{"id":170,"date":"2006-01-23T15:26:59","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T19:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2006\/01\/23\/for-this-assignment-lets-start-with-my"},"modified":"2006-01-23T15:26:59","modified_gmt":"2006-01-23T19:26:59","slug":"for-this-assignment-lets-start-with-myspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2006\/01\/23\/for-this-assignment-lets-start-with-myspace\/","title":{"rendered":"For This Assignment, Let’s Start with Myspace"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It really irks me when I can tell that a reporter entirely bases
\nhis\/her story on a Myspace or Friendster profile.  For instance,
\nthe reporter who drafted this piece<\/a> on a young man who died in a surfing accident this weekend relied a little too much on his myspace page<\/a>. 
\nWith the exception of how he died, it appears that the reporter looked
\nup the dead guy’s name on myspace, called up the current employer that
\nhe listed on his page,  and asked the company’s VP a few questions
\nbased on the profile.  For instance, the dead surfer mentioned on
\nhis page that he lives in “in Mission Bay (south of SOMA), so how does
\nthis article conclude?  With the all important fact, “In October, he moved
\nfrom <\/span>Dolores
\n Street<\/span>
\nto a loft he bought in a brand-new condominium building on <\/span>Bluxome Street<\/span> in the South of Market neighborhood.” 
\nInformation about the length of his employment at time of death and the
\nphoto that accompanied the article also came from his profile. 
\nSo, I’m not sure what this reporter did, other than run the search, and
\nmake a couple of phone calls.<\/p>\n

The other sad thing about this is the distorted view the world would
\nget of any of us based on our web trails if we were to vanish
\ntoday.  I can imagine a reporter reading my profile, then emailing
\none of my law school friends to ask, “She really liked foie gras, huh?”
\nand then punching out a few lines about me being a foodie.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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