Myspace - problems with copycat profiles & obsession with blogs

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Hi,

If anyone can give advice its much appreciated.
I have a cousin who is 20 but does have a learning disability which makes her mentally a lot younger.
She is obsessed with actor Elijah Wood and this has recently taken a bad turn as she thinks she has found his genuine myspace page (wood_would ... I am sceptical) she doesn't work and spends all day and all night shut up in a little room on the internet talking to this person.
her mum is also concerned but is going through bad problems of her own right now and I can't really interfere where its not wanted.
does anyone know if this myspace page is genuine? as informing her its not may help.
also any advice on helping my cousin get her life back would be good. the problem is ... she really doesn't want to do anything else. should I just mind my own??
Last Post Apr 9, 2007 9:32 AM by: utinker
utinker
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Re: Myspace - problems with copycat profiles & obsession with blogs

Apr 9, 2007 9:32 AM
By reading your last message, I believe we can assume without much doubt that this is not the real Elijah Wood. I hope your cousin can see her way into finding a more productive use of her infatuation of Elijah. It is fun to have these infatuations until they become disturbing. I wish you luck, and I will let you know when my information comes in from a few people I have made inquiries about this MySpace page.
Kittycroft
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Apr 7, 2007 11:55 AM
Hi,

I have received a very immature message from the fake Elijah Wood telling me where to go andsaying if I report him he will just open a new page. I have told my cousin and I hope she is not too upset.

This is so sad and I hope other people aren't so easily tricked by others like this online.
Kittycroft
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Apr 6, 2007 3:18 PM
Many many thanks,

I asked my cousin why she was so sure it was Elijah. She said a Myspace friend recieved a personal voice message from him. I said that could be anyone that sounds like him and she responded that he has a distinctive voice that she would know anywhere. I really think I'll have trouble getting through to her. whoever thios person is, they are serious about making believe they are Elijah Wood which is very worrying.
utinker
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Apr 6, 2007 12:29 PM
I will investigate this further to help in your cousin's situation. But one thing you can let her know is that a person of Elijah's status would not have a private page on MySpace. He would have it open for all to see and all his fans to use for communicating with him. I will let you know what I find.
Kittycroft
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Apr 6, 2007 11:40 AM
Hi, thanks for your reply.
The Wood_would profiles url is http://www.myspace.com/ejwood81
but its set to private so I haven't investigated myself and he hasn't replied to a message I sent.
I am really worried about her bet she is quite introverted and won't listen to any advice. She allready knows all the fansites, has every movie and every picture on her wall. She has even met him so I don't think I can transfer her interest anywhere else. She has had this "obsession" since she was about 17.
She is determined that this is Elijahs real page and I was hoping if I could prove it wasn't she would lose interest in it a bit. She is now logging off at 6.30 in the morning!!
There is a chance that she might not give up even if she does realise its not her idol ... just because she's found another fan. If it is the real deal...I have no Idea how he would find that much time to message his fans.
utinker
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Re: Myspace - problems with copycat profiles & obsession with blogs

Apr 6, 2007 9:58 AM
Hello, I have tried to access the page in question on MySpace and it does not seem to exist. I will state though that any obsession with the Internet whether MySpace or just plain chatting can be destructive to one's life. At the very least a very bad distraction. I think a good quest since your cousin is obsessed with Elijah Wood would be to maybe get her more interested in Elijah's Fan Club site and the like. This one seems quite authentic: http://always.ejwsites.net/index.htm I hope you can pull her back into reality. It would be awful to think someone is taking advantage of her love of Elijah Wood, but when it comes to the Internet all are strangers and as most of us were brought up with Stranger Danger, I would think that this person might not have the best of intentions. Please take care and I hope your cousin is careful.
Kittycroft
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Myspace - problems with copycat profiles & obsession with blogs

Apr 6, 2007 5:01 AM
Hi,

If anyone can give advice its much appreciated.
I have a cousin who is 20 but does have a learning disability which makes her mentally a lot younger.
She is obsessed with actor Elijah Wood and this has recently taken a bad turn as she thinks she has found his genuine myspace page (wood_would ... I am sceptical) she doesn't work and spends all day and all night shut up in a little room on the internet talking to this person.
her mum is also concerned but is going through bad problems of her own right now and I can't really interfere where its not wanted.
does anyone know if this myspace page is genuine? as informing her its not may help.
also any advice on helping my cousin get her life back would be good. the problem is ... she really doesn't want to do anything else. should I just mind my own??