Is it my birthday already?
My Facebook Pranks
These are some of the easiest pranks to pull off, but also some of the most effective. People don't realize how much they rely upon the accuracy of Facebook, nor do they realize how easily exploitable it is.
1. Don't be the pussy who sees an open Facebook on someone else's computer and just writes, "likes poop." Instead, write "is a father...?" and upload baby pictures, with a birthday and weight. This is one of my favorites. For bonus points, make sure the baby is interracial, just to stick it to any of their more conservative relatives lurking around Facebook. I once did this and got their old family friends to post encouragement and congratulations. You'll never have more fun with a life-ruining mistake, and the laughs will continue forever.
2. Or change their profile to match someone else's in every single way. This is my go-to for non-male friends, because implying pregnancy on someone's profile is just a little too over-the-line. The key to changing someone's profile to match another is that you have to change everything. Name, profile picture, likes, interests, job description, etc. I got more than halfway through changing someone's profile to match her boyfriend's as she was chatting with him on another computer. They were both confused as fuck.
3. Change your profile to match someone else's. This is absolutely beautiful if done right. This was my April Fool's joke this year. I took a fraternity brother's profile (actually the student government vice-president of our university, so this was even better), and changed every single piece of information on my profile to match his. I reuploaded eleven photos as a buffer for people who were clicking through. I changed every single one of my likes and interests. I change all my job/education info. I even had kochoupink change her name to the name of his girlfriend.
The whole process took about forty-five minutes. After that, people started chatting me about personal matters with him. I used his profile to friend several other members of our student government. I sent messages as him. His girlfriend was even confused, because whereas they hadn't been in a relationship on Facebook before, all of a sudden her news feed was saying they were.
It's unexpectedly excellent. I encourage everyone who's comfortable putting effort into their pranks to try this one.
Other Favorites
1. Fake an injury. Because you have to bite down on those leftover blood capsules from Halloween sometime, right? Pick an opportune moment like the middle of a conversation. (Did this three years ago.) Or just be insensitive to your impressionable younger sister by cutting some bread with a sharp knife and substituting cocktail sauce for blood when you miss your mark. (An April Fool's so many years ago I forget.)
2. Exploit your friend's guilt/fears through use of costumes you have lying around. Did this one a little less than two years. A friend/fraternity brother was having a regular fling with a girl whose boyfriend was in the army (the national guard, we later found out, and he was actually still stationed in the city). We all disapproved, and referred constantly to his fear that "Army Guy" would find him. I happened to have a set of unused fatigues in my closet. So one night after we found a picture of "Army Guy" and realized he looked exactly like someone else we knew. We made sure the offending party became very intoxicated one night, dressed our friend up in the fatigues, and had him start banging on our door. The friend with army girl was terrified.
3. Form a fake business with at least six other friends. Go to restaurants. This is my favorite. My absolute favorite. Noodles and Co., at least at some locations, will provide a free "tasting" of everything on the menu if you call in with enough people and a semi-legitimate excuse. So, while we could easily have done this as a fraternity or, hell, any other group, six of us suited up, came up with a fake business name, called ourselves the "youth advocacy group" for a (major city excluded)-based law firm, and went to our scheduled tasting. We were so full by the end we had to hiss at each other to keep sampling. We explained to other restaurant goers who we were. We talked about everything in vague law-oriented terms and called each other by fake law names (Chuck Lawson, Broderick Anderson, our Jewish accountant, Lewis Weinstein, etc.). Three hours of fantasticness and being so, so full. At the end of the meal we asked when we could call them back to schedule catering for our end-of-the-fiscal-year banquet, and walked out having eaten what we estimated to be about $250 in free food.
4. Fake your own death to collect on life insurance with your family. Continue for six months as drifters before setting up off-the-grid in another city. Hilarious. The IRS will never know what hit them.
I'll remember some more later.
just thinking it's a joke.