Blogger was Fraud!!!

To believe or not to believe - that is the question?

When reading fashion magazines, we don't normally think we're going to come across a story which will leave us feeling shocked and disgusted, however that's something I recently experienced and felt the need to instantly share.

Glamour magazine has been my longtime favorite to read since I could remember and normally I love it for the inspirational stories it shares with its readers, however within the February issue I found a story so disturbing I immediately wanted to read it and know more. A women called Rebeccah Beushausen, who was a blogger, had blogged and tweeted on social networking site Twitter about how she was carrying a terminally ill baby, whom she had named April Rose, now hearing that the automatic response would be to feel compassion towards the mother, who despite doctors recommedations to terminate the baby decided she would keep it and give birth to the little life growing inside of her, many people did support Beushausen and also sent gifts and said prayers for April Rose. Nothing seemed wrong with this until I read a little further where it went on to say how Beushausen had made up the whole story and how the terminally ill baby was just a figment of her imagination.

The most disturbing part was the picture Beushausen had posted of what was her supposedly ill baby girl, which instead turned out to be of a lifelike doll. Not only this but throughout the 'pregnancy' Beushausen had also posted pictures of her growing belly and ultrasonic pictures to make it look real whereas in truth there was no baby to begin with. To think that a women could do such a despicable act knowing that it would be extremely upsetting to mothers who had been through this for real is simply worrying and shocking.

Social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Blogger are meant to be a way for the public to share information which is relevant and important and not a way for fraudsters to play with human emotions. Could this be something that the management of such networking sites could help prevent or even monitor in the future, maybe.

Its extremely important to know who you are associating yourself with on networking sites, as recently demonstrated by Beushausen's story you don't always know the person and the intentions behind the post and it is easy to get drawn into them. I feel that by publishing this story and making the public aware that people such as Beushausen do exist, Glamour has certainly opened my eyes up to the fact and hopefully it will do the same to many more readers.

To read the full story and also to discover the several other acts that Rebeccah Beushausen had played, see the February issue of Glamour Magazine which is out now.