Peretti is also the guy behind the Rejection Line and other online pranks.
It's important to remember that not all couple-related online pranks are like this.
I wonder if there's an element of everyday sadism in online pranks.
Get caught up in the fun and share some of your own funny online pranks too.
As if to underline the point, last Thursday, federal prosecutors indicted that Matthew Keys, a social-media editor at Reuters, under the same law for helping with an online prank.
On this day, the holiest for online pranksters, today's headlines, R.S.S. feeds and tweet-streams will be flooded with fake press releases, fake news items and prank headlines.
But when Nick Pettigrew, a writer for spoof online newspaper, the Daily Mash, tweeted a prank message saying he needed ABBA to get a university place – and quoting Abba lyrics – some universities didn't get the joke.
Andrea Seabrook of National Public Radio's All Things Considered reported Anonymous was previously known for "technologically sophisticated pranks" such as spamming chat rooms online and "ordering dozens of pizzas for people they don't like".
Saleh is known for orchestrating pranks in his YouTube videos.
