Reality Goes Out The Window

What’s real and what isn’t? So far as the internet is concerned, it’s a good question. The latest example of fantasy masquerading as reality is lonelygirl15. Ostensibly a teenager keeping a video diary unbeknownst to her parents, she turns out to be the creation of a group of filmmakers. Zephoria, over at Apophenia, has the story. And while she is excited about this and "loves the way people are using all of these new social technologies to create cultural experiments", I am less sanguine and confess to feelings of unease.