Dutch Girl Fakes a Trip to South East Asia
by Will Jones
GapYear.com
September 9, 2014
Fakebooking taken to a new level on this ‘gap year’ in South East Asia
If you”™ve ever spent a rainy evening thumbing through your Facebook newsfeed glaring with scarcely controllable envy at the seemingly endless torrent of pictures posted by unbearably smug friends who are backpacking through some country with scenes so vibrant you wonder if the saturation setting on your screen is faulty, relax.
It could all be a backpack of lies.
For five weeks Dutch student Zilla van den Born subjected her Facebook friends to the above, claiming to be travelling around South East Asia, when in reality she had never left her home city of Amsterdam. She went to extraordinary lengths to perpetuate the illusion, which was fed to her friends and family alike. The only person who knew the truth was her boyfriend.
During her 42 day “˜break”™ she did all the things you would expect of someone in her position.
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