Real-World Consequences of Social Networking Posts 451
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."
frist psot (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Welcome to the 21st Century (Score:5, Funny)
Re:it was only a matter of time (Score:5, Funny)
Re:it was only a matter of time (Score:3, Funny)
In other words, the internet is serious bizness.
Re:"In a similar vein"? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, the irony.
Re:it was only a matter of time (Score:4, Funny)
my boss has no idea who Col. Panic is, nor does he know who anonymous coward is, for that matter
Re:Fools! (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:Fools! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:it was only a matter of time (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:it was only a matter of time (Score:3, Funny)
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 /.