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Social networking sites encourage fake gossip

Celebrities “dying” became true in a sense when several well-known celebrities sacrificed his or her own digital life. They said they would not be resuscitated until their fans donated $1 million. Credit: NYTimes.com

By: Rene Howard-Paez

“I’m not dead b—- get real”. That is verbatim from the Jersey Shore’s Snooki’s recent video post in response to the circulating idea that she was dead. In the span of one day, someone decided to post on Twitter that Snooki had died because of a drug overdose. The idea had a snowball effect and eventually everyone was talking about it, creating the idea Snooki was actually dead.

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