article_snippet: Under 30 Summit last year .
article_snippet: There is immeasurable humiliation.
article_snippet: It is the feeling that the whole world is laughing at you.
article_snippet: I just thought I would die.'
article_snippet: I [then] lost my public self, or had my public self stolen.
article_snippet: Of course, it was all done on the excruciatingly slow dial up.
article_snippet: Yet around the world this story went. '
article_snippet: this story was a viral phenomenon that, you could argue, was the first moment of truly "social media.