Teenage Girl Disappears After Tweeting ‘There Is Someone In My House,’ Social Media Shitstorm Ensues

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 »
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