September 28th

Chapter 3: Does Social Networking Kill?

Clementi’s story:

This was such a sad chapter, I cannot wrap my mind around having to deal with what Tyler Clementi had to deal with.  I understand that he and his roommate went back and forth with rude comments about each other online; however, for Ravi to record Clementi while being intimate with another man is horrible. What Ravi did was feed into the discrimination that Clementi must have had in school. Clementi couldn’t deal with what was recorded and decided to end his life. This is NOT ok, there needs to be more support for people feeling that ending there life is the end to Cyberbullying. Cyberbullying needs to stop taking people’s life away.

Adult Cyber Predators:

My thought on cyber predators is that, parents should have more control of what their children are doing online. Networking on Facebook and Instagram opens the possibility of meeting strangers. There is also an age requirement on Facebook, that I know many parents do not follow.