Get your online real fake teenage girls!

"The drama of lonelygirl15, a beautiful teenage video diarist type on YouTube, is only the most recent soap opera to hit the net," writes Michael Parsons in this week's column. "Much of this debate is concerned with two powerful forces around which virtual culture constantly circulates: authenticity and intimacy. If you wade through the thousands of comments (and much spam) appended to Bree's video diaries, many writers appear to feel they're in direct connection with her. Others angrily accuse her of abusing the YouTube community by presenting fake material as real."

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