How to Piss Off the FCC

And other lessons learned running a voip app at

the edges of legality.

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"Since a girl's dormitory mates will
glean evidence of her popularity
from the calls she receives on the
phone, we can suspect that some
girls will arrange for calls to be
made." - Erving Goffman,
The Presentation of Self In Everyday Life"

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• website launched 2006

• created
at Interactive Telecommunications
Program at NYU

• when people call you, you look popular

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 How to be Popular
• put in your phone number

• choose a time and day

• select type of call

• popularity

• excuse

• affirmation
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Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call
You

JennyLC Chowdhury & Cory Forsyth

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Price of Success

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 The Ethics of Pranking

• it’s more fun

• and more trouble

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Heading into the Zone of
Death Threats
Death Threats

zone of mediocrity chart

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Heading into the Zone of
Death Threats
Death Threats

zone of mediocrity chart

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“bitch you beter not ever call my
fuckin people's # again you bitch
ass fuckin ho's. u people have no
fuckin lives an you should all die and
burn in hell. i hope your kids get
shot in the face. oh yea.... your a
bitch”

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 str8killa12@aol.com*

“bitch you beter not ever call my fuckin people's # again you
bitch ass fuckin ho's. u people have no fuckin lives an you
should all die and burn in hell. i hope your kids get shot in the
face. oh yea.... your a bitch”

*email changed slightly to protect young gangsters

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Other Ways to Piss People
Off
•break up their relationship

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 Dr. Charles Dromedary

• resumé

• cover letter

• snooty persona

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 How not to do a phone
interview

• use
your cell phone’s 3-
way call feature

• go into the bathroom

• turn the phone volume

all the way up

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 KROQ and Text Moos

• Kevin & Bean Show on

KROQ

• my phone on vibrate

• friends texting me

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 It’s all fun and games
until somebody calls the
FCC

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 You’ve Been Served.
Now What?
Now What?

• FAA => FCC => Citation

• File Appeal

• Laws from the 80s and 90s will haunt you

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$11k/day!

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 love & popularity
• Thanks:
• JennyLC Chowdhury, cofounder (http://jennylc.com)
• Special thanks to:
• Jenni Wu for the illustrations

• Chrysanthe Tenentes

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