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[recollecters]

Welcome to Retrospec™, the last social media network you will ever need. You are one of the few selected to test this exciting new platform based on our cutting-edge algorithms. Less than two hundred invitations have gone out, and membership is not currently open to the public. However, we hope you will come to see how useful Retrospec™ is, given time. We have for your use a variety of features such as text, voice, video, and image posts. We encourage you to explore our many options. Anyway, now that the copypaste part is out of the way! Jim here, requesting you guys make your secret meetings a little more exciting. It's not like you're not trying with the whole "let's meet off the network!" dealio, but I have some serious concerns. For one thing, no secret handshakes or phrases? Not even dramatic meeting locations? The trying rating is about half a star if that. And I'm almost bored to tears with the whole back and forth about what's going on. Not bored enough to give you a cheat sheet, but still. I can't get myself taken off surveillance duty, so at least try to make it a little more exciting! You guys might like this wikihow. Later! Jim Halloway Research & Development Retrspec Incorporated Please feel free to use this post as a network mingle. Every toplevel can be considered a new post, and threadjacking is permitted. No NPC response will be given. Usernames are the character's full real AU names, not aliases or chosen nicknames or usernames, and seemed to have filled themselves in; nothing characters do can change or obscure their names currently. Characters who have been in game for more than one month will find they can change their profile pictures; newcomers are locked into their first choice. At various points throughout the day users will be sent images of themselves from behind, regardless of where they are. There doesn't seem to be any way to catch whoever might be taking and sending these, however, especially since being alone in a room doesn't seem to be a deterrent.

Comments

[zerotohiro]

Okay but...how would you know if a secret phrase was a secret phrase if nobody told you it was a secret in the first place?

And can somebody explain who the heck Jim is because if he was really part of their R&D department he'd get a better camera...

[impulsives]

Don't know, slightly care a bit tho since they just outright busted into our phones like that.

makes you kind of wonder if anything is ever secure.

[zerotohiro]

Yeah that's kinda what my problem is? If somebody's hacking my phone I'd really like to know about it a lot sooner than "by the way here's a picture of the back of your head while you're probably doing something weird."

If they can download an app to our phones and we can't get rid of it...I don't know. Think it'd be hard to track down a signal back?

[impulsives]

I'm not a software engineer, but if we can just get the IP address of wherever they're sending this thing from, it'd be a good start.

tho i have a feeling a traceback won't be that easy if they can just prevent us from uninstalling it.

[notyourutopian]

Jim is the useless bloody asshole who spies on us and makes horrible videos about dancing fruit for a woman I am desperately hoping rejected him.

[Breath Eleanor.]

And if someone has to tell you what the secret phrase is, you clearly aren't supposed to know the secret phrase. Hehe.

[zerotohiro]

Great, even more bad videos on the internet. That's exactly what we needed.

I'm just saying, if this whole "Retrospec" thing really is part of some secret club then maybe he's onto something. Maybe we came up with a secret phrase without even knowing it.

[notyourutopian]

There will always be room for more bad videos, I think.

Like what? 'Retrospec'?

I can't think of anything else we say that everyone else doesn't, really.

[manolia]

Presumably by repetition. If a certain phrase sticks out enough in frequency, particularly one that doesn't seem relevant to the conversation, you could probably determine it means something else. Of course, if you're smart, you choose a phrase that you can wheel into the conversation.

Every time I see one of my students has caught this particular hell-malware, I die a little more inside. Hi, Hiro. lol

[zerotohiro]

Like the whole "the crow flies at midnight" kind of thing or whatever? Because that definitely sticks out way more than it should, but I think I get it.

Hey, Professor. Does that mean a lot of us actually have this thing?

[manolia]

Ostensibly "less than 200," but it makes you realize how small a big city can be when you keep running into people you know. What's more alarming is that they're expanding their sphere and adding more people, when they haven't even worked out the kinks from the first and second batches. It wasn't how I was taught to do things when I lived the startup life, but eh.

More's at play here than they're saying. It seems sketchy.

[destiny_key]

i already said on my post that its not very secret if you talk about it lol

[zerotohiro]

So we're all really, really bad at keeping secrets the longer we use Retrospec, huh? What else is new.

And what else would people talk about after this anyway?

[destiny_key]

well i mean theres that creepy thing with the pictures

[godcards]

Can't you tell? Jim is a bored employee.

Jury's out on his actual position, however.

[zerotohiro]

Twenty bucks says he's an intern that hacked into their systems. How long has this guy been around? Any idea?

[sharplydressed]

we just know he likes memes
and apparently he gets bored easy
also he's not romantic at all

btw welcome to the club, i am so sorry

[zerotohiro]

So he's just like every other internet user we know...? Next you're going to give me a url to his Tumblr.

This was one club I didn't want to join, dude. How do I revoke my membership?

[heiroglyphs]

Jim is an asshole.
That's all we really know.

[zerotohiro]

That's better than nothing. No point of contact or anything?

[checkoutmyttk]

my theory is jim's real name is garfield

and also he's alien paparazzi. it's the only thing that makes sense

[zerotohiro]

Not a bad theory. You think if we offer him a tray of lasagna and maybe a "I <3 EARTH" t-shirt he'll bug off?

[lingeringwill]

jim is probably going to try to kill us eventually, is what i figure



also can you help me with some statistics homework later its really hard

[zerotohiro]

Thiis just went from zero to sixty without a turn signal, thanks Terra.

[...sigh.]

But sure. I'm at the library but I can wait or I can meet you somewhere else. Is it bad if I think this might be a little more important than homework though?

[injectors]

I would like to know who Jim is, as well. Though his choice in hardware isn't as alarming as the fact none of these pictures seem to be coming from our own devices? Or the ones with cameras that can be accessed remotely, at the very least.

[zerotohiro]

Trying to track down the cameras hasn't been doing much good either from what I can tell, so...where are the pictures even coming from? I can't even find a signal to trace back.