I'm with you on that Jill...maybe its a MI culture thing.Originally Posted by SillyJilly
Well... that was interesting but I do know for a FACT that there was an Amber but NO real John. And from the pictures of that baby, the exif data showed that they were taken in April of 2002... so... definatly NOT the "baby". I've written it off long ago now as an immature teenager who was longing for someone to love her and want a family like her sisters (AOL prrof) who all have children and she doens't have any of that. I think she is just really messed in the head for all of it! IMO.
Us Michiganders are so hard-nosed huh?!!Originally Posted by lunasmom
I'm with you on that Jill...maybe its a MI culture thing.
Anyways, yea, sorry but I don't wonder anymore. I also wrote it off as someone that was looking for attention that she probably wasn't getting at home.
She should go into creative writing IMO though. I hate seeing talent like that go to waste. Someone that was able to create 2 believable characters like that should definitely look into character writing (movies, television, etc).
Thanks for sharing the article!
Thanks Heidi. We do appreciate everything the mods did to verify this behind the scenes, and I thought it was all handled well.Originally Posted by valanhb
Although Anne would be the better person to post about this, as part of the Mod Squad I wanted to let you all know how this was handled behind the scenes. Anne was contacted by the reporter expressing an interest in highlighting the John and Amber story for an article on faked internet deaths. After verifying that he was a legitimate reporter, Anne communicated with him via email about how she viewed what happened. Obviously you can tell from the article that she didn't make any conclusions about what was real or fake because there wasn't (and isn't) hard and fast proof that it was or wasn't a hoax. Obviously he had access to all of the public threads on the topic and by Amber and John, so there was a lot of information that he had and chose not to use, i.e. that people had spoken via phone with "Amber", the photos posted, etc. For a newspaper article, he couldn't have possibly included everything...this could be a novel!
One thing that I do want to make sure that you all know is that Anne/we did not disclose anything that was told to us (any of us on staff) via private correspondence. We also did not give out any contact information for anyone on the site, including John/Amber. Privacy concern are and were in the forefront of our minds.
Originally Posted by babyharley
Thats interesting- I wish we all knew the real truth tho.