Prankster Uses People's Social Media Oversharing to Freak Them Out

For his latest candid camera gag, popularly YouTube prankster Jack Vale decided to freak some strangers out by using their public social media posts to pretend he knows more about them than any random person should.
Hip Mom Tweets During Childbirth
Mary Wycherly is a photographer and former indie rocker. Her husband, Martin Carr, is a songwriter and former frontman of shoegaze band the Boo Radleys. Mary recently gave birth to daughter Sailor. As @marytwocats, she tweeted throughout:
The 'Writing About Yourself' Trap
Remember Lena Chen? She was big on the internet a few years back for being a compulsively oversharing sex blogger while she attended Harvard. Anyhow, she graduated, and stopped sex blogging, and we forgot about her. Now she's back! And we're going to use her story as a peg for some completely unsolicited advice-giving.
Cops Are as Boring as You Are When They Tweet
Police in Manchester, England decided to live-tweet every incident they responded to in a 24-hour period using a special Twitter account. Guess what? Cops' jobs are pretty dull!
Amy Winehouse Calls Her Private Parts a Va-Jew-Jew
The makers of feminine hygiene product Mooncup enlisted the drugged-out singer in their quest to nickname every lady's flower. We thought Amy's parts would have a tougher moniker. Ew, we officially just spent too much time thinking about Winehouse's vagina.
Reality Star Chastises Oversharers, Irony Causes World to Burst Into Flames
Countess LuAnn of Crackerjacks, Real Housewife of New York, thinks Megan Fox's sexual revelations are just too much. "Megan Fox has a tendency to overshare... there is usually an ulterior motive for revealing so much about one's private life." [OK]
What Freelancers Do While You're At Work: Watch Internet Porn
The news that AdultFriendFinder may become the first Internet porn venture to go public is the latest step in the unstoppable mainstreaming of porn. But porn is still the most "Not Safe" of "NSFW" material. Unless you work from home!
Mobster Comes Out of the Closet During Court Appearance
Gambino family hit man Robert Mormando had something to share in court yesterday. He's gay and he wanted everyone who was at his sentencing for involvement in a 2003 shooting to know it.
Oversharing Culture Breaking Point Broken By Anti-Overshare Society
Allen Salkin - the Seymour Hersh of the Styles section - files this weekend on a group of media writers in New York who're meeting in an Murray Hill (?!) penthouse. Old school, but the rub? No twittering, blogging, oversharing.
Ayelet Waldman: Bad Mother, Good Husband-Banger
Ayelet Waldman is smugly married to Michael Chabon and wrote about how fucking her husband is more fun than dealing with her kids, which, let's hope so, right? She's written a book about her pain!
The Web at 20: Not Quite Old Enough to Drink, Yet Drives Us to It
Dear important scientist Tim Berners-Lee: Thank you for inventing the World Wide Web 20 years ago. It's really great and stuff! But were you aware of the crimes committed in your name?
Do Not Think About Possible Jakob Lodwick Sex Pics
Internet fameball and brand new blogger Jake Lodwick maybe posted a sex picture of himself? Unfortunately we are obligated by fate to bring this to you. Compare and contrast if you want to (don't):
Fergie And Josh Duhamel Take You Inside Their Wedding, Bed
Someday, Fergie and Josh Duhamel may have an inquisitive, precocious child who asks, "What was your wedding night like? How was the sex?" And Fergie will answer, "Why tell you when we can show you?"
John Doerr to startup CEOs: Be more like Scoble
Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist John Doerr is the guy everyone vaguely remembers as being important a decade ago but can't recall anything he's funded recently besides Friendster. Even so, he's full of advice for entrepreneurs — so full of advice that his 10 tips for startups spilled over to 11. The 11th tip:…
Kim Kardashian On Her Breasts: They're Real, and They're Spectacularly Inappropriate
Bloggers may face perilous, uncertain futures these days — but not Kim Kardashian! The reality star and Dancing with the Stars bootee has taken to the blogging format like a badonkadonked fish in water. First, Kardashian used her forum to dispute the automobile allegations made against her by a Defamer tipster, and…
