dan tynan on Sep 18 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Microsoft, PC World, Privacy, Web 2.0
Michael Hanscom did not pose nude on Flickr, attack the locals with a stick on his trip to Mexico, or dress up like the Fairy Princess while calling in sick. His crime? In October 2003, the Microsoft temp posted photos of Macintosh G5s being unloaded on the Redmond campus to his blog with the [...]
dan tynan on Sep 18 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Facebook, Foolishness, PC World, Privacy, Web 2.0
What’s a Halloween costume cost? For college junior Joshua Lipton, it was two years of his life. In October 2006, the Bryant University student was charged with drunk driving after causing a three-car crash that left one Providence woman in critical condition. Two weeks later he showed up for a Halloween party dressed as [...]
dan tynan on Sep 17 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Foolishness, PC World, Privacy, Web 2.0
Sometimes posting a photo of someone else is enough to get you in trouble. In March 2005 Central High student Eliazar Velasquez snapped shots of principal Elaine Almagno having a smoke on school grounds and posted them to his Web site. He then distributed flyers throughout the Providence-based school, urging students to visit the [...]
dan tynan on Sep 16 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Foolishness, Lists, PC World, Privacy, Web 2.0
What do you do with a drunken pirate? Throw her in the brig–or, if you’re Millersville University, deny her a teaching degree. That’s what happened to Stacey Snyder, a then-27-year-old student teacher who posted a self portrait to her MySpace page under the caption "drunk pirate," even though it was not clear from the [...]
dan tynan on Sep 16 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Da Web, Foolishness, Lists, PC World, Privacy, Web 2.0
British tennis phenoms Naomi Broady and David Rice are no longer feeling the love from the UK’s Lawn Tennis Association. The LTA nixed its sponsorship of the teens in October 2007 after discovering photos of Broady and Rice on social networking site Bebo showing them drunk, getting intimate with condom dispensers in public restrooms, [...]
