Friday, March 2, 2007
13 Most Embarrassing Web Moments
As we all know the Internet isn't the safest place to hide secrets. It actually isn't safe at all, and unfortunately many people have to face the damage caused by embarrassing moments due to the ease of web posting. In this article it listed some of the top moments caught on the web. The article mentioned AOL's mistake of posting 658,000 users search records, and as a result they were sued. CNN was quick to pull access to pre-written obituaries of several famous people including Dick Cheney, Fidel Castro, and Nelson Mandela. For everyone that still thinks it is safe to send e-mails with no backfire, a British man had his lawyer send an e-mail to his secretary telling her she had to pay him for spilling ketchup on his pants and she decided to publicly humiliate him and reveal what he had done (he resigned, of course not b/c of the incident). The article lists several other incidents, but it just goes to prove the point that we all sometimes forget-NOTHING is safe on the Internet. So just remember next time you want to post something on your homepage, myspace, or facebook...it could come back to haunt you.
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Isn't that the truth? It amazes me the amount of information and material some people post on the Internet. Especially, on social networks such has Facebook and MySpace. Some of the pictures and comments I have seen on peoples pages are X-rated. I don't understand why people continue to post such discriminating content; but maybe they need something humiliating to happen to them until they learn their lesson. The Internet has done a lot of good and bad for our society, depending on who you ask. However, one thing is for certain, nothing at all is safe on the Internet; yet some people fail to realize this simple fact.
I agree about it not being safe to post things on-line. I'm probably one of the only people I know without facebook! A really interesting site that a friend recently showed me is called postsecret. It is a blog updated every week and posts peoples secrets. You should check it out. postsecret.blogspot.com
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