Anyone heard of Jenny, the girl who quit her job via dry erase board? Just a few days ago stories on the Internet went viral about a woman who quit her job as an office assistant, as well as outed her boss for playing too much Farmville and for being a sexist.The story hit a popular site digg.com on August 10, and spread like wildfire to other sites. A day later there were groups on Facebook dedicated to "Dry Erase Board Girl," and a search for her hit the top of Google and Twitter trends. The hoax was the brain child of brothers Leo and John Resig who are owners of theChive.com
Internet hoaxes have proved that people will genuinely believe everything that they read on the Internet. Stories like these go viral, and people take them seriously. It just shows the utter power that the Internet has on society.
Here is a list of the best Internet hoaxes of all time:
5. Celebrity Death Hoaxes
You aren't anyone until you're dead. Over the years since the Internet was popularized there have been many celebrity death hoaxes. These hoaxes have people questioning whether their Hollywood crush is still alive or if they kicked the bucket.
Some of the more recent ones have been with Lindsay Lohan and Bill Cosby through Twitter. Lindsay Lohan's death was confirmed by a fake tweet from a fake Kim Kardashian. She allegedly died from an overdose.
Bill Cosby also got to the point where he had to call on "Larry King Live" to confirm that he was still alive and talk about his Twitter death. It's happened to many celebrities. LA Times posted a slideshow about the celebrity death hoaxes.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-celebrity-death-hoax-pictures,0,2903688.photogallery
4. Donald Trump Tip
Also pulled off by theChive.com owners was a hoax claiming that Donald Trump left a $10,000 tip on an $82 tab. Once the story went around, Donald Trump told people that he wasn't even in LA during that time.
News outlets including Fox News wrote about Trump's generosity. They even had posted pictures of a receipt. Needless to say there were many retractions in regard to this story.
3. Bonzai Kittens
The people at bonzaikitten.com got the world to believe that if 
you put a kitten in a bottle right after it is born, that is is possible to grow a kitten in a bottle. They claimed to give these instructions in order to use the bottled kittens as a form of decoration.
you put a kitten in a bottle right after it is born, that is is possible to grow a kitten in a bottle. They claimed to give these instructions in order to use the bottled kittens as a form of decoration.They had directed that the kittens could still breathe through special drilled holes, and that they could be fed through tubes.
2. Lonelygirl 15
In 2006 a girl started a video blog on YouTube and called herself Lonelygirl 15. She looked like the averag
e American teenager and you would think that the video diary would reflect that and be simply the ramblings of a teenage girl. But the content of her videos started talking about details of a cult that her family was involved in, and eventually her parents "disappeared" while trying to protect her from the cult's secret rituals.
e American teenager and you would think that the video diary would reflect that and be simply the ramblings of a teenage girl. But the content of her videos started talking about details of a cult that her family was involved in, and eventually her parents "disappeared" while trying to protect her from the cult's secret rituals. Once it started to gain more attention and the content got more real, an LA Times reported did some digging and learned that the 16-year-old girl was actually a 19-year-old actress hired by an Internet content studio.
1. Tourist of Death
A few days after 9/11 this photo surfaced of a tourist standing on the World Trade Center, and you could see the airplane about to crash right behind him. It was believed to be real and it was said that the camera containing this photo was found in the debris
s surrounding the towers. The credibility of the photo was taken into question with many contradicting factors. September 11 was a warm, sunny day and in the photo the tourist was fully covered in winter clothes. The aircraft in the hoax photo was a Boeing 757, but the actual plane that took out the World Trade Center was a Boeing 767.
s surrounding the towers. The credibility of the photo was taken into question with many contradicting factors. September 11 was a warm, sunny day and in the photo the tourist was fully covered in winter clothes. The aircraft in the hoax photo was a Boeing 757, but the actual plane that took out the World Trade Center was a Boeing 767.