I just posted a story over at The Inquisitr about what is either one really screwed up viral campaign for something or there is the possibility that there is one really sick fuck on Twitter.
The Twitter account I refer to goes by the name of dinner_guest and this is just a sample of one of their recent batches of messages on Twitter
This was followed by a discussion with my good friend Sean P. Aune on IM about the fact that this is probably some sort of demented marketing campaign hoping to go viral.
But the more I thought about it the more I began to wonder – what if?
After all one has to consider that most heinous crimes are committed by people with huge egos that if done properly social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook would be ideal ways to feed that ego.
Following that train of thought one would wonder how famous, or infamous, murderers of the past would look upon our new world.
Would Jack the Ripper have used BrightKite and Twitter to announce and geolocate his latest kills?
Would Hitler have tweeted when Poland was invaded or to announce the daily totals of the gas chambers?
Would Jeffery Dahmer have used Facebook to find his victims and posted pictures of his freezer contents?
Like I said – what if?
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I’ve read both your original post over at the Inquisitr, and your follow-up post here, and I agree that second thoughts are in order.
I’m not going to contemplate the “what if” that you mentioned. Instead, let’s look at the “what if” this is just a viral marketing campaign.
In this instance, someone could very well see the tweets, take them at face value, report them to the authorities, report them to Ev and Biz, demand that Twitter be blocked or shut down, demand Ev’s and Biz’s prosecution for aiding and abetting…
…and then it’s revealed that some ad agency is behind the whole thing, ha ha, and the movie will come out on December 25.
In my view, such a series of events does not make for a “brilliant” marketing campaign. “Irresponsible” is more like it, especially if police resources are used to track the “murderer.”
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Well, this just stopped me right in my tracks. Last night we were discussing ethics and proper use of social media and our concerns were of privacy, of companies having too much information.
This is clearly something that needs to be discussed. Even the thought of this being a “joke” turns my stomach, if it’s make-believe we have no context to recognize it as such. If we stand by and do nothing and it proves to not be a marketing stunt. . .
As much as I choose to dwell on the positive examples of humanity, this is something that needs to be brought into the light.
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I believe that whomever dinner_guest is that what they are posting on Twitter is disturbing on so many levels. I can only hope that some marketing genius is not behind that type of conversation with the hopes of gaining some sort of monetary gain in the end.
I love to use social media just as much as most folks however I wonder if in our embracing it if we have thrown caution to the wind. Having come from a law enforcement background I still have a healthy paranoia that reminds me that everyone using social media are not law abiding citizens. There are certainly folks out there that can and will use social media such as Twitter and Brightkite to troll for their victims. We have already heard press about exactly that.
We need to be responsible with our information and be careful about how we share it.
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