Gawker Exposes Megan Fox’s Flower-Giver on Facebook

Last week, a very popular photograph circulated of Megan Fox appearantly ignoring a sweet chubby kid trying to give her a flower:

Kodak then announced that it was offering $5000 to anyone who could identify the boy in the photo.

Earlier today, Gawker recieved an email from a young woman claiming to not only know the identity of the young boy but said she was his friend on Facebook.  Eager to confirm this tip, Gawker tried looking up his page but it was set to private.  So, what did Gawker do?

Since the young lad’s Facebook profile was set to private and can only be viewed by his “friends,” we asked Kim to send us some screengrabs of his Facebook page as proof, and she obliged. As you can see from the gallery below, which includes a pic of our boy with one of those little Jonas freaks, it looks as though we may have found the victim of Megan Fox’s smoldering disdain, an 11 year-old Brit named Harvii.

Yup, they posted the whole thing online.  His whole private collection of photos.  All of it.

Now, this is certainly not the first time someone has had their private social media profile published for all the world to see but it is troubling when a major blog, trying to make at least some stab at legitimacy, does it.  We all know that nothing on the web is private but does that mean we should all just disregard anyone’s effort  to even attempt a modicum of privacy.  It’s not like this kid is a legitimate star who’s just asking for attention.

I’d be curious to hear from any lawyers out there if publishing screengrabs of a private Facebook page is in any way a criminal offense.

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  By Matt Enlow, June 25, 2009 @ 11:40 am

  I had the exact same thought. It reminds me of the meme “33 reasons not to put your picture on the internet”, but with more personal ramifications. Certainly this kid doesn’t deserve this sort of attention.

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  By Sheinen, June 30, 2009 @ 4:23 am

  Maybe if he’d made more of an effort!

  A shirt and Jeans would have done him some favours, maybe a hair cut. And that yellow rose was not going to blend well with her complexion from the start! Pick a subtle short stemmed white number and she’d have been all over it!

  Really, the kid wanted attention in the first place, specifically that of Ms Fox. I’m fairly certain he has it now, if not in the manner in which he intended. Shit if he’s lucky her publicity company will organise a get together to repair the tarnish to her reputation!

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  By J..., June 30, 2009 @ 5:05 am

  Are you out of your mind? The more publicity this gets, the better. If this gets enough exposure, you know Megan Fox is going to have to have a photo op with this kid. What more could he have asked for?

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