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Watched a local author get torn apart online for a 20 year old blog post she wrote in college
I followed the whole thing on Facebook last week, and what struck me was how nobody even tried to read the post in context, they just grabbed a screenshot of two sentences and ran with it, has anyone else noticed people skipping the actual evidence in these cases?
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rosel837d ago
One time my cousin got cancelled for a tweet she sent when she was fifteen and it turned out the account got hacked.
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jamiegreen7d ago
The year was 2012 and this girl wrote a blog post about how she didn't like a local music festival. Someone dug it up last month and acted like she was attacking the whole town. I used to be one of those people who would see a headline and jump to conclusions without reading the article, honestly I was part of the problem. But watching that author's situation taught me that a two sentence screenshot can totally flip everything around. Now I always try to find the original source before I share anything, even if it takes an extra minute because context changes everything.
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Did you ever find out what actually happened to her account? Something similar happened to a buddy of mine back in 2009. Someone got into his Facebook and posted a bunch of crazy stuff about a local politician, and by the time he got it sorted out, he'd already lost a job offer because of it. The worst part was, nobody believed him when he said it wasn't him, and the whole thing just kind of followed him around for years. It's scary how fast something like that can spiral out of control even when you did nothing wrong.
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