It was one thing to have your embarrassing love letter read aloud to the class in elementary school. Its a far different situation when its published on the Internet without your knowledge or consent. Yet that is the premise of a growing number of online "found object" websites, whose amateur creators are mining the worlds gutters for intriguing scraps of paper and strange discarded photographs. Their discoveries are posted online, sometimes with commentary; other times, simply bagged like evidence and labeled "artifact."
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,51307,00.html
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