The day you can't trust anyone- not even the internet or the media

A few minutes are left on the clock for one of my favorite and most dreaded days of the year, April Fools' Day. I am a prankster, tried and true, but only because I was raised in a household whose mantra was: prank or be pranked.

Ever since I was young, my parents have gone over the top for April Fools' Day. I don't mean your classic toothpaste in Oreos or plastic wrap under the toilet seat types of pranks - they are in a whole other league. Some of the highlights include: 

• Convincing my middle school to create a fraudulent report card with failing grades and remarks such as "Bethany talks too much and is too boy crazy."
• Getting in cohorts with the local police station to steal my car while I was at an evening dance class
• Pretending my dog was lost, and told me I had to go find her. I found her. On our roof.

They're cruel, but they're geniuses. This year my dad started my day with a text that seemed like a white flag of surrender…

But later in the day, it turned out he and my best friend who is currently studying in LA, and interning with Ellen, joined forces to try to convince me he was going to be on the Ellen show. 

However, my parents aren't the only ones I tip my hat to on April Fools' Day. Media venues have a great history of being involved in the holiday. Also corporations create hilarious (and always almost believable) videos or ad campaigns in attempt to trick the masses. 

Here are a few of my favs for 2014, complete lists from Salon and Mashable

• Netflix added two documentaries in which you can watch bacon sizzling or a rotisserie chicken cooking
• Google Maps created a new type of maps in which users can find Pokemon. "Gotta catch them all?" If you do, you can become Google's very own Pokemon Master
• Google+ offers a feature in which David Hasselhoff photobombs your pics
• YouTube claimed to have insights of what video viral trends were going to occur in 2014 (such as clocking and dad kissing)
• Jimmy Kimmel invents a spray on yoga pant
• Twitter announces to users the creation of the "Twitter helmet" a helmet that users can wear and Tweet from (imagine google glass but instead of glasses, a giant bird head)
• TripAdvisor tries to send users to fictional locations, such as Mordor or the Death Star