Culture Jamming Set Into Motion

Part II

We created our separate groups on facebook - me, being the anti-fat people on rail and Jordan pretending to be the person who wants equality. Caitlin made the website which is called Fat Pride; http://horizontalchallenge.blogspot.com/

My facebook group "No Fatties On Light Rail" - http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=100379003358428&ref=ts

Jordan's facebook group "Equality On Gold Coast Light Rail" - http://www.facebook.com/search/flt=1&q=equality&o=69&s=30#!/group.php?gid=133344220045391&ref=search

Now we are going to just keep on adding friends and Caitlin will be posting new posts on the blog to create some discussion either on the blog or facebook in order to get attention and hopefully, create a debate. We will check back on what has been happening on Friday 17th of September to see if there has been any changes or debates.

Update Friday 17th September 2010; Interesting update from my facebook group. Seems as if most of the people who have added the fake person I am on facebook, is indeed from America or Canada.... However, let me add, we have gotten across our message as a few of the people have messaged me about the light rail although they are not in Australia, they are now informed about something that is not even real! Another interesting fact is that an Australian has added himself to my facebook group and therefore he is now informed about the fake reality of "no fatties on the light rail".

Update 24th September 2010; The update so far is nothing new on Caitlin's blog, another person added themselves to my group - although I can't seem to get anyone to start a conversation. Jordan has two Australians on his group, but no conversation there either.

Conclusion

• Is that we did not achieve our goal
• Although we did not achieve our goal, we did still inform four Australians (and perhaps more with the blog) about something completely made up. 
• funny enough something else that come out of it was that we informed Americans on a lie about something in Australia. 
• Our main problem was getting people interested in the groups and to talk about the "fake" issue, however, it was easy to befriend people