I agree the internet is great for that—when you think you know all about a person, but you are in every terrible particular wrong

That wasn’t even what The Net was doing, though. When I talk about them having to stack the deck, I mean that they wrote the character so that she had no current friends who’d ever seen her face-to-face (I think she might have had an ex who got killed off by the villains after she went to him for help) and her only living relative had dementia and no longer recognized her; so that when the Big Conspiracy needed to discredit her, they could just alter her info in all databases to “criminal fugitive” and there was no one to say “wait, what? I’ve known her for years, that makes no sense.”