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Real-World Consequences of Social Networking Posts
gbulmash sends in a classic Streisand Effect story of a Chicago landlord suing a tenant over a tweet complaining of mold in her apartment. The landlord claims that the tweet caused $50,000 damage to their reputation. If it didn't, then the fallout from their own ill-advised lawsuit surely will. The woman's Twitter account is now gone (possibly on advice of counsel), but the tweet that started it all lives on. And in a similar vein, reader levicivita notes a firing over a political comment on a Facebook page. "Lee Landor, who had been the deputy press secretary to Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer since May, posted comments on her Facebook page criticizing Mr. Gates [Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr.] and the president, whom she referred to at one point as 'O-dumb-a.' ... The borough president has accepted Ms. Landor's resignation, effective immediately."
First post. posting AC to prevent Real-World Consequences.
This may be true in the abstract sense of a "global audience", but really for the vast, vast majority of posts it would be more correct to imagine yourself standing at a podium in a gigantic stadium ... which has 14 people in it, and the microphone is making that feedback noise while you tap it and say "is this thing on?"
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
Horizon Realty is a piece of shit company who sues everyone without thinking and has moldy apartments.
In other words, the internet is serious bizness.
"O-dumb-a"
Oh, the irony.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
my boss has no idea who Col. Panic is, nor does he know who anonymous coward is, for that matter
Wish somebody had told me that when I was signing up for Slashdot. Had I known I wouldn't have used my real name as my username.
And that was the last Terry Fox run I ever participated in.
It didn't take me long to find your real name either, Ms. An Anonymous Coward. You seem to suffer from multiple personalities from what I can see, and they all have various blogs and websites. You should get that checked out.
You just got troll'd!
Obama is not black.
Obama is mulatto.
Yet instead of using his mixed ethnicity as a catalyst for unity, it is most commonly used as a catalyst for division.
People have it ass backwards.
If you are Mike Beard, 30 yr. old from Canada, then I'd change your myspace page. If not, it sucks to be Mike Beard because he has the same userid on myspace that you have on /.