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Goddamned Facebook!! Creating environments filled with unintended consequences everyday of the week. There are so many untrained, misguided, semi-literate peop

by ulli 10y ago

Goddamned Facebook!! Creating environments filled with unintended consequences everyday of the week. There are so many untrained, misguided, semi-literate people in the world, who just get thrown into these environments totally unprepared. It literally sickens me. Sorry I woke up today morning to read this - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/salem/21-yr-old-woman-commits-suicide-after-morphed-photo-appears-on-Facebook/articleshow/52948971.cms http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/salem/21-yr-old-woma... Parents get blamed. Police get blamed. Govts get blamed. Blame goes around. People get defensive rather than constructive. What a mess! Seriously how the fuck is anyone supposed to be prepared technically and socially to deal with this stuff?

9935c101ab17a66 10y ago
If you don't think the result of this was intended by the people who doctored and posted the photos, you're naive. It's a huge stretch to pin deliberate harassment and incredibly strict cultural mores on facebook. I'm not saying no one is to blame, and that this should ever happen, but laying all the responsibility at the feet of facebook is naive and frankly duplicitous
jasonkostempski 10y ago
That's a shitty story, but blaming Facebook for it seems a bit of a stretch. By that logic, photo editing software is responsible; computers; electricity, etc. A horrible society is definitley responsible for that one.
- tdkl 10y ago
  Yes, horrible society that overvalues a social networking site in every aspect in our lives.