A woman in France called the police in to search for a boy she said had gone missing – however, the boy only existed on Facebook. The police found pictures of they boy and his father on Facebook, but no evidence that he was real. Read about it here. Similar to the very entertaining documentary “Catfish”, which is well worth watching.
Catfished
Our imaginary boy is missing
His timeline’s not switched on
His Facebook ‘likes’ have halted
His status updates gone
I’ve called in Missing Persons
To see if they can find him
They say that they are certain
They know where he is hiding
He’s in my mental slipstream
In cortex, stem and cord
A social network daydream
The boy’s lost in my thoughts.
© Mike Hopkins 2014
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