Breaking: Members lie on their MySpace profiles
Posted by Bill Gaffney | October 24th, 2007TechCrunch tells us today that Julia Angwin, a WSJ reporter working on a book about MySpace, has uncovered some dirt about everybody’s first and foremost friend (if you are a MySpace member), Tom Anderson. Apparently, he’s been lying on his profile about his age. According to anonymous sources, he’s 36 or 37. Scandalous!
So, what does this tell us about the credibility of user profiles? Nothing we didn’t already know.
The cloak of anonymity and the veil of the internet empower people to stretch the truth to portray themselves as they want to be seen, not as they actually are. This deceit runs from the casual user to the corporations that run them.
