I've been helping Jason find a Coachella ticket on craigslist for a couple weeks now, and as it gets closer to the festival, there are more and more scam artists on craigslist trying to screw over music fans. Some of my favorite shady excuses:
1. "I cancelled my paypal last year"
2. "I share a paypal account with my husband and we are having some problems right now"
3. "I moved to the UK for work and cancelled my paypal account at the same time"
4. "I live in Dallas, send me half now on an H&R Block card and half later"
So how do I know all these people are shady - other than their lack of creativity when coming up with an excuse? When you Google their names and their email addresses you get back ZERO results. Yes, zero. You're telling me someone who went out of their way to get tickets to COACHELLA doesn't have a Facebook account? Ok, so maybe you are anti-social and Facebook is too mainstream for you and you were only planning on going to Coachella so you could rave around in the Sahara tent or be a square bear all weekend. But, you would still have SOME sort of online identity. I'm telling you, these zero online identity people just can't be trusted.
Do a quick test, Google the names of your best friends, girlfriend, boyfriend...if there isn't anything about them online outside of Facebook, dump them or un-best friend them ASAP.
Because seriously, that's a problem. I'd rather know someone with a BAD online identity than ZERO online identity. Sure, it may be that you video tape yourself in the bathroom and you're a mouth breathing high stepper, but that gives me some piece of mind. Very little, but some.
Don't worry though, the fact that you're reading this means that you have some sort of online presence, but if you find out the people you're close with don't, it's time to reevaluate your life.
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