Friday Protip: Own It, Move On

by Sanya Weathers

One of the more amusing minor internet dramas of today involves a reporter for the Huffington Post getting taken in by one of the more convincing satire sites out there. But it did remind me of one of the most important protips of all time:

If you fall for a satire, a joke, or a scam, own it and forget it.

This reporter is making things so much worse by refusing to laugh at her own expense, and rewriting her published response to make it appear she wasn’t taken in.

In this age of Google cache… don’t bother. Besides, everyone likes a fellow human being.