Cyberculture
January 23rd, 2008
I came across an article today that talked about 7 suicides within the time period of one year in a small town in Wales. Police and families think the reason lies in a social networking site online.
“Social networking websites could be “romanticising” suicide, an MP claims after the deaths of seven young people from her area in the past year.”(BBC)
here’s the link to the BBC article.
How dangerous is the internet really?
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Wow. When you add this to the story of the thirteen-year-old girl we talked about in class, it truly does demand discussion of these social networking sites. Do they really do more good than harm?
I honestly don’t know, but after all the articles you see on the “dangers of Facebook and MySpace,” one really does have to wonder. And, really, when it all boils down, if these sights didn’t exist, would the activities/bullying/etc that take place on them really stop or just continue in a different forum? Face-to-face, perhaps? Which is worse?
I don’t really have any answers to those questions, but articles like this raise them.