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Airdate: The Internet Ruined my Life

SBS 2 series tells the real-life stories of people whose posts, tweets or status updates brought about the wrong kind of attention.

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Tomorrow night SBS 2 premieres a new series, The Internet Ruined My Life, exploring the dark side of technology.

Ripped from the headlines, each episode tells the real-life stories of people whose posts, tweets or status updates brought about the wrong kind of attention.

From simple hashtags that sparked death threats to profile pictures transformed into hateful memes, this series serves as a warning for those looking to become internet famous.

Thursday, 14 July at 9.35pm on SBS 2.

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  1. … “and all I got was a Macbook Pro with 16GB RAM & 256GB SSD; access to vast swathes of news, current events, and human history; the opportunity to have anything I can design manufactured cheaply overseas and delivered to me for peanuts; the ability to communicate almost instantly with almost anyone from almost every culture on Earth – and this lousy T-shirt drop-shipped from Cafépress by an Etsy seller.”

    Despite the horrible stories, we sometimes forget it’s not all bad 😉

      1. Well, to be fair it’s more often than not “Someone Else’s Disproportionate Over-reaction Cascade Ruined My Life”.

        I mean, I’ve posted some stupid stuff online in my time (see above 😉 ) but nobody’s suggested I should die (recently…), or started a worldwide on-line vendetta of hate against me (ever). Yet I know people online who’ve gotten on some big nasty ****lists for simply tweeting @ the wrong people…

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