#internet shaming

[lick-my-lit]

Maybe there are two types of people in the world: those who favor humans over ideology, and those who favor ideology over humans. I prefer humans to ideology, but right now the ideologues are winning, and they're creating a stage for constant artificial dramas, where everyone is either a magnificent hero or a sickening villain.

Jon Ronson, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

[elizastrange]

I think a lot about that one post where people express anxiety about possibly being filmed while having a nervous breakdown in public and then having their breakdown posted online.

Naturally, I can no longer find the post because I don't remember what I tagged it, and finding any old tumblr post is a pain.

But I still think that post is relevant

[mitchipedia]

The shame

Monica Lewinsky: ‘The shame sticks to you like tar’ – Jon Ronson, The Guardian

Monica Lewinsky was the first victim of public internet shaming. 20 years later, she’s still struggling with the trauma.

[zmkccommonplace]

I felt like every layer of my skin & my identity were ripped off me in ‘98 & '99…It’s a skinning of sorts…But I also feel like the shame sticks to you like tar

Monica Lewinsky, quoted by Jon Ronson in “Monica Lewinsky - ‘The shame sticks to you like tar’”, The Guardian, 22nd April, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/16/monica-lewinsky-shame-sticks-like-tar-jon-ronson

[zmkccommonplace]

It was a very desolate 10 years for me

Monica Lewinsky, quoted by Jon Ronson in “Monica Lewinsky - ‘The shame sticks to you like tar’”, The Guardian, 22nd April, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/16/monica-lewinsky-shame-sticks-like-tar-jon-ronson

[zmkccommonplace]

I think some young people don’t see suicide as an ending, but as a reset.

Monica Lewinsky, quoted by Jon Ronson in “Monica Lewinsky - ‘The shame sticks to you like tar’”, The Guardian, 22nd April, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/16/monica-lewinsky-shame-sticks-like-tar-jon-ronson

[playdatesonfridays]

What Really Scares Me About Social Media

What Really Scares Me About Social Media

Last week , the below picture went viral all over the media, and I say media because it went beyond Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. It was also on major network news and discussed on the radio.

I am the first to admit that I rolled my eyes at this story. Here it is, yet again, a bunch of young girls more obsessed with taking a selfie than interacting with the real world. But then something…

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[buttercup89]

It’s going to be interesting to see all these kids whose parents shamed them on the internet as punishment grow up. What kind of people are they going to be as a result? How much therapy will they need?