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Where is Amy Pressman-abuse of human suffering and social media

August 6, 2007 By 7 Comments

Jackie Huba covers another “LonelyGirl15″ kind of thing going on on Church of the Customer:

Posters around Hollywood mention a missing girl named Amy Pressman. Her “cousin” has created a MySpace page asking for help to find Amy, who has not returned from a camping trip. Amy’s own MySpace page has some “ominous” final blog posts. Many of the comments on both pages express grief over her disappearance.

It appears that this is a stunt to build buzz for an upcoming movie. Cute. Not. Look I know movie promotion needs to be “edgy” and stuff. I know that building a kind of strange viral buzz is a goal for many promoters and marketers, but this, this just isn’t right. The problem isn’t that there is a persona being created, or that a MySpace page has been crafted to achieve it. It’s that they are exploiting human misery and sadness. The sadness of a child or loved one gone missing. I’m glad this has been uncovered as a hoax. It sickens me, just sickens me, that someone would think this was a good idea. What about the feelings of millions of parents who’ve children gone missing? What about all the people who are trying to use social media to raise awareness and help find children?

Frankly, the creators of this should be just ashamed. They should take it down and apologize. Any unspent money in the budget left, should go to help find real missing children.

Yes, Jackie, this is creepy.

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  • Michael La Rosa

    Tris Hussey you bring up several valid points that have been mirrored by several other websites. I must however give you a bit of shit for that horrible “Not” joke that you used in your posting; really ridiculous. If you have not figured it out yet, a lot of movies have been fueled with a distasteful and even grotesque marketing plan. I know exactly how many people are stricken with the loss of a person from their family or even a child. It is disgusting. I fully agree with you. However, utilize that journalism skill you learned in Community College and do a little more research. You will discover that she is not a child. How naive people are, you were so eager to voice your opinion and jump on the band wagon that you didn’t even realize what you had done. Who do you think more than likely started some of these posts?

    First you have not fully checked the validity of your sources, or their sources-sources. Which is strike number one. Your lack of research makes your post dull and boring. Wow. Your really upset about their marketing plan, so upset in fact that you decide to post your disgust with it on ANOTHER WEBSITE.

    Regardless of your distaste or not you are doing exactly what you want them to do, you are playing into their hands. They got you sweetheart and they are getting everyone else who decides to jump on and talk about it to. You are helping fuel the flame. So naive to think you would make a difference, you only helped to push them up on google search!!! Idiot.

    Next time say nothing. It will actually help the people out who are really pissed off about it. Like me.

  • Michael La Rosa

    Tris Hussey you bring up several valid points that have been mirrored by several other websites. I must however give you a bit of shit for that horrible “Not” joke that you used in your posting; really ridiculous. If you have not figured it out yet, a lot of movies have been fueled with a distasteful and even grotesque marketing plan. I know exactly how many people are stricken with the loss of a person from their family or even a child. It is disgusting. I fully agree with you. However, utilize that journalism skill you learned in Community College and do a little more research. You will discover that she is not a child. How naive people are, you were so eager to voice your opinion and jump on the band wagon that you didn’t even realize what you had done. Who do you think more than likely started some of these posts?

    First you have not fully checked the validity of your sources, or their sources-sources. Which is strike number one. Your lack of research makes your post dull and boring. Wow. Your really upset about their marketing plan, so upset in fact that you decide to post your disgust with it on ANOTHER WEBSITE.

    Regardless of your distaste or not you are doing exactly what you want them to do, you are playing into their hands. They got you sweetheart and they are getting everyone else who decides to jump on and talk about it to. You are helping fuel the flame. So naive to think you would make a difference, you only helped to push them up on google search!!! Idiot.

    Next time say nothing. It will actually help the people out who are really pissed off about it. Like me.

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  • http://www.larixconsulting.com Tris Hussey

    Michael, you make an excellent point, but I wonder if by shining a light on the issue we can do something.

  • http://www.larixconsulting.com Tris Hussey

    Michael, you make an excellent point, but I wonder if by shining a light on the issue we can do something.

  • A sheep like you

    Well, Tris Hussey what would do you propose we do? I didn’t hear of anybody talking abouty these issues before and all these people seem to think that by blogging about it they can fix it. Well, wtf are you gonna do about it? Are you looking for real missing people? I hope so. I hope after all this you are doing something otherwise you’ve wasted your time and anyone else that reads your blog and the people that started the damn things too.

  • A sheep like you

    Well, Tris Hussey what would do you propose we do? I didn’t hear of anybody talking abouty these issues before and all these people seem to think that by blogging about it they can fix it. Well, wtf are you gonna do about it? Are you looking for real missing people? I hope so. I hope after all this you are doing something otherwise you’ve wasted your time and anyone else that reads your blog and the people that started the damn things too.

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