Who the Hell is Pablo Banila?
If you have a friendster or a multiply account, chances are you’ve heard of his name or at least saw his picture. This is Pablo Banila. If you’re the type who regularly checks the views of your social networking account then there is a great chance that you’ve visited his official site: pablobanila.com
But the story didn’t stop there. Apparently, people aren’t happy. He has “stalked,” “freaked out,” and needless to say annoyed a lot of people. He has viewed at least 3 of my social networking accounts, including those of the people I know. How does he do it? My guess is that he’s using software to do that. As you may have guessed, we are talking about hundreds or even thousands of accounts here. But I think the more important question is: why is he doing that?
I honestly don’t know. In fact I don’t care at all, not until this guy reached one of Inquirer’s blogs.
Yes, yes, he’s viewing girls, boys, single, married, and every viewable account. He even sends messages and friend invites the profile he views, whether you accept it or not, whether you reply to his message or not is of course a different story.
His website is features his rather strange views in this world. His home page title says “YES, PABLO BANILA HAS A CRUSH ON YOU HAHAHA!!! THAT’S WHY HE VIEWED YOUR HOMEPAGE CUTENUN.” Whatever that means.
In his site you will find mix reactions. Most of them question his sanity and purpose for launching a yet to be proven viral campaign. As to the purpose of the campaign, we don’t know yet. If he simply wants to get popular or gain visitors to his site, then he is clearly doing a very good job.
He put the video below on YouTube and the 222k views and counting will of course intrigue you (of course he can use a software to achieve that view count).
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrhhf5ioQF0
Now, is his real name is Pablo Banila? The whois record of his website reveals this:
Registrant:
Paolo Bantolo
31584 Pompei Ln
Winchester, California 92596
United StatesDomain Name: PABLOBANILA.COM
Created on: 11-Jul-08
Expires on: 12-Jul-09
Last Updated on: 11-Jul-08Administrative Contact:
Bantolo, Paolo
31584 Pompei Ln
Winchester, California 92596
United States
9515439653Technical Contact:
Bantolo, Paolo
31584 Pompei Ln
Winchester, California 92596
United States
9515439653Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.WORDPRESS.COM
NS2.WORDPRESS.COM
So is his real name Pablo Banila or Paolo Bantolo? Does any of you know this guy in real life? Is he fast becoming the next Moymoy Palaboy? Should we feature him on TV? And lastly, did I waste my bandwidth and storage space blogging about him?
This Philippine News entitled Who the Hell is Pablo Banila? and is labeled with the following Tags: friendster, marketing, matt harding, mutiply, pablo banila, paolo bantolo, virtal and was published on Nov 4, 2008 in Headline, Philippine News
On Nov 4, 2008, Geisha said:
ang taray ng bagong site! panalo! pasok sa banga!
keep it up
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On Nov 5, 2008, Marlene said:
agree ako kay Geisha…
shoot sa banga…
ahehe…
talagang bonggang-bonggang imbestigasyon ang ginawa mo kay kuya Paolo ah…
^_^v
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On Nov 5, 2008, Sophia said:
scary guy huh? ipasok siya sa banga! hahaha!
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On Nov 6, 2008, danielle said:
i agree too!
mukha naman cya harmless..
un nga lang laging pinuputakte ng bad words ang mga sentences nya,,.
ahehehe!
=)
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On Nov 9, 2008, apriL said:
lolz… i dnt know him till i read ur post…
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On Nov 17, 2008, Stickymsgs said:
He is violating privacy of users, surely friendster and mulitply are aware of this. I can’t wait to see an arrest and see the look on his face thinking it was funny. Harmless yes, violating privacy and company usage rights in the US…priceless. For everything else there’s deportation.
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On Nov 19, 2008, astek21 said:
“Stickymsgs said:
“He is violating privacy of users…”
How is he violating privacy? He’s not hacking anybody’s site. He’s just viewing them.
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On Nov 19, 2008, Pablo Banila said:
A Terms of Service violation over a non-profit individual will cost them millions of dollars to bring to a court hearing. Nevertheless, Pablo Banila is a legal tightrope cutthroat artist, walking the loopholes of various systems, using their own laws against them. Said companies will go bankrupt before a verdict can be passed down. Millions of other individuals will copy Pablo Banila’s viewing activity and render the viewing history function useless and detrimental to the companies. Ultimately, Pablo Banila will simply get all the attention he wanted in the first place, and has an 85% chance of successfully defending himself on any lawsuit considering the drastic conversion of his haters into fans since the publication of his explanations in Inquirer.
You will be surprised how small the number of people who still feel that they were harassed by Pablo Banila. Most of my remaining critics today have only read about my notoriety, and had never had a first-hand experience with my activity. Their skepticism is starting to smell like envy (;
~Pablo Banila
P.S. BTW, it’s awesome how you can decipher one’s IP address through one’s gravatar d:
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On Dec 14, 2008, Unknown said:
All I know is he’s good. He’s an intelligent guy.
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On Dec 17, 2008, karen said:
he also viewed my friendster.i don’t know who he is and he keeps on doing that.i make my profile private.im so annoyed actually..
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On Dec 18, 2008, 'airen' said:
‘an annoying freak i may say. he’s creepy!
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On Dec 18, 2008, Mrs. Banila28 said:
hahaha.. ndi nyo lang tlga xa naiintndihan..
4 me.. he is a LEGEND. :]
BTW. nice info.. kumpleto tlga aa.. hahaha..
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On Jan 1, 2009, ark said:
Wow creepy! I thought lalabas siya dun sa video, hehe..
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Kim Tyrone Reply:
January 1st, 2009 at 8:48 pm
hehe parang halloween ba?
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On Mar 12, 2009, miSs bANiLa :) said:
woW! yOu reaLLy hAd mY hUsbAnDs IP aDdrEsS.. iMprEsSivE
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