Someone Busted Us on iReport

Well with my birthday, it appears that the iReport service has shown what the service can do, when put into the wrong hands. It seems some moron had the bright idea to post on the site that Apple’s headman Steve Jobs had suffered a massive heart attack. It wasn’t until a few hours later after some people had double checked with Apple, did people realize that Jobs was in fact still okay. After all of the dust had settled from the whole debacle, Apple’s stock price had reached their lowest point in over a year; they are saying that the net losses on this faux story could be up to $21 million.

The person who posted this article, someone with the handle ‘johntw’ needs to be permanently banned from the iReport section of this website. But at the same time, this drives the point home that while the Internet is a collection of instant information; it can also lead to any amount of lascivious jackasses on the Internet that will be willing to post anything just for a lame ego boost. Normally we would just look the other way with this because it would be just some teenager just acting immaturely, but with the CNN brand name attached to this story, people thought that this particular story was legit. This just goes to prove that within all of this people still need to keep their eyes open for those that won’t speak the truth, or those that will play with the truth just for an ego-boost.