It’s the type of scandal that will become more and more common as online culture pervades. Important person uses everyday social and digital media tools – Twitter, Facebook, smartphone camera and email hookup – to send inappropriate words and images that recipient (who he or she has probably never met in person) then shows to the world.
Give the world’s latest high profile “sexter” – the unfortunately named Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY-9) credit for leading us to believe his social media accounts were hacked for at least a week. Hey, it happens.
As this story breaks, he should also get bonus points for offering up these talking points to one of the women he sent crotch shots to from his Blackberry:
“The key is to have a short, thought out statement that tackles the top line questions and then refer people back to it,” Weiner allegedly wrote. “Have a couple of iterations of: ‘This is silly . . . . And then maybe insert some y’alls in there.”
It’s the y’alls that’ll getcha…every time.
Kathy Drasky regularly writes about online culture. Her marketing and communications work with the ANZA Technology Network, Advance Global Australians and with various Australians and Australian enterprises has led to at least a dozen trips Down Under.
An accomplished digital photographer, her photos have appeared in 7×7 Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle and Google Schmap.
