The Accidental "It" Girl
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Today’s Washington Post runs a front-page (?!) story about Stokke, a high school track star who became a worldwide (maybe just a world wide web wide) star in recent weeks.
According to the Post piece, Stokke’s unwanted ticket to fame was punched when a leering blogger received a picture taken of her at a track meet. All it took was one posting of that picture on a website, along with a “hubba hubba” (I’m not kidding) and things began to unravel.
From her computer at home, Stokke tracked the spread of her image with dismay and disbelief. She had dealt with this once before, when a track fan posted a lewd comment and a picture of her on a message board two years earlier. Stokke had contacted the poster through e-mail and, a few days later, the image had disappeared. But what could she do now, when a search for her name in Yahoo! revealed almost 310,000 hits? "It's not like I could e-mail everybody on the Internet," Stokke said.
