And now for a question I'd like for you to reflect on. Either comment here or on your blog.
In the news yesterday it was reported that a young student from Rutgers University killed himself because his roommate posted, or rather streamed online live, a private moment the student had in his room. His roommate posted on Twitter encouraging people to view the webcam. The student's roommate did this to him twice. Now, the young man is dead and his roommate is facing jail time. A very sad case, but an important one because it highlights how the new media can be used for harm. It also brings up privacy issues and how do we, as a society, deal with the issue of privacy as many of today's teens are used to sharing a lot of information over the internet. Based on everything we've learned and discussed in class, what are your thoughts on the case?
25 comments:
i think that this article is very sad to hear. i mean like why do people do that??they shouldn't care of what people say.it is really sad to hear those stories. :(
I think that that it is sad to hear and i think that the guy should of just ignore what the other guy posted he should not care what others think and i think that shows that you should never trust anyone like he did .Just because some one says something bad he should of not done that .But i did not know that bullying can get that far and it makes me feel sad and disappointed of what happen there=(
I think its very sad to here storys like these because its sad when it happens to someone.it makes me very sad to hear story like this:(
awww...I think that story was really sad.i cant belive he killed himself just becuase his roomate says or do things to him.The guy shouldn't kiled himself he could of ignored it,face it and move on. i feel bad for the guy who killed himself.
I think thats this article is very sad, and i am glad to here and be consistant of what is going on. This made me be aware of my surroundings.I kinda would not go so far like killing myself if i was in this situataion. i think that i would just of talked to this person and clear things up. i also think that whaqt the teenager did was very bad because this is not being a good friend, and if he did not want to be his friend or for some reason did not like the kid he should of just ignored him and not go as far as causing the poor teenager to kill himself.I give my respect to the victom who is dead:( i believe that the kid who posted the thing about him in the first place should of thought in the first place "do to others as you will like to be treated" this is a very serious situation that should not be brought up because in the first place who would do this?? i dont know but this ere is just wrong and i hope he knows that
I think thats this article is very sad, and i am glad to here and be consistant of what is going on. This made me be aware of my surroundings.I kinda would not go so far like killing myself if i was in this situataion. i think that i would just of talked to this person and clear things up. i also think that whaqt the teenager did was very bad because this is not being a good friend, and if he did not want to be his friend or for some reason did not like the kid he should of just ignored him and not go as far as causing the poor teenager to kill himself.I give my respect to the victom who is dead:( i believe that the kid who posted the thing about him in the first place should of thought in the first place "do to others as you will like to be treated" this is a very serious situation that should not be brought up because in the first place who would do this?? i dont know but this ere is just wrong and i hope he knows that.....
I think that this article is trying to say that the Internet is also used for negative things that people do on it, and I believe that it is fair that the boy go's to jail because he caused the other guy to kill himself from being humiliated. Also, the guys roomate shouldn't have invaded his privacy because he wasen't respecting his roomate and his personal life. What the boy did was wrong and disrespectful.
i think that was very crazy like why was he all in his roomates buisness. I can't really saying anything about it
WOW!! :O this is a very sad case I believe that it was fair that the roomate went to jail and it also made me think that you shouldnt trust others and it also shows that the internet is dangerous and you have to be aware of what others are doing and you also have to be aware of what you post on the internet because it can harn others.
I think it's sad that he listened to other people's mean comments and personally I don't think anyone should care if people are gay , bi , straight or whatever. It sucks to hear more cases about teens killing themselves because of online things.. :/
i think it is very sad because even though the person who did that to his room mate he would of had a punishment,get discovered,or something will happen to him. I also think that the guy should of just ignore the problem and continue on in his future.The story was very sad but i would not kill myself because of that i would just ignore. Also this thought me a lesson of what not to do because its better.
I agree with the people who said that the roommate who made the teenager kill himself went to far and I think that he shouldn't even be posting up his business on twitter or what ever he posted it on. But the teenager who killed himself should of ignored his dumb disrespectful roommate who couldn't get over what happened between him and the teenager who just died.
I agree with the people who said that the roommate who made the teenager kill himself went to far and I think that he shouldn't even be posting up his business on twitter or what ever he posted it on. But the teenager who killed himself should of ignored his dumb disrespectful roommate who couldn't get over what happened between him and the teenager who just died.
i think that is very sad and also very mean of his roomate to post something like that on the internet with out permission and without even thinking of what he was going to do. if that was to happen to me i would just talk to that person and ask why did they did that and of course tell the teacher or who ever is there but i wouldn't just kill myself.
I think that you should respect other peoples privacy. You have to be carefull about what yoou are going to post about other people. You have to see if it will affect them.
I think that this article is very sad and I think that everyone should be aware of everything that is going on and I am thankful that this hasn't happened to me and hopefully it never will. This article has made me be careful of everything that goes on in life and be aware of people who do things like this. If I were in the situation of the teenager I would have probably not harmed my self because I think that it is not a good idea and instead I could have tried to clear things up a little more and tell the teenager who posted it up to stop. I think that what the teenager did was completely wrong because I don't think that the teenager who posted is not a good friend and if the teenager posted it for any other reason it is not nice because probably the teenager wouldn't have liked it if the teenager who killed himself posted something like that over the internet to. I think that the teenager who posted the thing about the other teenager should have first thought that why would he post something like that to someone if probably he was going to get treated bad to. I don't think that what the teenager did to the teenager is being a nice person and not showing that is something correct to do. :)
I think this article is crazy..! Its truly very sad to hear the situation this boys roommates put him in. I think it was really disrespectful and it was really unnessesary. This article also shows what can be possible on the internet. As for the guy going to jail , I think it is very sad that this will be on his record and he will suffer the consequences of this incident.
what i think about this article is sad. what the guy could have done is ignore what the other guy posted. i didn't know that bullying could go that far. this story was sad. the guy should go to jail for that because he post some thing important and made that person kill his self.
i think this article is very sad to hear.Those stories make me sad because of what people do to each other i hope that does not happen to me because if it did i would sad for a long porsion of my life.
This story sad what the the roommate did with that guy posting that he did. But what that guy should of done is to tell a police about it instead of killing him self or ignored it.
Man thats cold. Why did the kid post that in the first place??? He should get charged with murder. A moment of silenc. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ may he REST IN PEACE
I also think that the teenager who caused this situation didn't had to go that far. The teenager knew it wasn't good to do that ,and knew something bad was gonna happen. I think the boy should of just ignored him and not pay attention to the situation. I also think he could of not kill him self and now he could of been living his life peacefuly. This is why you shouldn't trust nobody becuase you never know their intensions. I really feel sorry for the boy becuse of what had happen to him and for the other boy becuase i know it will be on his concious. I think this is a good story to learn from.
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