The NYT quotes from Askme

September 6, 2006 10:50 PM

“So I snooped through his computer and found e-mails confirming that he’d dated and slept with at least one other girl”
posted by ottereroticist to MetaFilter-Related at 10:50 PM (24 comments total)

uh, and?
posted by keswick at 10:51 PM on September 6, 2006

Hey, the NYT is snooping on us!
posted by ottereroticist at 10:51 PM on September 6, 2006

The original question, for what it's worth.
posted by Espy Gillespie at 10:53 PM on September 6, 2006

The quoted text cites Askme, which the article links, keswick. I think it's just saying check it out, the New York Times namechecked Askme.
posted by nanojath at 11:02 PM on September 6, 2006

Precisamente, nanojath, y grazie.
posted by ottereroticist at 11:11 PM on September 6, 2006

And even though we're not supposed to get excited when mainstream media notices the internet, it is pretty wild. I mean, the NYT never mentions me and I've been calling them like 6 times a day.
posted by nanojath at 11:21 PM on September 6, 2006

So why is the article in the Fashion & Style section?
posted by geekyguy at 1:23 AM on September 7, 2006

Because we're victims.
posted by gsb at 2:02 AM on September 7, 2006

Nerds have sex lives. Film at 11.
posted by bardic at 4:49 AM on September 7, 2006

Some of the advice in the original question is a little ...... off

I believe the usual advice is to be gone when he returns, and take any CDs of his that you like.

You're also allowed to break one thing of his that you know he likes, with a value of less than $100.

Steal and break his stuff? If it was a girl who had done the cheating I doubt other mefi's would be yelling to burn her bed and steal her jewellery.

Just sayin'.
posted by lemonfridge at 5:10 AM on September 7, 2006

In interviews and on blogs across the Web, people report that they snoop and spy on others — friends, family, colleagues — unencumbered by anxiety or guilt.

That seems blatantly untrue.
posted by croutonsupafreak at 6:35 AM on September 7, 2006

“For this latest generation, there’s an obscure line between lawful behavior and ethical behavior,” Mr. Hong said.

"Latest generation"? Are you all teeny boppers here? I was under the impression that there were some grown ups in this mix.
posted by croutonsupafreak at 6:37 AM on September 7, 2006

"I was under the impression that there were some grown ups in this mix."

There are, but our line between lawful and ethical isn't so obscure.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:47 AM on September 7, 2006

“For this latest generation, there’s an obscure line between lawful behavior and ethical behavior,” Mr. Hong said.

Can't understand why, the goverment has been setting such a good example.
posted by Mitheral at 6:51 AM on September 7, 2006

I changed the link to one not requiring login. That article is a little on the dumb side. Also, flagging comments in that thread from three months ago isn't really going to do anything, I'm not sure why some folks are doing that today.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 7:39 AM on September 7, 2006 [1 favorite]

So why is the article in the Fashion & Style section?

They ditched Circuits in favor of a second Style section each week, because you know, there's too much MSM technology reporting and not enough fashion.

They split some of the technology/electronics/web related issues that were in Circuits between Business (e.g. David Pogue) and Styles (e.g. Michelle Slatella), and a few things that would have gone in Circuits also end up in the Tuesday Science section.
posted by Quinbus Flestrin at 8:15 AM on September 7, 2006

Until the NYT quotes me, they don't really have anything to say that I want to hear.
posted by Astro Zombie at 11:25 AM on September 7, 2006

Now many people use Google Earth (earth.google.com) to see satellite images of a colleague’s home, even the car parked in the driveway.

???
posted by owhydididoit at 11:34 AM on September 7, 2006

I'm amazed how many people think those images are real-time...
posted by Karmakaze at 11:56 AM on September 7, 2006

When Astro Zombie gets quoted in the NYT, there damn well better be a MeTa about it.
posted by graventy at 12:09 PM on September 7, 2006

jessamyn writes "I changed the link to one not requiring login."

Thanks. I wonder why they didn't link to the actual thread rather than the Ask main page?
posted by Mitheral at 12:42 PM on September 7, 2006

Some of this seems to me to be the internet equivalent of peeking through the blinds when you hear the neighbor's car.
This whole illusion-of-privacy while in a room full of three billion people is taking some getting used to.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 2:52 PM on September 7, 2006

That article is a little on the dumb side.

Well, yeah, it's in the NYT Style section. If I cared more I'd look them up again, but I've seen a handful of online pieces recently making fun of the lameness of the "trends" the NYT Style section has found worthy of coverage lately.
posted by mediareport at 8:34 PM on September 7, 2006

The mom in that pic is kinda hot in a strange way.
posted by jonmc at 6:25 AM on September 8, 2006