After Jon Ronson’s entertaining, if scary article, Lindsey Stone is back at the top of a Google search. The digital reputation management needs a further tweak.
John Tait
Chesterfield
Last year, I wrote an open letter on Facebook to Michael Gove that went viral. Before I posted, I got a friend to check my profile to see exactly what was public and private. Within a week, my personal photos went public. Luckily, I had lots of support, but it could have gone very wrong. I now have a second account just to check the privacy on my main one.
Lucy Fey
Bristol
I’d love a parody account like Jon Ronson’s. Satire is a healthy response to celebrity, and means you’ve made it into the public consciousness. Come on, man, see it as a tribute.
Dave Clarke
Manchester
Joanna Blythman’s Strange Fruit was a must-read in this age of diet-related illness, where producers promote products with a “natural” image, using misleading descriptions designed to make us believe we’re buying the real thing.
Graham Reed
Thame, Oxfordshire
Blythman says ascorbic acid is “man-made vitamin C ”. No, it is vitamin C, whatever its source. “Artificial vitamin E is commonly derived from petrol”: no, it is the same molecule, with the same biological effect, whether made with or without artifice. The fact that vitamins have E numbers does not make them poison.
Dr David McBrien
Holyport, Berkshire
Emer O’Toole’s list of 10 things feminism has ruined for her derailed at Thomas the Tank Engine. She should try the Ringo Starr-narrated films, featuring some sturdy engines called Mavis and Daisy. OK, Daisy was a bit heavy-handed with her makeup, but no way was Mavis giving in to size zero stereotypes.
Cathy Stillman-Lowe
Twyford, Berkshire
Oliver Burkeman’s 21 February column reminded me of the time I was driving a friend from London to the Norfolk coast. Suddenly she pointed excitedly and exclaimed, “Ooh, look, there are some planes in a field.” We were passing Norwich International.
Alison J Smith
Norwich
The 21 February Experience gave me a big wave of nostalgia; I loved Kinesis’s first album. Glad to hear there was life after music for Conor McGloin, especially because it spat him out so young.
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Was that the Weekend Apocalypse special? The internet is out to get us, lethal fruit salads: run for the hills!
Conor Whitworth
Nottingham
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