Bill Gates’ Daughter - chain mail hoax
Do you think this young lady is
Bill Gates‘ daughter? Many people seemed to think so and the photo has been forwarded around the internet via emails and posted on blogs.
This is purely a time-wasting thing and I am betting a shiny dollar that it is a hoax.
First of all, Gates’ eldest daughter Jennifer Katharine Gates is not quite 12 years old yet (born in 1996). (Note: see bottom of this
Taiwan MSFT page, interestingly the US site has no such info.) And according to this
blogger, the charming lady in the above photo is the actress
Alyson Stoner and the photos in her
official site do show some resemblance.
I think the photos have been forwarded because
Bill Gates is rich, the girl is cute, and the act of
forwarding the picture seems so harmless.
May be I am too allergic to chain emails and internet hoaxes, I think the act of
forwarding chain mails is harmful as it waste our time, spread lies, and teaches us to be very uncritical of things we read, believe, and then pass on. And in this case, a hoax that involves a 12 years old child just seem so wrong, regardless of who the child’s parents are.
The one “possible” side benefit, assuming the lady in the photo is indeed an actress, is that her agent may now have a slightly easier job in getting her new acting assignments as her face is now more familiar with thousands and thousands of people. Even that, if the girl is indeed Alyson, I wonder how she feels about all these misguided attentions?
P.S. Feel free to correct me if I am mistaken in this post. Thanks.














