Like its boring old relative, cable news, there is nothing that gets social media more excited than an imperiled white teenage girl. On Sunday night at around 6:15 p.m., New Jersey 16-year-old Kara Alongi tweeted "There is someone in my hour ecall 911." (sic.) The apparently panic-garbled tweet went viral over night, as millions of Twitter users urged followers to help find the kidnapped girl by tweeting hashtags and liking Facebook pages. There couldn't have been a bigger internet freakout if Joseph Kony himself had spirited Kara away. More »
Teenage Girl Disappears After Tweeting ‘There Is Someone In My House,’ Social Media Shitstorm Ensues
October 1st, 2012
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