Re: follow up on using a false identity

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>
>I am basically left with the impression now that this would not be a good
>idea at all. However for the sake of argument here are a couple of points.
>Don't actors and tv shows and certain products on the market use false
>identities to portray themselves? Actors and Actresses pretend to be any
>number of types of people and we actually believe that this is what they
>are. Actors also are on TV commercials and the people they pretend to be on
>their regular acting jobs (such as a father figure) are then used on the TV
>commercial to portray the idea that the product is ideal because it is being
>promoted by this 'fake' ideal father from the TV show.

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Just because Superman can fly on TV, does not mean that he can fly in real
life and IMHO if you portray yourself on a website as something that you
are not, that website is doomed to crash land sooner or later.

Look at it this way. A website is, in effect, no different from a store in
a strip mall. Misrepresent yourself or your products and you won't be in
business for very long. 

I think you've just answered your own question. Television commercials are
just that...30/60 second grabs with *actors*. It's not a matter of being
"fake"...the actors don't hoodwink you by telling you that they own/run the
business and if they did, I'm sure they'd be sued in a heartbeat.  They are
simply paid to promote the product. 

The website is yours, it's around (hopefully) longer than 30/60 seconds and
can be seen worldwide. You own it, you run it and you promote it. To
pretend to be something that you are not is downright fraudulent.

Kym








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