Saturday, April 5, 2008
Juicy Gossip...
In the Herald last week I came across an article about web sites where people are blogging about individuals using their full names. One site is called JuicyCampus.com and someone posted that a student (name included) is having an affair with a professor and getting A's. Another site "DontDateHimGirl.com" gives information about bad potential dates, again names and cities included. And then there is RottenNeighbor.com where names and addresses are included and comments about what horrible neighbors people are - oh and did I mention this one can link you to a satellite view of said neighbors residence? In light of this week's assignment on blogging, I thought this was very timely. Is it ethical to use blogging for these really vindictive and unconstructive reasons? Seems like yet another example of how something that could be used to do such good and foster communication has turned ugly.
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That is the kind of thing I see as abusing a free speech contraption like blogging. It is when people take it too far like that, that other people start to freak out and decide it needs limitations and rules.
It is hard to watch people take something like blogs where free speech is cool and abuse them until noone is able to speak freely anymore cause of rules then made....to watch it and be able to do nothing is really hard :-(
It just goes to show how hard it is to fight to keep our rights!
I do have a problem with JuicyCampus.com...I haven't personally seen it, but I have heard stories about what kind of information is posted online there. I did go to Don'tDateHimGirl.com and actually found it to be quite funny. A lot of the men were only identified by first name, and many did not include pictures. I think both sites are marketed as social networking sites (like Myspace) and these are prone to abuse. But then again, there are those who are using the site responsibly. So I believe it is a matter of regulation, but do you really think this would be the case? I doubt it.
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