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One of the recent search terms shown on the page was "used fleshlight."

Ewwwwww.

i'm still partial to user 927 ;)

for some reason their AnonID doesn't seem to match with the AOL User ID. 927 in all their glory.

how can i be a good witness to an unsaved friend

masturbation with turkey baster

Does the second question answer the first, or cancel it out?

Self-loathing, perverted sex, and religion: this IS the great American novel.

For the love of God, what is on the woman's face??!

>>breast orgasms

huh?

Any chance more than one person is using this AOL id and that accounts for the schizophrenic searches of a pimply overweight Christian woman and someone really into Brokeback Mountain? I've never used AOL; do these numbers identify the email account logged in, or merely the household member paying the bills for multiple screen names?

The uids in the released data were created by AOL to replace AOL usernames. So the data is tied to a username which for many is probably used by all users on an individual computer (i.e. the computer in the living room is used by everyone in the house so the logs, while tied to a specific uid, are representative of the search patterns of the household, not an individual).

Charles, that could be one interesting family...

actually i dont really think it was such a bad idea to release this kind of information. the whole idea was that they would make the data available so that academics could study it. Take that one "interesting" family and multiply it by half a million and maybe they'd be able to get an insight into how "normal" that family probably is. Plus, i mean, its AOL users. Who really cares who they are? lol

Any chance more than one person is using this AOL id and that accounts for the schizophrenic searches of a pimply overweight Christian woman and someone really into Brokeback Mountain? I've never used AOL; do these numbers identify the email account logged in, or merely the household member paying the bills for multiple screen names?

Why would that be contradictory? I'd be willing to bet the biggest fans of Brokeback Mountain are straight women. I mean, they're the one writing all the Kirk/Spock erotic fanfiction, not gay men.

I want these Muthafucking *birds* out of my muthafucking *yard*!

So... That account -- it's being used by a woman who had an affair -- AND her husband? ...who ALSO had an affair...?

711391 should you get counseling if you had an affair 2006-05-09 10
...
711391 should i confront my wife's adultrey partner 2006-05-09 0
...
711391 i cheated on my wife and feel so guilty 2006-05-12 10

Shit this is better than LJDrama.

6396631 is a good one. Actually it's a bit scary, but in a comedic tragedic sort of way:

michigan department of corrections 2006-05-11
would you hire someone with a felony 10 years ago 2006-05-12
michigan restrictions on state background checks 2006-05-12
faa disqualification appeals process 2006-05-12
felony airline employment 2006-05-12
small company looking for coo 2006-05-18
finding an airline executive position 2006-05-18

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