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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nYou probably remember the photo above from back in November 2012<\/a> when we made Lindsey Stone a household name for a week or so when she was being Facebook stupid. The UK’s Daily Mail<\/a> caught up with her to see what she’s been up to since the hoopla died down.<\/p>\n As part of an experiment in reputation management services, Ronson set up Stone with the company reputation.com to rehabilitate Stone’s online image.<\/p>\n ‘They call me every week, week after week,’ according to Stone, and submit social media posts for her approval intended to improve the neutral pages that show up under her Google searches.<\/p>\n After almost a year of sending resumes to employers and receiving no response for employment, Stone says she was hired to work with autistic children. <\/p>\n ‘But I’m terrified’ of her employers finding the photo, Stone said, and feels trapped because she can’t simply ask whether they’ve seen it and simply don’t care.<\/p>\n […]<\/p>\n ‘Since it happened, I haven\u2019t tried to date anybody. How much do you let a new person into your life? Do they already know?’ <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Honestly, I just threw the picture up on the blog, along with her comments and I never expected it to go viral like it did. I never expected, nor wanted, her to get fired. Reporters I talked to after she was fired were disappointed that I felt that way and scores of interviews that I did afterward were not published when the reporters discovered that I wasn’t some wild-eyed lunatic calling for her blood or demanding that she be burned at the stake. There are certainly more people on our Stolen Valor<\/a> page that need more attention than some ditz trying to be funny on her Facebook page.<\/p>\n I feel the same way about the Secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department and Brian Williams – they don’t need to lose their jobs. We now know their nature and that’s more useful to us than their firings. Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know. But, your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n I hope Ms. Stone gets her life back together and I hope her pride in being a self-described douchebag has been tempered.<\/p>\n Thanks to Dave for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"