Since we heard the news that Tiger Woods crashed his car on Thanksgiving it seems the gossip surrounding his infidelities has taken over the airwaves. However, the first news outlet to break the news about Tiger's affairs was not a newspaper, but instead a celebrity gossip website TMZ.com. TMZ has the same credentials as a blog, using "inside" or anonymous sources as there means for information.
However, this type of new media website allowed for these mistresses to have a forum in which the public could hear their side of the story. Through new media they were able to save text messages and emails and relay them to the public. Unfortunately for Tiger he forgot that things that were written down could always be brought back to light, and in his case destroy him.
I just thought that this was an interesting story to end the year on because it sums up so much of what we have been discussing throughout the year. Many of the problems with social network sites that we have discussed in the inability to retract your statements once you have written them online. Not only can it have an affect on you being hired by a company, but as we have seen with Tiger Woods it can also lead to your demise both in his career and as a public figure.
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