bzabelOG 2002

On the morning of February 21, 2002, someone from the JW network at Columbia University created an account called bzabel — borrowing the site's own name as a username — and proceeded to have the most compressed eZabel career in the platform's history. Within the first hour, they had posted their AOL Hometown page (hometown.aol.com/specialbeef/) as a journal entry, been warned by iwz to stop spamming, apologized, been warned again, apologized again, fired off messages to mandie and tpham and g.f.s.rocks, and introduced themselves in their own journal comments as someone who "just want to make buddies!" magnum welcomed them with characteristic warmth: "you basically said the same thing in your journal entry, guess what nothings changed. NO BUDDYS FOR YOU!" The next day, bzabel posted one final comment — "I am a skinny brunette with huge knockers!" — and was never heard from again.

eZabel Personality Type: ESFP — "The One-Day Wonder." Nine logins. Two comments. Eleven messages. Three journal entries, two of which were deleted for spam. A week of sporadic page views, and then nothing — not a single login after February 28, 2002. bzabel arrived like a firecracker tossed through an open window: loud, brief, and gone before anyone could figure out where it came from. Whoever they were — a college student who heard about eZabel through the grapevine, a curious stranger who picked "bzabel" because it was right there in the URL — they left behind just enough evidence to earn a footnote and not nearly enough to earn a buddy.