Comments | cmar_wingnut: Brian Presley vs Melissa Stetten for the lose

cmar_wingnut

Brian Presley vs Melissa Stetten for the lose

Jun 11, 2012 10:03

I'm starting to think the Internet will be the ultimate instrument of humanity's downfall. Or at least Twitter and Facebook. It sure brings out the lunatics. (And here I am posting about it... hmmm.)

( About a week ago Melissa Stetten, a model, sent a series of tweets from a redeye flight from LA to NYC saying she was sitting next to Brian Presley, a working but obscure actor, who was allegedly hitting on her, drinking beer, and telling her he was single. )

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mzdany June 11 2012, 19:13:38 UTC

This is exactly the kind of "mountain out of a mole hill" situation that keeps me away from all of those social network sites. I keep resisting the pressure to sign up for a Facebook account, etc. LJ is still the only place I post comments or make my own postings (and I don't even remember when I did *that* last...)
I wouldn't want to be a celebrity these days, their sparse privacy is shrinking more and more...

cmar_wingnut June 11 2012, 21:41:52 UTC

I agree. Social networking needs to be handled with a huge amount of caution, but unfortunately they're tailored to appeal to kids and teenagers who aren't known for discretion. It really bothers me that Facebook now wants to allow kids under 13 to join. There's just so much potential for mistakes and abuse, and kids both take these things way too seriously when they go wrong and don't fully realize that everything they do on the Internet is recorded forever and often not protected very well. I mean, look at the Clementi case - one person is dead and another is stigmatized for life, and that was a couple of college students old enough to know better.

I have a Facebook account, but I rarely post and never anything very personal. I always go under the assumption that the entire world can see whatever I write. And while I played a couple of the games at first, now I won't sign up for any of the apps/groups/games/petitions etc. since they always want access to my account information.