Gawker Stalker Put Celebrities on the Map

Posted by Marshall on March 14, 2006 | Link It

My wife told me about Gawker outing celebrities today - it sounds crazy - like one step too far.  I’m glad someone else agrees with me.  According to Whatsnextblog.com

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If there’s something more empty-headed than celebrity publicists, it just might be Gawker Stalker. Gawker Stalker earned a huge PR hit in the Daily News today. But, hey, if you don’t want people gawking at you, don’t become a celebrity. After all, if people didn’t want to see you, you’d be nobody.

Readers email their celebrity sightings to Gawker, who uses Google maps to pinpoint their location and posts them immediately to the stalker page. One big circle jerk. It gets scary, and dangerous, when celebrities are seen with their kids, and I hope Gawker will not publish photos of the kids.

It’s scary to think that we can use the power of the internet against ourselves; but that’s what this is. 

 



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03/19/06 @ 4:46 am

Pretty scary!



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