Certainly my date of birth is wrong all over the net because I entered
it wrong on a social networking site years ago. Such sources should be
treated with EXTREME skepticism on ALL details.
Andrew Gray wrote:
This may be of interest to some people, given our
occasional habit of
fleshing out articles by raiding the personal sites of subjects:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003211808_fancher20.html
It's a brief report of a discussion at the Seattle Times about the
reliability and ethical appropriateness of using (say) the Myspace
page of a murder victim in reporting on them. Not much content, but
it's good to see people are asking themselves these questions.