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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Uh, Oh Tim Tebow


Funny story. My roommate’s cousin is an excellent user of Adobe Photoshop. One day, she decided it would be funny to take an image of her sister and one of Tim Tebow and put them together into one picture, as if they were posing together. She then posted the picture on her Facebook page and it got a lot of attention from her Facebook friends. Even though she had posted the picture only for her friends' entertainment, she found the picture a few days later on various other websites. Someone had gotten a hold of the picture and had placed it on a national website with the title, “Tim Tebow’s Secret Girlfriend.” This girl had only created this picture as a joke for her sister and her friends but when the wrong person got a hold of it, it turned into much more. Now, if you type “Tim Tebow’s secret girlfriend” into Google, this fake picture is the first image that appears. The article that includes this picture mentions that Tim Tebow and this mystery woman have been hiding their relationship for a few months. Because I know the girl involved, I know this information is not true but many people may not. This is a perfect example of how fast and easy it is to spread news and gossip through Social Media, whether it is true or not. This example really makes people think about how many things they may read in the tabloids that are probably not true. Many people believe anything they read on the Internet, especially when it comes to celebrities, but they don’t realize how easy it is for something like this to happen. This joke turned into worldwide known gossip in less than a week; imagine how much information is out there that just started as a joke? If you want to read the article about “Tim Tebow’s Secret Girlfriend”, the link is found below. 


-Sorrell

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