Comments on: Social Networks' Bad PR Week: Girl Gangs and Snotty Teens

By: rick loughery

rick loughery — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:13:32 +0000

Safe to say that this is a “Law and Order” episode waiting to happen

By: Bernardine Wood-Smothers

Bernardine Wood-Smothers — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:00:45 +0000

There have always been bullies, and gangs of bullies, and torture and torment and it goes largely unnoticed and unaddressed in the dark corners of locker rooms, lunchrooms, bathrooms and behind the bleachers. If this particular group were … um … unwise … enough to record themselves, and that video brought justice and exposure to a serious issue (the issue being youth violence, not social networking), then I think that’s just grand.

Having said that, and not wanting to buck a trend, I blame Facebook and MySpace for global warming, the C I got in science in Grade 4, and recurrent yeast infections.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:48:57 +0000

While it would be nice to get a MySpace page and blame it for all my idiocy, there may be a societal woe that somehow the the social networks need to contend with.

There seems to be a growing trend of people thinking they shouldn’t/won’t be judged for their actions even when they’re made public.

You cite things at the extreme, but all over the social networks and on twitter I see otherwise seemingly reasonable people broadcasting/owning up to serious lapses in judgement…and then expecting not to be judged. I don’t get it.

I don’t get Dr. Phil’s staff bailing out one of the teen harpies in Florida either:

http://ap.google.com/article/A.....wD900Q5P00