The Dark Side of Internet Fame Even when using the Internet for the greater good, don’t post everything on the Internet. Jessica Bennett, exposes the bad side of Internet fame. There are hateful websites and mean videos that publicly shame people in life. That use the website to insult people and ruining their name. From using other people’s videos from a long time ago and revising their videos to make it funny; to recreate the video to become famous for attention. Before long everyone will do anything to become Internet famous. Today, it is easy to become famous in a matter of seconds. The article by Jessica Bennett, “The Flip Side of Internet Fame,” explain risks of the Internet and why people who post should exercise caution. There are
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A website called “Yik Yak,” suddenly became popular and spreading around in the high school. Yik Yak is for live feed anonymously of what people are saying. It was supposed to be for college students on college campus. The people at my school used it to spread rumors and talk bad of other people in our school. The website emotionally affected so many students around the school. It kept getting worse when everyone knew about it. My high school was small so news got around fast. Eventually teachers heard about it then eventually the Principle. Next, the whole school had assembly about the website. The consequences of the whole school were that we had no phones the rest of the school year because we couldn’t figure out who wrote all those bad comments. All this gossip demonstrates bad side of social media. It resulted people getting hurt from anonymous comments that my school couldn’t do anything about. Only the people who took action on this situation and preventing it from getting worse. Is it worth it to humiliation another person just for fame? There are people on every website that post embarrassing content. That don’t reflect that a comments are harmful and send a message. To be cyber bullied by random people from a video or a website and can’t doing anything about it. I believe it’s not worth doing it. The problem that we face as a society is that we focus more about social media everyday
A website called “Yik Yak,” suddenly became popular and spreading around in the high school. Yik Yak is for live feed anonymously of what people are saying. It was supposed to be for college students on college campus. The people at my school used it to spread rumors and talk bad of other people in our school. The website emotionally affected so many students around the school. It kept getting worse when everyone knew about it. My high school was small so news got around fast. Eventually teachers heard about it then eventually the Principle. Next, the whole school had assembly about the website. The consequences of the whole school were that we had no phones the rest of the school year because we couldn’t figure out who wrote all those bad comments. All this gossip demonstrates bad side of social media. It resulted people getting hurt from anonymous comments that my school couldn’t do anything about. Only the people who took action on this situation and preventing it from getting worse. Is it worth it to humiliation another person just for fame? There are people on every website that post embarrassing content. That don’t reflect that a comments are harmful and send a message. To be cyber bullied by random people from a video or a website and can’t doing anything about it. I believe it’s not worth doing it. The problem that we face as a society is that we focus more about social media everyday