27 Apr 2010

David and Kate

These two people were your everyday average normies. Then one day, David destroyed Kate.

1) This is not a story I made up

2) I promise the ending is worth it.

Here’s some background information.

David Thorne is a popular Australian author. He was once known for attempting to pay a $233 bill with a drawing of a seven-legged spider. Not so successful – but necessary to know. It’s background information.

Then one day Kate decided to throw a party and David made her the most popular girl. Who wouldn’t want that?

Kate made a Facebook event page for her party entitled, “Kate’s Party.” Simple enough. David just wanted Kate’s party to be a hit – a rager if you will – so he tweeted it.

I remembered at this point I was reading this and I slowly started to shake my head. How does David know Kate?! How many people folllow David? What would make him do such a thing?

Kate responded with a:

At this point, her Facebook page had 60,000 guests attending. Pretty sure her “small apartment” wouldn’t be able to contain that large of a crowd.

There was really nothing Kate could do at this point. She only anticipated the guests that she invited, but now all of these random strangers know her address and phone number.

Facebook groups spawned all over – Which turban should I wear to Kate’s”, “I hope there’s more than one toilet in Kate’s apartment”, “Flight QF785 to Kate’s Party”, “Who the hell is Kate” and “That awkward moment when someone wasn’t actually invited to Kate’s party” – one even advertising Jetstar $1 national flights DIRECT to Kate’s Party.

Kate’s Party became the fastest growing PRIVATE PARTY on the internet, yet once the event hit 60,000 attendees, with 180,000 more invited – Facebook canceled the event due to security concerns.


THE BEST PART! Are you ready?

– Kate never existed, David made her up.
– Thorne reportedly said he created the hoax to show how quickly events could go viral through sites like Facebook and Twitter, and the need for extra caution with privacy settings.

Geekosystem writes:

“What, if anything, is the takeaway here, the Big Moral Lesson? For one: It does all seem a little mean. Kate wasn’t a public figure — though now she is, in a sense. Having a Facebook party gummed up is one thing, but it’s another, potentially hurtful thing for dozens of websites about you — much less fake porn — to pop up all over the Internet when you’re just a private citizen who made the mistake of not setting an event to ‘private,’ a common enough mistake.”

Source

So this is a very important lesson we just learned here. It doesn’t matter what it is or who you are, nothing is private on the internet. Your pictures, your videos, they can and sometimes will come up again and they will come up at the least convenient time for you. You won’t even have a warning. Remember that what you do is all your own. There are lasting impressions and people don’t forget. So protect yourself please!

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