If my spouse's employer tried to confiscate my phone for forensic analysis, they'd have to fish it out of the bottom of Lake Michigan.
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I'm not sure that you would need high-tech AI to recognize that the accounts were all the same person. I think if you monitored 76'ers twitter on a regular basis, the commonalities would become apparent over time. Any high-school English teacher could probably figure it out pretty quickly.
If he didn't share the information with her then how did she manage to disclose it on twitter? I am not sure I actually believe the totality of the facts here, anymore than I believe that it was Wayne Gretzky's wife who had a gambling problem. It just all seems improbable, but whoever did it, it was really, really stupid.
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A wife defends her husband with a few disparaging tweets and he loses his job. All the while, we have a president that can't stop denigrating people on an hourly basis and that's okay. Boy, do we have our priorities screwed up.
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Social media can certainly have its positive benefits, but it’s negative consequences many times can be devastating.
Positive benefits: getting back in touch with long lost friends, making it easier to share things with the people in your life.
Negative consequences: cyber bullying, foreign interference in elections, ideal platform for narcissists, etc., etc.
Right now, Bryan Colangelo and his family are experiencing the negative consequences.
Gotta be careful out there in cyberspace.
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In Seattle sport radio chattered about his future employment possibilities. Front office or...
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Not a very smart lady.
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This is stunningly trivial stuff and only shows how asymmetric social media can be in terms of consequences for people who use it. In the best of all worlds, the tweets in question may have tended to support the sartorial elegance of Mr. Colangelo's choice of shirt collars and additionally,that some of his players are child like. Not a huge gain when compared to losing your job and disrupting your family.
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Or...he's leaving her holding the bag, when they both did it. Misleading headline indeed.
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Social media - anything but “social”. Destroys careers, lives, marriages & democracies. For those foolish enough to engage - you did it to yourself. For those complaining about Trump - Facebook elected him, so if you’re still on FB, then you’re part of the problem.
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Did she?
Or did he throw her under the bus as a ploy to avoid his fate?
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The Colangelo’s like most social media users think that Twitter and Facebook are free. This was a very expensive way to find out everything has a cost.
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This is why you DON'T say things anonymously online that you wouldn't say in person. Because, you CAN be found out. And you make it worse, not better. Sad.
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With a wife like that, who needs enemies?
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The Knicks could use you!
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As a psychologist who has had some involvement with text analysis, my initial impression is that the language used in the messages may more likely be from a male than a female. There is software available to do a detailed and fairly reliable analysis of this sort of thing, though the fact that not all of the messages are reproduced here would substantially reduce the reliability of any conclusion.
Whether the man or his wife wrote the messages is moot at this point since the man has lost his job.
I think the take-away is that we should all assume that the authorship of anything we write or post on-line is knowable, and may be revealed despite our best efforts to remain anonymous.
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Mon Ray - the words themselves may very likely be her husband's, but that doesn't rule out her parroting them on social media. It was still her keystrokes + his words that did him in.
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Actually, I am raising the point that he may have used her phone(s) to type (key in) the messages himself. And, as you point out, a competing explanation is that she wrote the texts as he dictated them.
Wow, it seems awfully easy to make the wife take the fall when it seems rather dubious that she could have had access to this information without her husband being aware of it. It's hard to believe that he was not somehow involved in these Twitter accounts or at least knew of her activity.
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I haven't seen anything positive provided by Twitter for humanity.
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As a psychologist, I have observed that those who post on Twitter, especially those who post anonymously, will say things they would never say directly to an enemy, a loved one, or even a priest or lawyer. Doing so a very bad idea.
In this instance, based on some experience with text analysis I have an initial impression that the language used in the messages may more likely be from a male than a female. There is software available to do a detailed and fairly reliable analysis of this sort of thing, though the fact that not all of the messages are reproduced here would substantially reduce the reliability of any conclusions.
It is also possible that Mr. Colangelo used her phone(s) to type (key in) the texts, or that Mr. Colangelo dictated the messages to his wife and she keyed them in. Who did what and how is moot at this point since Mr. Colangelo has lost his job.
I think the take-away is that we should all assume that the authorship of anything we write or post on-line is knowable, and may be revealed despite our best efforts to remain anonymous.
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It would seem likely he shared some stuff with his wife that he should not have shared. But she proceeded to take that info and, by using it in her crazy comments, managed to ruin his career.
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"We are a family and will work through this together." On the divorce court?
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Nice of his wife to take the fall. I don't doubt that she typed and posted all the tweets. But it's unbelievable to me that she could tweet from multiple accounts *about NBA and the team* without him knowing and supporting her at the very minimum. It's more likely he told her some things knowing that the comments will be shared on twitter.
What's really fascinating is who knew or figured it out and leaked it??
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I think, as with most marriages, he shared work info he shouldn't have shared with his spouse. The she went crazy.
But boy, HE is the one taking the fall. Career in tatters.
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And therein lies the problem with our obsessive use of "social" media...
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"She Defended Her Husband. Now He’s Unemployed."
What a misleading headline. Makes it sound like she was forthright in what she was doing.
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Tempest in a teapot.
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Not if you're an NBA fan
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This is why you gotta keep work life and home life separate. Airing dirty laundry makes the whole room smell.
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“At no point did I purposely or directly share any sensitive, nonpublic, club-related information with her.”
Why do I find this so hard to believe?
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key words "purposely or directly"...pillow talk, an overheard phone conversation, a notebook left open...
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