Your Facebook Profile Doesn’t *Really* Matter, Does It?

Buried in this Reuters article is a paragraph stunning in its implications for journalism, even if only by accident:

Kerviel could not be reached for comment. A headshot of him cut from a trading Website showed an earnest-looking young man. At the start of the afternoon, when his identity was revealed, he had 11 friends listed on the facebook.com social website. That number later dropped to four....