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Wanted to share this because this was the first time I came across the term "Attention Whore" in an MSM publication.

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/virtual-unr...ck-us-all/

Quote:A Wonderland for Pathological Liars and Attention Whores

Debbie Swenson was after attention when she created a Type 1 sockpuppet, a fictitious teenage girl named Kaycee Nicole, in 1999. In a blog she called Living Colours, Kaycee described in detail the ups and downs of her battle with leukemia, which attracted a great deal of attention and sympathy.

When Kaycee finally died on May 14, 2001, the outpouring of grief from her online fans was real and palpable. Denizen after denizen of the popular website MetaFilter expressed heartbreak.

As sleuths started picking apart the story, some believers suffered genuine anguish because of the cynicism.