A week into news about AOL's ginormous data dump and investigators have yet to tire of mining the minds of AOL users. As mirror sites spring up to face server overload as a product of morbid curiosity, the tales, well, inferences mostly, become darker and darker.
first to unearth the identity of an AOL user was quaint - a lonely old Southern belle and a dog that makes no distinction between tree and furniture. Silicon Valley fence postAs you scroll through the thoughts and concerns of other people, it becomes more honest, jarring, and disturbing than a reality showto the point one recalls the morbidity of Sylvia Plath or the sad, lonely torture of Emily Dickinson. And it's difficult to stop scrolling, as you discover the three-month development of an unmarried woman's pregnancy saga: discovering the signs of pregnancy; researching maternity clothes and diet tips; seeking advice about what to do when he doesn't want her to keep it; researching what the Church says about it and the extent of its forgiveness; and finally, clinics in Charlotte. You give them a face, even if they never show it to you. Then you find out somebody else thinks dogs are sexy. Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark Murdok:
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