The BBC News website has published an analysis I wrote on the tangled web of the Spitzer scandal, the prostitute and social media.
It discusses how young adults such Ashley Alexandra Dupre make it easy for journalists and bloggers to find out intimate details about them by posting deeply personal information on social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook.
The creator of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, summed up the issue when he told the BBC:
Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it’s all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as well.
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Excellent analysis. I cancelled my facebook account a few days ago, actually (for the record, I’m not a sexworker) just because I was sick of the voyeurism. You’d meet someone respectable at a conference and the next thing you know they’re adding you on facebook only to see a profile pics of them doing disgusting things. Some stuff I just don’t want to see, to be honest.
Keep up the great work.
A from Queen’s University